Elon Musk has often been compared to Tony Stark. The billionaire entrepreneur is the brains behind SpaceX's reusable rockets, Tesla's electric cars, and the solar power provider SolarCity. But last night when comedian Stephen Colbert pressed Musk to decide whether he's a superhero or a supervillain, Musk was evasive.
Biotech entrepreneur Jonathan Rothberg is working on a handheld ultrasound device that can replace the big machines hospitals use today to check on growing fetuses, evaluate tumors, and more. Plug the device into a smartphone, hold it up to a person's body, and you'll get a window-like view of what's inside, the device's patent promises.
J. Craig Venter, the scientist and entrepreneur involved in the first sequencing of the human genome and the first synthetic cell, today announced a typically ambitious project: tack another few decades onto everyone's lives through the largest human genome-sequencing project ever conceived. (Y'know, relatively typical.)
