Balciunas Lab
  • Research
    • Projects
    • Publications
    • Research Opportunities
  • People
    • Lab Life
  • News
  • Lab methods
  • Science picks
  • Publications

May 10, 2014

5/10/2014

0 Comments

 
This week’s list is more fun than science. Fitting with the Finals week here at Temple.

A synthetic yeast chromosome. Made by undergrads.
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v509/n7499/full/509168a.html
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/344/6179/55

Crowdsourcing at it’s best:
http://sciencecareers.sciencemag.org/career_magazine/previous_issues/articles/2014_05_05/caredit.a1400112
Turns out “big science” can be fun, too.

Your pick: either cool dudes are having a “chilling” effect or are men stink up biomedical studies.
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/344/6183/461.full

Very disturbing news: working harder leads to better results.
http://news.sciencemag.org/education/2014/05/scienceshot-why-asian-american-students-outperform-their-white-peers?rss=1
The author needed to hypothesize as to why the outperforming student group spends less time hanging out with their friends. Really?!

Now we know the reason Dracula is forever young
http://news.yahoo.com/studies-young-blood-rejuvenates-aging-mice-191130330.html
http://news.sciencemag.org/biology/2014/05/young-blood-renews-old-mice
http://www.bbc.com/news/health-27282832
You decide which kind of story telling you prefer. Or maybe the actual paper?
http://www.nature.com/nm/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nm.3569.html
How can I get hold of a batch of K-Creb AAVs?

Were the Terminator movies a beginning of a new film genre: futumentary?
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/stephen-hawking-transcendence-looks-at-the-implications-of-artificial-intelligence--but-are-we-taking-ai-seriously-enough-9313474.html
It would not be smart to dismiss Stephen Hawking…
0 Comments

May 2, 2014

5/2/2014

0 Comments

 
Stem cell therapy for “broken heart" monkeys
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature13233.html
Note that the trial was non-randomized.

And apparently only trials with design flaws show effectiveness of stem cell therapies for myocaridal infarction in humans.
http://www.nature.com/news/doubts-over-heart-stem-cell-therapy-1.15122
http://www.nature.com/news/false-positives-1.15119

Finally, an excellent review on functional annotation of the human genome
http://www.pnas.org/content/111/17/6131.full

Now onto the easy stuff:

How to think like a scientist:
http://www.pnas.org/content/111/17/6119.full
Imagination IS important (see my post from last week :-)

Not completely surprisingly but very disturbingly, a professor’s reaction to a letter from a prospective graduate student depends on the name on that letter:
http://sciencecareers.sciencemag.org/career_magazine/previous_issues/articles/2014_04_29/caredit.a1400107

Have a great weekend everyone.

0 Comments

    Weekly sciencey bits

    Disclaimer: This started as a "weekend reading list" meant to encourage students in the lab to think about science and their own future in it. Do not take it seriously: I myself may no longer agree with whatever I wrote here last week.
    - Darius

    Archives

    April 2015
    March 2015
    February 2015
    January 2015
    November 2014
    October 2014
    September 2014
    August 2014
    July 2014
    June 2014
    May 2014
    April 2014
    March 2014
    February 2014
    January 2014
    December 2013
    November 2013
    October 2013
    September 2013
    August 2013
    July 2013
    June 2013
    May 2013

    RSS Feed

Powered by Create your own unique website with customizable templates.