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http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/10/141006-ten-science-discovery-without-nobel/

http://www.forbes.com/sites/davidshaywitz/2014/09/07/do-data-from-wearables-belong-in-the-medical-record/

m.wsj.com/articles/how-to-tame-bad-breath-1411420070?mobile=y&mod=e2tw

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/30/upshot/its-so-much-more-fun-to-spread-rumors-than-the-truth.html?smid=tw-nytimes&_r=0&abt=0002&abg=0

Searching for missing heritability… rare variant association studies http://www.pnas.org/content/111/4/E455.abstract Pessimistic on #RVAS in #noncoding regions

Nice overview of study design. Good journal-club material.

http://www.nature.com/ng/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/ng.3097.html

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/10/04/sports/basketball/nets-and-dodgers-ponder-a-complex-deal-to-merge-assets-.html?referrer=&_r=0

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/govbeat/wp/2014/09/30/the-forbes-400-billionaires-where-they-live-how-much-they-own-and-how-they-got-it/

http://nymag.com/scienceofus/2014/10/where-skinny-people-sit-in-restaurants.html?mid=twitter_nymag

The go-between: Life’s unexpected
messengerhttp://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22329860.400-the-gobetween-lifes-unexpected-messenger.html Overview connecting many flavors of #RNA – ie RNAi, siRNA, miRNA & @exRNA

Some bits unclear though – in relation to boundaries betw. siRNA & exRNA

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The RNA in cells is far more mobile than we thought (Image: Renaud Vigourt)

Far from staying put, RNA – the less famous cousin of DNA – can roam far afield, carrying information to other cells in the body and even to other animals

UNDER the soil of the cornfield, the rootworm larvae emerge from their eggs and crawl in search of roots to munch on. But their mother chose the wrong field to lay her eggs in. There’s something special about the maize here – it’s armed with a smart weapon designed to target the rootworms.

As the larvae feed, this weapon is released from the plant and enters their gut cells. There it halts production of a vital protein by blocking one specific gene. In the hours that follow, this “gene silencing” weapon spreads to other cells in the larvae’s bodies. At first there is no …

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