Summary Illumina and its short reading technology pushed the sequencing costs down during the last decade. Long reads and artificial intelligence are improving the sequencing and will likely keep driving the costs lower. Several companies are building business models around these technological improvements. The past decades brought us the foundational work that will enable significant… Read More The Brave New Genomic World

(Photo credit: BTC Keychain) The Gamestop debacle showed us a couple of things. First, intermediaries in our centralized financial system might have been cheating. The number of short positions in Gamestop suggests that funds and brokers have been practicing naked short-selling. Meaning that they haven’t been selling loaned shares, instead, they’ve been selling shares that… Read More The WSB storm opened the door to mainstream decentralized finance (DeFi)