Archive for September, 2012
3 part NPR series on the $1000 genome
Wednesday, September 26th, 2012Dissecting the genomic complexity underlying medulloblastoma : Nature : Nature Publishing Group
Wednesday, September 26th, 2012http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v488/n7409/full/nature11284.html
Appears there’s germline variant calls (from JK) for potentially ~125 matched pairs
Blurring cheating and collaboration | Yale Daily News
Wednesday, September 26th, 2012http://www.yaledailynews.com/news/2012/sep/11/blurring-cheating-collaboration/ Useful to keep in mind when assigning collaborative projects
ScienceDirect.com – New Scientist – Worth the paper it’s on?
Wednesday, September 26th, 2012http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0262407912623768
in one study drug companies couldn’t replicate 47 of 53 studies
A brief history of the human genome – life – 17 September 2012 – New Scientist
Wednesday, September 26th, 2012http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21528826.200-a-brief-history-of-the-human-genome.html
mitochondria as the answer to a SA-to-Vol energy production puzzle introns as the remnants of self-splicing transposons from mitochondria
Blurring cheating and collaboration | Yale Daily News
Tuesday, September 25th, 2012I found a photo taken from a Google office which I find fascinating. What is this? – Quora
Tuesday, September 25th, 2012http://www.quora.com/I-found-a-photo-taken-from-a-Google-office-which-I-find-fascinating-What-is-this
QT:
“…photo of an Energy Pod, a product designed to allow employees to take naps while efficiently using the space of a typically crowded office building…”
Most of what you read was wrong: how press releases rewrote scientific history | Ars Technica
Tuesday, September 25th, 2012http://arstechnica.com/staff/2012/09/most-of-what-you-read-was-wrong-how-press-releases-rewrote-scientific-history Good words about pseudogene PR from WTSI