Archive for January, 2014

Cancer drugs: Getting close and personal | The Economist

Thursday, January 16th, 2014

Getting close and personal: Nice pop overview of #cancer genomics & finding new cancer drugs http://econ.trib.al/DevSlDS HT @ElementoLab

http://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/21592599-researchers-and-drug-companies-are-ganging-up-new-push-against

Michael Pollan: How Smart Are Plants? : The New Yorker

Wednesday, January 15th, 2014

A REPORTER AT LARGE

THE INTELLIGENT PLANT

Scientists debate a new way of understanding flora.

BY MICHAEL POLLAN

DECEMBER 23, 2013

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2013/12/23/131223fa_fact_pollan

How Smart Are #Plants? Do they feel pain? Is plant #neurobiology an oxymoron? http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2013/12/23/131223fa_fact_pollan HT @AlanGuerryMS @michaelpollan (1/2)

Time-lapse #video of a bean “striving” to reach a pole. If we were slower, perhaps #plants would seem smarter
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/elements/2013/12/video-do-bean-plants-show-intelligence.html (2/2)

Michael Pollan: How Smart Are Plants? : The New Yorker

Monday, January 13th, 2014

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2013/12/23/131223fa_fact_pollan?currentPage=all

Internet In America: An On Again, Off Again Relationship : All Tech Considered : NPR

Monday, January 13th, 2014

http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2014/01/12/261924972/internet-in-america-an-on-again-off-again-relationship

Eat Until You’re Full, Ignore Calories, and Lose Weight – The Cut

Sunday, January 12th, 2014

http://nymag.com/thecut/2014/01/eat-lots-ignore-calories-and-lose-weight.html?mid=twitter_nymag

Bankers’ pay: The law of small(er) numbers | The Economist

Sunday, January 12th, 2014

http://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21592642-pay-investment-banks-starting-fall-not-because-politicians-have

A prostate cancer susceptibility allele at 6q22 increases RFX6 expression by modulating HOXB13 chromatin binding : Nature Genetics : Nature Publishing Group

Sunday, January 12th, 2014

.@drbachinsky Basically, SNP w. prostate #cancer risk + mechanistic insight …allele at 6q22 increases RFX6 expr…
http://go.nature.com/HEpOHG

http://www.nature.com/ng/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/ng.2862.html

Stuck: Why Americans Stopped Moving to the Richest States – Derek Thompson – The Atlantic

Sunday, January 12th, 2014

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/01/stuck-why-americans-stopped-moving-to-the-richest-states/282969/

Tech Time Warp of the Week: Steve Jobs Predicts the Future, 1980 | Wired Enterprise | Wired.com

Saturday, January 11th, 2014

http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2014/01/tech-time-warp-jobs-1980/?cid=co16910484#slide-id-124941

Can Silicon Valley VC Apply Lessons From Uber To Disrupt Fortified Healthcare Incumbents? – Forbes

Saturday, January 11th, 2014

http://www.forbes.com/sites/davidshaywitz/2014/01/10/can-an-uber-investor-bring-silicon-valley-disruption-to-healthcare/