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Why Human Disease-Associated Residues Appear as the Wild-Type in Other Species: Genome-Scale Structural Evidence for the Compensation Hypothesis

Monday, September 14th, 2015

Why human disease-associated residues appear as WT in other species http://mbe.oxfordjournals.org/content/31/7/1787.abstract Compensation by their 3D structural neighbors

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New life for old bones

Monday, September 14th, 2015

New life for old bones https://www.sciencemag.org/content/349/6246/358.summary An explosion in ancient DNA research. Water & heat hard on DNA, creating a northern bias

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How Wearable Tech Could Spark A New Privacy Revolution | TechCrunch

Saturday, September 12th, 2015

http://techcrunch.com/2015/09/12/how-wearable-tech-could-spark-a-new-privacy-revolution/?ncid=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Techcrunch+%28TechCrunch%29

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A Dying Young Woman’s Hope in Cryonics and a Future – The New York Times

Saturday, September 12th, 2015

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/13/us/cancer-immortality-cryogenics.html?_r=0

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Does the Application Title Have a Maximum Length? | NIH Extramural Nexus

Saturday, September 12th, 2015

Limitation to 81 characters

https://nexus.od.nih.gov/all/2010/10/01/does-the-application-title-have-a-maximum-length-2/

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11 things I learned about academia by analysing 14 million RateMyProfessor reviews – Academia Obscura

Friday, September 11th, 2015

http://www.academiaobscura.com/11-things-learned-academia-analysing-14-million-ratemyprofessor-reviews/

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Strong, proud and free-riding | The Economist

Thursday, September 10th, 2015

http://www.economist.com/news/americas/21664208-canadians-see-themselves-global-benefactors-fact-they-have-been-pinching?fsrc=scn%2Ftw%2Fte%2Fpe%2Fed%2Fstrongproudandfreeriding

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Five day ‘fasting’ diet slows down ageing and may add years to life – Telegraph

Tuesday, September 8th, 2015

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/science-news/11683736/Five-day-fasting-diet-slows-down-ageing-and-may-add-years-to-life.html

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Short-term fasting may improve health | Science/AAAS | News

Tuesday, September 8th, 2015

http://news.sciencemag.org/biology/2015/06/short-term-fasting-may-improve-health

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Using Technology to Break the Speed Barrier of Reading – Scientific American

Tuesday, September 8th, 2015

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/using-technology-to-break-the-speed-barrier-of-reading/

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