Archive for June, 2017

Why future iPhones won’t have any ports

Friday, June 30th, 2017

http://mashable.com/2017/06/30/iphone-future-no-ports/?utm_cid=mash-com-Tw-main-link#9nWtYCc5UPqj

Single Cell Analysis paper

Friday, June 30th, 2017

http://genome-tech.ucsd.edu/public/Lake_Science_2016/
https://twitter.com/mikejg84/status/880240608144531456

16 Neuronal subtypes & [inter-regional] diversity revealed by [#singlecell]-nucleus RNAseq of…the brain
http://science.sciencemag.org/content/352/6293/1586.long

Neuronal subtypes and diversity revealed by single-nucleus RNA sequencing of the human brain.
Lake BB, Ai R, Kaeser GE, Salathia NS, Yung YC, Liu R, Wildberg A, Gao D, Fung HL, Chen S, Vijayaraghavan R, Wong J, Chen A, Sheng X, Kaper F, Shen R, Ronaghi M, Fan JB, Wang W, Chun J, Zhang K.
Science. 2016 Jun 24;352(6293):1586-90. doi: 10.1126/science.aaf1204.

Immigrants to America are better educated than ever before

Friday, June 30th, 2017

https://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21723108-far-being-low-skilled-half-all-legal-migrants-have-college-degrees-immigrants?fsrc=scn/tw/te/bl/ed/immigrantstoamericaarebettereducatedthaneverbefore

Facebook, Free Expression and the Power of a Leak – The New York Times

Thursday, June 29th, 2017

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/27/opinion/facebook-first-amendment-leaks-free-speech.html

FormBox: A Desktop Vacuum Former That Makes Beautiful Things by Mayku Industries — Kickstarter

Thursday, June 29th, 2017

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1094489804/formbox-a-desktop-vacuum-former-that-makes-beautif?token=3cfc1fac&utm_source=Alan_C1_A1_AD3&utm_medium=CPC

New pool on Yale’s list

Wednesday, June 28th, 2017

http://yaledailynews.com/blog/2014/04/25/new-pool-on-yales-list/

A survey of human brain transcriptome diversity at the single cell level

Wednesday, June 28th, 2017

Brain #transcriptome diversity at the single cell level
http://www.PNAS.org/content/112/23/7285 Has useful gene-exp. profiles of specific neural cell types

has profiles for 185 biomarker genes for 6 cell types

Honda’s Self-Driving Approach Starts With the Acura NSX Supercar | WIRED

Monday, June 26th, 2017

https://www.wired.com/story/acura-nsx-honda-self-driving-cars?mbid=social_twitter

Zika virus evolution and spread in the Americas : Nature : Nature Research

Monday, June 26th, 2017

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v546/n7658/full/nature22402.html

#Zika virus evolution & spread in the Americas, by @sabeti_lab http://www.Nature.com/nature/journal/v546/n7658/full/nature22402.html #Phylogeny reconstruction of 110 new + 64 known seqs.

The Mystery of the Wasting House-Cats – The New York Times

Monday, June 26th, 2017

The Mystery of the Wasting…Cats
https://www.NYTimes.com/2017/05/16/magazine/the-mystery-of-the-wasting-house-cats.html pets as the new coal-mine canaries, now turning up PBDEs (thyroid hormone analogs)