Photos: Deconstruction of an Old VCR

Photos: Camera Fun with Pack 135

One digital camera, with f=8.0 and exposure times of 15 or 30 seconds PLUS 45 Cub Scouts, most with flash lights =

Photos: O'Shogatsu (Japanese New Year) Celebration at the Boston Children's Museum

Photos: Cub Scout Museum of Science Sleepover

Photos: Winter Solstice and Egyptology

Katie had two school events this past week, the Winter Solstice Festival (complete with boar's head and George and the Dragon), and her Egyptology open house - the fifth grade's in-depth country study this year is Egypt and China. Katie's project was on Osiris.

Advanced, Rapid DNA Diagnostics

My old company, Network Biosystems, has been on tear in getting research dollars to advance its platform in rapid DNA sequencing for diagnostics. This includes a recent $3.8M grant from the National Institutes of Health to develop rapid diagnostics to be used in the treatment of Chlamydia trachomatis infections, the leading cause of preventable blindness and bacterial sexually transmitted disease (STD).

The new technique will have the capacity to provide the truest snapshot to date of the actual incidence of this silent but global epidemic, while simultaneously providing the opportunity to treat infections on a case-by-case basis and adapt the treatment if it doesn’t work.

“It’s going to provide an unprecedented opportunity to detect chlaymdial infections in real time and treat them effectively so that we can start to decrease the tremendous global burden of this insidious bacteria..."

Happy New Year!

Photos from Boston's First Night Parade:












Our traditional New Year's Eve chocolate fondue