Archive for September, 2013

Systematic identification of trans eQTLs as putative drivers of known disease associations

Sunday, September 15th, 2013

http://www.nature.com/ng/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/ng.2756.html

“They found SNPs that regulate one gene (Ikaros) in different cell types, meaning they found different cis-regulatory regions for a single gene, that map to different pathways…. they used the cell-type specific information from ENCODE data.”

The Virtues of Twitter’s Confidential I.P.O. Filing : The New Yorker

Saturday, September 14th, 2013

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/currency/2013/09/the-virtues-of-twitters-confidential-ipo-filing.html

Ray Dolby, 80, Put Passion Into Inventing Technologies for Sound Clarity – WSJ.com

Saturday, September 14th, 2013

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324755104579071643240575178.html?mod=wsj_share_tweet

How Chris McCandless Died : The New Yorker

Saturday, September 14th, 2013

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2013/09/how-chris-mccandless-died.html?mbid=social_retweet

Political power on two wheels: Don’t mess with the bikers! – Salon.com

Saturday, September 14th, 2013

Political power on two wheels: Don’t mess with the bikers! #Bike v car in cities. Who should
win?http://www.salon.com/2013/09/07/political_power_on_two_wheels_dont_mess_with_the_bikers via @mattglidden

EyeNetra Aims to Shake Up Optometry with Financing from Vinod Khosla | MIT Technology Review

Friday, September 13th, 2013

http://www.technologyreview.com/news/518891/when-smartphones-do-a-doctors-job/?utm_campaign=socialsync&utm_medium=social-post&utm_source=twitter

Plenty of firefighters, but where are the fires? – Ideas – The Boston Globe

Friday, September 13th, 2013

Plenty of #firefighters, but where are the fires? ’75 to ’13 fires fall 417 to 40 but budget up >$43M http://b.globe.com/1663JzQ MT @DelMarbrook

http://www.bostonglobe.com/ideas/2013/09/07/plenty-firefighters-but-where-are-fires/isCPrIPauX078UKHdixu0K/story.html?camp=id

Papers about retroduplications (variable pseudogenes)

Friday, September 13th, 2013

here are three more relevant papers about retroduplications :

http://www.nature.com/nmeth/journal/v9/n2/full/nmeth.1810.html http://www.plosgenetics.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pgen.1003242 http://genomebiology.com/content/14/3/R22

Cancer on left and right sides

Friday, September 13th, 2013

I guess it is peer-reviewed paper
http://www.jaad.org/article/S0190-9622(10)00614-6/abstract
Skin cancer correlates with handedness of car driving

Up what???

Friday, September 13th, 2013

On the need to be careful when choosing acronyms…
http://www.nature.com/nmeth/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nmeth.2604.html