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http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/pub/new-dilemmas-for-the-prisoner

New Dilemmas for the Prisoner: Weird things happen in with repeated iterations of the #PrisonersDilemma
http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/pub/new-dilemmas-for-the-prisoner #gametheory

http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/feature/2013/6/one-familys-search-to-explain-a-fatal-neurological-disorder

Family’s Search to Explain a Fatal Neurological Disorder: from #ataxia phenotype, to #RFLPs & gene, to mouse models
http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/feature/2013/6/one-familys-search-to-explain-a-fatal-neurological-disorder

BioTechniques – The Myth of the Single Genome
http://www.biotechniques.com/news/The-Myth-of-the-Single-Genome/biotechniques-347272.html

The Myth of the Single #Genome: fetal Y chr left in women + smaller microchimerism in specific tissues
http://www.biotechniques.com/news/The-Myth-of-the-Single-Genome/biotechniques-347272.html MT @xberthet

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/09/predicting-the-nobel-prizes

Prediction of Physics winners is correct

How Achy Joints Predict the #Weather: falling pressure causes trapped-gas pockets to push into nerves
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304500404579127833656537554.html MT @Theyear2030

Weighing in on one of the longest running medical controversies, scientists find that achy joints really can predict the weather

http://www.mercurynews.com/science/ci_24271770/stanford-nobel-prize-chemistry-second-2013-levitt

The New Neuro-Skeptics: Kirk v Spock in the interpretation of brain
fMRI http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2013/09/09/130909crbo_books_gopnik

Amazing @ginakolata #microbiome story: how transferring Gut Bacteria From Thin Humans Can Slim Mice Down nyti.ms/19mFywy MT @jflier
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/06/health/gut-bacteria-from-thin-humans-can-slim-mice-down.html

Great @carlzimmer article on #mosaicism. However, its scale is much less than natural or cancer variation http://nyti.ms/15ymYlJ MT @darnelr

Might have been worth mentioning that the amount of somatic variation in healthy cells appears to be considerably less than the variation between people or between a tumor and normal genome.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/17/science/dna-double-take.html

Night Shift Belly: schedule-stressed people & mice have leaky guts, giving #IBD, liver disease…
http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/pub/night-shift-belly via @dopaminergic13

http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/pub/2013/5/night-shift-belly