Archive for February, 2013

Influential Few Predict Behavior of the Many: Scientific American

Thursday, February 28th, 2013

QT:” looked at the entire human metabolic network and found that concentrations of about 10 percent of the body’s 2,763 metabolites could be used to determine the levels of all the rest.”

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=influential-few-predict-behavior

Junk no more > Features > Winter 2013 | Yale Medicine

Thursday, February 28th, 2013

http://yalemedicine.yale.edu/winter2013//features/feature/145468 Yale scientists played a leading role in an international effort to map the 99 percent of the human genome that doesn’t produce
proteins—perhaps ending the notion that those regions are “junk.” By Colleen Shaddox

Big biology: The ’omes puzzle : Nature News & Comment

Thursday, February 28th, 2013

http://www.nature.com/news/big-biology-the-omes-puzzle-1.12484?WT.ec_id=NATURE-20130228 Where once there was the genome, now there are thousands of ’omes. Nature goes in search of the ones that matter.
by Monya Baker
27 February 2013

circRNAs can be functionally important

Thursday, February 28th, 2013

Old idea or miRNS sponging applied to a new class of RNAs — circRNAs
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature11993.html?WT.ec_id=NATURE-20130228

Nature advocates communication guidelines

Monday, February 25th, 2013

http://www.nature.com/news/redefine-misconduct-as-distorted-reporting-1.12411 a nice jumping off point for supplemental materials guidelines.

Predicting the Binding Patterns of Hub Proteins: A Study Using Yeast Protein Interaction Networks

Sunday, February 24th, 2013

used the singlish/multi concept. Then used machine learning to predict whether a protein is singlish or multi

PLOS ONE
http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0056833
Taner Z. Sen

Ask Well: The Nutrients in Fruits and Veggies – NYTimes.com

Saturday, February 23rd, 2013

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/02/22/ask-well-the-nutrients-in-fruits-and-veggies/

White House announces new US open access policy

Saturday, February 23rd, 2013

http://blogs.nature.com/news/2013/02/us-white-house-announces-open-access-policy.html

The five most promising new cancer treatments – health – 16 October 2012 – New Scientist

Tuesday, February 19th, 2013

rnai, immuno, bact, viruses, nano

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21628861.800-the-five-most-promising-new-cancer-treatments.html?page=3

Studying Recent Human Evolution at the Genetic Level – NYTimes.com

Tuesday, February 19th, 2013

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/15/science/studying-recent-human-evolution-at-the-genetic-level.html