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warech

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About warech

Hi, I'm Chris Ware. I'm an engineer at a medical device company in Boston, interested in biomedical engineering, bioinformatics and entrepreneurship in the "life science and diagnostics" space.

Recent public activity

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    Comment #7198103

    Precisely. Within ISO 9001/13485 certified companies, an individual (usually head of quality/regulatory) is designated the Quality System Management Representative. This individual…

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    Comment #6999804

    Not math but could be interesting anyway: Genomics, specifically quality engineering. When hiring for my team we ask candidates to generally describe 1) DNA translation and 2) stat…

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    Comment #5300072

    As personalized medicine becomes more mainstream, it will be important to use accurate terminology in general overviews like OP's website. For example, 23andme does not provide DNA…

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    Comment #4854417

    That is not the definition of abuse. Per DSM-IV criteria for substance abuse addiciton: "One of the following must be present within a 12 month period: (1) recurrent use resulting …

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    Comment #4291159

    First Github, then Meteor. As Peter Levine pointed out in his blog ( http://peter.a16z.com/2012/07/25/meteor-magic/ ) Andreessen Horowitz is making strides towards "help[ing] devel…

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    Comment #4282017

    I completely agree with your point, also made in the article: It would be not be surprising if some of these baccalaureate APMs wind up at Yahoo. As the article pointed out, howeve…

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    Comment #4281868

    Implementing a rotational leadership program in the mold of GE, Nielsen, Abbot Labs, et al was definitely a great accomplishment for Mayer. I would hesitate, however, to call this …

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    Comment #4265784

    This tagline is misleading. A single paragraph discusses "How Yahoo kept it all under wraps" while the rest of the article is an also-ran discussion about Mayer's potential success…

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    Comment #4257724

    "Xiaomi appears to have hit a sweet spot in the market, selling high-spec devices that compete with the iPhone on quality, but undercut it substantially in price" This strategy fol…

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    Comment #4013801

    FDA requirements for electronic data transmission (21 CFR Part 11) are a hassle to implement even for devices starting from a blank slate. That being said the sooner NTP standards …

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    Comment #4008614

    You have the order wrong. Gene alteration + reproduction -> evolution, rather than evolution causing gene alteration. You're right about the rate and general harmlessness of plant …

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    Comment #3894607

    See: Northern California( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_California ), South Jersey ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Jersey ), etc.

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    Comment #3775735

    I'm surprised the DoD is spending as little as $250MM on this type of Big Data/AI research. Most of the technology outlined in Lemnois' memo is interesting and exciting, rather tha…

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    Comment #3441221

    I would recommend monitoring for specific hazards. To satisfy New York State Department of Health standards, my laboratory must perform biannual hazard exposure monitoring for all …

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    Comment #3321435

    Are there any graphics in the works? It's fun to click around with as-is, but would be a much better learning tool if one could see the sugar chains be broken down etc. Maybe a fla…

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    Comment #2913013

    This is a link to the full text: http://extremelongevity.net/wp-content/uploads/als_discovery... I'm hesitant to put too much hope in this discovery. I would expect a discovery of …

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    Mythbuster: Does Tech have a faster time to exit vs Biotech?

    Compares time to exit via IPO for the venture-backed life science industry vs the venture-backed tech industry. As I commented in the article, I'd be very interested to see time to…