In this Op-ed publication on amNY, Nancy J Kelley and Peter Schubert envision New York as a 21st-century Renaissance city that leads the country and the world in artistic creation and scientific innovation. Art and science have been intertwined since the beginning of human history. …
Science Will Reanimate New York City
Crain’s New York Business recently featured an Op-ed by Nancy J Kelley and Peter Schubert identifiying a bold strategy that taps into the regions scientific institutions, life sciences and technology companies, and top talent to form a coalition of science that could lead the country …
The Century of Biology – Keynote by Nancy J Kelley
Early in this decade, two giants of biology and technology, Craig Venter and Steve Jobs made predictions for the coming century. “If the 20th century was the century of physics,” Craig Venter said, “the 21st century will be the century of biology.” Steve Jobs agreed. …
First Ever NYC Life Science Real Estate Symposium
The First Annual Life Sciences 2018 Real Estate Development Symposium attended by more than 250 participants was held June 12, 2018 for real estate, design and life science professionals at The New York Academy of Sciences in New York City. Over 250 scientists, biotech, real estate, …
Photo Gallery of GP-write Meeting 2018
GP-write Scientific Working Meeting was held at the Joseph P Martin Conference Center at Harvard Medical School in Boston, MA. Since the May, 2017 meeting, the following nine working groups have been working hard on their charters, roadmaps and white papers and the Scientific Executive Committee has …
GP-write Announces ‘Ultra-safe Cells’ as Featured Community Project
Richard Feynman said, “What I cannot create, I do not understand.” While the sequence of the human genome has been known for nearly 20 years, many mysteries in life’s recipe book remain to be solved. That’s why the leadership of Genome Project-write (GP-write), a project …
Photo Gallery of GP-write Meeting 2017
The second GP-write annual meeting was held on May 9th and 10th, 2017, at the New York Genome Center in New York City. This meeting explored the concrete steps that GP-write can take to solve some of the most important problems facing humanity, including how …
From the NYU Langone Medical Center’s Genome Foundry
Jef Boeke on the process of analyzing yeast colonies used to assemble chromosomes in the GenomeFoundry at NYU Langone Center.
Building a Genome from Scratch: Lessons Learned from Sc2.0
If anyone understands the challenges associated with powering a eukaryotic cell with a designer genome built from scratch, it’s Leslie Mitchell, a postdoc in Jef Boeke’s lab at NYU. Mitchell has been leading experimental design and technological development for the Synthetic Yeast Genome Project (Sc2.0) since 2012. In this …