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Science Behind U.S.’s Deadliest Diseases
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303612804577531092453590070.html

http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2011/3/105332-twitter-as-medium-and-message/fulltext

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/12/health/research/rare-gene-mutation-is-found-to-stave-off-alzheimers.html?pagewanted=all

Slight Yale connection & lots of NYC shots, incl. the protagonists’ apartments on 210 Riverside
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friends_with_Kids

http://www.nature.com/scientificamerican/journal/v306/n6/full/scientificamerican0612-30.html

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=human-brain-project-digital-simulation-neuron

Nice article about “flavorists” and how they are searching for “white areas” of unplumbed taste. Appears the tongue just gets the basic things (sweet, salty, bitter, sour & “umani” from <30 receptors) while smelling the volatile compounds in food (using >300 olfactory receptors) accounts for most of their taste.
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/11/23/091123fa_fact_khatchadourian

2 review of 2 different cameras.
http://www.cameralabs.com/reviews/Sony_Alpha_NEX_7/
http://www.suntimes.com/news/nato/12756446-418/panasonic-gx1-compact-but-precise.html

2 review of 2 different cameras.
http://www.suntimes.com/news/nato/12756446-418/panasonic-gx1-compact-but-precise.html http://www.cameralabs.com/reviews/Sony_Alpha_NEX_7/

http://www.cell.com/retrieve/pii/S009286741200640X?cc=y
Transcribed pgenes perhaps acting as ceRNAs very tissue specific, in a variety of cancers
Most less conservative threshold on calling transcription than in encodeprodpgenes