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	<title>Sonia Arrison</title>
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		<title>Disease Cause Is Pinpointed With Genome</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The NYT has a great story today about how the genome can be used to identify the cause of disease.  Read more here.
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		<link>http://www.soniaarrison.com/blog/2010/03/11/disease-cause-is-pinpointed-with-genome/</link>
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		<title>Ever wondered what Singularity University is like?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here is a fantastic article in CNET News today describing one student&#8217;s journey.  The &#8220;student&#8221; in question is Rob Nail, an entrepreneur who &#8220;helped start Velocity11, which built robotics and automation equipment for cancer research and drug discovery, and as its CEO, he grew it to $50 million in sales and membership on several [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.soniaarrison.com/blog/2010/03/02/ever-wondered-what-singularity-university-is-like/</link>
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		<title>New surgical bone screw biodegrades in two years</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From CNET News:
&#8220;This month, researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Applied Materials Research  (IFAM) in Bremen, Germany, are unveiling a new type of screw that not only biodegrades within two years but actually encourages bone growth into the implant itself so as not to leave gaping holes where the screws used [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.soniaarrison.com/blog/2010/03/01/new-surgical-bone-screw-biodegrades-in-two-years/</link>
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		<title>Organ printing industry moves forward</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Scientists have been experimenting with &#8220;printing&#8221; various types of human tissue for years now, often using their own tricked-out devices.  The Economist has a great article on a company that is now making printers specifically for this purpose.  In addition, over at the Singularity Hub, there is a nice discussion of some of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.soniaarrison.com/blog/2010/02/23/organ-printing-industry-moves-forward/</link>
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		<title>DIY genetic engineering</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Great article on the topic from the NYT.  This sentence is of interest:
Ideally you wouldn’t even need to know anything about DNA to
manipulate it, just as a 5-year-old doesn’t need to understand the
chemical composition of the plastic in his Legos to build a fortress
on the living-room carpet.
We will soon be living in a much [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.soniaarrison.com/blog/2010/02/15/diy-genetic-engineering/</link>
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		<title>On my way to TED</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m looking forward to attending the TED2010 conference this week in Long Beach.  If you&#8217;re going, I recommend hitting all the Singularity University events, one of which I&#8217;ll be leading on Friday at 12:45 in the Dome (topic is how exponential advances in technology will affect the future of social communications). 
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		<link>http://www.soniaarrison.com/blog/2010/02/09/on-my-way-to-ted/</link>
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		<title>Does the government have your baby’s DNA?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here’s a rather disturbing article published by CNN today.  Apparently, many “states mandate that newborns be tested for anywhere between 28 and 54 different conditions, and the DNA samples are stored in state labs for anywhere from three months to indefinitely, depending on the state.”
I live in California and we did have our baby [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.soniaarrison.com/blog/2010/02/04/does-the-government-have-your-baby%e2%80%99s-dna/</link>
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		<title>New Star Trek game</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Oh boy!

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		<link>http://www.soniaarrison.com/blog/2010/02/02/new-star-trek-game/</link>
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		<title>Regrowing organs &#8212; the video</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is an excellent video of Anthony Atala of the Wake Forest Regenerative Medicine center.  Regrowing organs is a therapy that has already been done in test cases and isn&#8217;t too far away from becoming mainstream.

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		<link>http://www.soniaarrison.com/blog/2010/01/29/regrowing-organs-the-video/</link>
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		<title>YouTube meets econ 101 — Keynes &amp; Hayek rap it out</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Spike TV’s John Papola and GMU economics professor Russell Roberts teamed up to create an exceptional and entertaining “rap video” pitting John Maynard Keynes against F. A. Hayek.  If you ever wondered what would happen if the two famous economists went out drinking together, here’s one answer.  Now, this is a great use [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.soniaarrison.com/blog/2010/01/28/youtube-meets-econ-101-%e2%80%94-keynes-hayek-rap-it-out/</link>
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