March 8, 2015

A very nice paper on head skeleton evolution:
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v518/n7540/full/nature14000.html
Maybe someone will pick this paper for the journal club...

One of the “new” big questions in biology that is also a bit of a recurring theme here: how does an enhancer know which promoter to activate?
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v518/n7540/full/nature13994.html

I know we have not made a plasmid in a while, but this is a cool method nonetheless:
http://nar.oxfordjournals.org/content/42/20/e154.long

Apparently there has been a dramatic increase in animal usage in biomed research:
http://news.sciencemag.org/plants-animals/2015/02/peta-study-finds-dramatic-rise-use-lab-animals-united-states
Here is a “funny" thing: by head count, my lab may have as many animals as the rest of Temple University. Hereby I copyright  “show skin, not scales” slogan.

Apparently it is very hard to teach things you don’t know:
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/347/6226/1054.full
Who knew?

But things you do know can be tricky to communicate, too:
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/347/6226/1047.full
Can something useful be learned by watching other students give talks and poster presentations?

If birds can do it, students should be able to do it too, right?
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v518/n7540/full/nature13998.html
This applies to things other than posters, too. Just a hint.

Have a good weekend.