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UK AAA=> AA1. Worrisome.
http://www.economist.com/blogs/buttonwood/2013/02/downgrading-britain

http://gencodegenes.wordpress.com/2013/03/01/on-the-annotation-of-functionality-in-gencode-or-our-continuing-efforts-to-understand-how-a-television-set-works/

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 2013Contains an interesting ‘omes crossword

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2013/feb/20/breakthrough-prize-silicon-valley-entrepreneurs Lander, Botstein, Vogelstein and Cornelia Bargmann…Lewis Cantley, "I almost fell over. I didn’t even know this prize existed." He turned 64 on Wednesday.

http://www.nature.com/news/prize-drawback-1.12492

a very large number
https://twitter.com/nytimes/nyt-journalists/members?smid=tw-nytimes

Galileo as a difficult person !
http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/2013/02/11/130211crat_atlarge_gopnik

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/01/health/study-finds-genetic-risk-factors-shared-by-5-psychiatric-disorders.html

Two papers in Science talking about recurrent mutations in TERT promoter in melanoma.

1) http://www.sciencemag.org/content/339/6122/957.full
Highly Recurrent TERT Promoter Mutations in Human Melanoma
Franklin W. Huang1,2,3,* Eran Hodis1,3,4,*,Mary Jue Xu1,3,4,Gregory V. Kryukov1,Lynda Chin5,6,Levi A. Garraway1,2,3,†

2) http://www.sciencemag.org/content/339/6122/959.full
TERT Promoter Mutations in Familial and Sporadic Melanoma
Susanne Horn1,2,Adina Figl1,2,P. Sivaramakrishna Rachakonda1,Christine Fischer3,Antje Sucker2,Andreas Gast1,2,Stephanie Kadel1,2,Iris Moll2,Eduardo Nagore4,Kari Hemminki1,5,Dirk Schadendorf2,*,†,Rajiv Kumar1,*,†

http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2013-02/fracas-over-project-encode-and-why-big-science-and-small-science-are-different