A mind blowing tour of HudsonAlpha Friday
A mind blowing tour of HudsonAlpha Friday
Linda and I were treated to a mind bloging tour of the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology in Huntsville Friday. I knew almost nothing about the institute other than lots of very smart folks doing really good work in a really beautiful modern buildings "over there". Well, I was right I guess, but my understanding needed only to be magnified/multiplied significantly.
Holly Ralston, HudsonAlpha's Communications Director tried her best to explain what the heck's going on over there. Here's a summary:
1) Beautiful modern, architecture quite conducive to creative "thinking" and "doing"
2) It's full of folks doing amazing work. I understand almost nothing about it. But I heard words like genomes, aneuploidy, dna - ok, that's about all I retained here. And that's because of;
3) The amazing good these guys are doing. They are doing research to - well - make the world a better place. Cancer research, alternate fuel research! Wow. I really had no idea this was going on right down the road in Linda's hometown of
