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September 20th, 2013

9/20/2013

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"Crazy cat lady" is the real deal!
http://www.nature.com/news/parasite-makes-mice-lose-fear-of-cats-permanently-1.13777

OK, so DNA helicases are important for genome stability. And genome instability leads to cancer. Can someone explain to me why this is big news in 2013?
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature12565.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-23962316

Here is why precision matters when engineering an allele...
http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2013/08/13/1312006110.abstract

…and an awesome example how conditional mutants were used to dissect a complex behavior in the mouse http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v501/n7466/full/nature12518.html

The difficulty to infer causative relationships from correlations... Especially in cases which raise all kinds of ethical and emotional red flags.
http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/trending/Study-Holocaust-survivors-lived-longer-than-those-who-escaped-before-WWII.html
Didn't think I'd cite philly.com, did ya?

Now onto career stuff. Here is another bit of great news on the bio job market! In Singapore...
http://www.edb.gov.sg/content/edb/en/news-and-events/news/2013-news/thermo-fisher-scientific-dry-powder-media-facility-opening-in-singapore.html?cmpid=outbrain-thermo-fisher-scientific-dry-powder-media-facility-opening-in-singapore-headlineA

You've seen links to studies that PhD stundets are unhappy and disillusioned. Now it turns our MDs are in no better shape…
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/-1-million-mistake--becoming-a-doctor-180452276.html

The lesson? Never, ever give up on the dream to become a happy beach bum.

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