







Leading Research Hospital Spins Out a For-Profit Company to Bring Gene Therapy To Market
Gene therapy, in which DNA is administered to patients in hopes of triggering a fix for genetic diseases, was one of many potential medical applications for the big, expensive sequencing projects of the 1990s that were...



Doctors Faced With Rare or Difficult Cancers Can Just ‘Google’ Genetic Treatments
Since DNA sequencing began in the 1990s, one of its greatest promises has been that doctors treating cancer could sequence a tumor’s DNA, plug the results into a computer and print out a list of the medications most...


Gratafy Lets You Send Food & Drink Gifts To Friends Using Just Their Email Or Phone Number
Starting today, you can send your friends and family members gifts using only their email address or phone number. This new trick comes from Gratafy, a Seattle-based social gifting platform launched last year, which...


Custom memory allocation is not possible in standard C
I’ve recently been perusing the C’11 standard final draft, mostly hoping to find some resolutions to the various inconsistencies and problems I’ve noted previously with the C99 standard (with no real success). In particular I read section 7.22.3 (C11; 7.20.3 in C99), which discusses the malloc family of functions: The pointer returned if the allocation succeeds is suitably aligned so that it may be assigned to a pointer to any...



