CRISPR

New app uses IBM blockchain to protect your right to your data

VENTUREBEAT: Imagine opening your mailbox and receiving a paper deed, proclaiming your legal ownership to every piece of digital, medical and locational data you have ever generated. Now imagine that paper deed has the blockchain technology behind it to allow you to protect or lease that data to any organization seeking its use. A new app out by Hu-manity.co is claiming to do just that for users who download the #My31

Roosevelt High School graduate to be featured on “60 Minutes”

An Iowa high school alumni and MIT geneticist will be a featured expert this Sunday on the national news program “60 Minutes” during a segment explaining CRISPR technology. Feng Zhang is a 2000 graduate of Roosevelt High School now working for Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Des Moines Register reports. Zhang and his research team were named as the 2017 recipients of the $500,000 Lemelson-MIT prize