Sage Bionetworks
Stephen Friend has published a short editorial/review on the Sage Commons Congress in the new journal Science Translational Medicine.  It connects Sage Bionetworks’ vision and mission with the activities of the April meeting.  Free access is available on the Sage Bionetworks News page.

Nature Biotechnology continues to follow new industry trends in its July 2010 issue.  Stephen Strauss contributed an article entitled, “Pharma Embraces Open Source Models” that highlights Sage’s progressive pharmaceutical partnerships.

DIY Genomics
The fledgling Direct to Consumer (DTC) genomics industry encountered a congressional tempest in Washington DC last week with the release of a highly critical GAO report and subsequent committee hearings.  The report is available on line and there are several insightful commentaries from National Public Radio, Natasha Singer in The New York Times, Dan Vorhaus, Daniel MacArthur and David Ewing Duncan in Fortune.com as well as a rebuttal from 23 and me.

Videos of most Sage Commons Congress Presentations are now available on the presentations page of the Sage Congress web site.  The April 2010 event in San Francisco was a huge success and the videos capture the excitement of the first Sage Commons Congress.    You may view streaming video from fora.tv or download the video files directly to your computer and view them with a suitably equipped web browser or a flash viewer.

PDF copies of most of the presentations are also available for downloading.  For more information or to learn how you can get involved please contact info@sagebase.org.