GAIA-X: Thorny Path to Live Up to High Hopes

Inter-operable digital flows, escape of lock-in contracts, and data sovereignty are most needed in economies where centralised cloud operators define what customers receive. The European GAIA-X initiative is gaining momentum by moving closer to the EU decision centre and providing first benefits to decentralised networks in Europe, but hyperscalers are not bystanders, and competing governments pamper their flagship companies. What’s up? An enquiry by B2Bioworld, and an interview with GAIA-X of Brussels.Read more ...

Human Voices Revalued

Time is mature to unearth the treasure trove of vocal biomarkers. Digital platform brokers and their followers demonstrate what is already possible in health care, if implementing existing technologies, getting consent, and fusing data from doctors’ records, browsers, smartphones and IoT-devices.The latest move is the COVID-19 bet to expand further the emerging market segment. A multi-million project at Luxembourg sets out to avoid mistakes of forerunners, but is struggling with its own weaknesses.Read more ...

Paradoxes and other dysfunctional cases. How autonomous driving works

Mario Trapp, Executive Director of Fraunhofer Institute for Cognitive Systems discusses responses of technical systems to rare, unusual, even unknown traffic constellations which require context-sensitive sense-makingRead more ...

Biology meets Physics

Alain Aspect, Nobel Laureate in Physics 2022

Alain Aspect, Nobel Laureate in Physics 2022 on interfaces between Physics <> Information <> Biology. Read more ...

Systems Biology Applied

Rudi Balling on the need of system theory thinking in using technologies and pitfalls with loose conceptsRead more ...

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The Tractor As Smartphone

CO2 as resource for specialty chemicals: What makes it difficult for industry

Listeria Research Today and Tomorrow

Plant Genetic Engineering: ”It’s not as simple as Yes or No !”

Autochthon Biotechnology

System Biology In Search of Good Questions

Laboratory Environments and Science

Patenting Stem Cells – Behind the Front Stages

Thinking Further About Stem Cells - Viewed from Systems Biology

Strategic ambiguities with "stem cells"

Syngenta: Getting Past Partisan Wars about GM-Plants

Clinical Microfluidics: Sample in – Results out?

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Inside the DNA Machine

Climate-friendly Biojet Fuels in Civil and Military Aviation Engine Development

Learning Fitted to Technologies, or Technologies for Learning

TALEs, Zinc Fingers, or Meganucleases - still competitive with CRISPrs

Stem Cells: a discovery tool and a potential therapeutic modality

Handling Suppliers of Mass Spectrometers Delicately

Stem Cells and Vaccines in Biomanufacturing

Sanofi: Triggering Regenerative Functions

Laboratory Automation Standards... If users have to adopt it

Thermo's BRIMS-Strategy Under Testing

Shift in Cancer Research Translation

AI-enabled Digital Pathology: Correlate anything with everything?

Sekisui Chemicals Taps Syngas Expertise Close to Evonik