Archive for January, 2016

Caltech Researchers Find Evidence of a Real Ninth Planet | Caltech

Sunday, January 24th, 2016

http://www.caltech.edu/news/caltech-researchers-find-evidence-real-ninth-planet-49523

How to View Five Planets Aligning in a Celestial Spectacle – The New York Times

Sunday, January 24th, 2016

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/20/science/space/five-planets-align-mars-jupiter-mercury-saturn-venus.html?smid=tw-nytimesscience&smtyp=cur&_r=0

Young, gifted and held back | The Economist

Sunday, January 24th, 2016

http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21688856-worlds-young-are-oppressed-minority-unleash-them-young-gifted-and-held-back?fsrc=scn/tw/te/pe/ed/younggiftedandheldback

Realizing Privacy Preserving Genome-wide Association Studies

Sunday, January 24th, 2016

http://bioinformatics.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2016/01/12/bioinformatics.btw009.long

CTCF-Mediated Human 3D Genome Architecture Reveals Chromatin Topology for Transcription: Cell

Saturday, January 23rd, 2016

http://www.cell.com/cell/pdf/S0092-8674(15)01504-4.pdf

Best fitness trackers 2016: Jawbone, Misfit, Fitbit, Garmin and more

Saturday, January 23rd, 2016

Nice wrapup …
http://www.wareable.com/fitness-trackers/the-best-fitness-tracker

Dynamics of genomic clones in breast cancer patient xenografts at single-cell resolution : Nature : Nature Publishing Group

Saturday, January 23rd, 2016

Dynamics of genomic clones in breast #cancer PDX at #singlecell resolution http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v518/n7539/full/nature13952.html Extensive trees of samples & some WGS

Peter Eirew,
Adi Steif,
Jaswinder Khattra,
Gavin Ha,

Jazmine Brimhall,
Arusha Oloumi,
Tomo Osako
et al.

Nature 518, 422–426 (19 February 2015) doi:10.1038/nature13952

Drones, Valor, and the Future of the Military – The Atlantic

Saturday, January 23rd, 2016

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/01/can-drone-pilots-be-heroes/424830/?utm_source=SFTwitter

Research Parasites

Saturday, January 23rd, 2016

Dara sharing http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMe1516564 Deems #datascientists as “research parasites,” using another’s data for their own ends via @dspakowicz

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“A second concern held by some is that a new class of research person will emerge — people who had nothing to do with the design and execution of the study but use another group’s data for their own ends, possibly stealing from the research productivity planned by the data gatherers, or even use the data to try to disprove what the original investigators had posited. There is concern among some front-line researchers that the system will be taken over by what some researchers have characterized as “research parasites.””
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A man who recorded every detail of his life for five years has the ultimate way to live in the moment – Quartz

Friday, January 22nd, 2016

http://qz.com/519298/the-story-of-a-man-who-recorded-every-detail-of-his-life-for-five-years/