Digest 7/30/23
Surveying great inventors and businesses
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Cepheid:
- Founded in 1996 by Thomas Gutshall, Bill McMillan & Kurt Petersen
- To use microfluidics for rapid PCR detection
- Pioneered point-of-care diagnostics with their GeneXpert product line
- With over 36K installed systems worldwide
- Acquired by Danaher for $4B in 2016
Deep mutational scanning highlights a new role for cytosolic regions in Hrd1 function led by Brian Peterson from the Ryan Baldridge lab https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.04.03.535444v1
Scientist Stories: Jesse Bloom, Evolution of Viruses
"It is not the strongest of the species that survives, not the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change."
- Charles Darwin
