This week’s issue of Science has not one, not two, but three great developmental genetics papers. I will not complain about cyrusification anymore.
Two weeks ago we read about Wnt not being a morphogen anymore. Now it turns out there is no more (need for a) somitogenesis clock.
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/343/6172/791.full
Together with the recent "no more black holes" stuff, I really do not know where science is headed :-)
But I do find some solace in the fact that gastrulation movements are getting further sorted out
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/343/6172/1248636.full
And I do not think black holes are involved in many cases of "missing” genes.
Regeneration-wise, shrimps are more similar to mammals than to flatworms:
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/343/6172/788.full
Not a huge surprise but an extremely importand finding nonetheless.
Now onto fluffier stuff:
A cool evolutionary story on native American populations
http://news.sciencemag.org/archaeology/2014/02/native-americans-descend-ancient-montana-boy
Data visualization is a huge challenge, and some people are better than others at solving it:
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/343/6171/600.full
And here is one of my favorite gripes for grad students: the fact that you found a statistical method which demonstrates a significant difference between your experiments does not necessarily mean much.
http://www.nature.com/news/number-crunch-1.14692
Would you keep a neater lab notebook if you thought it may end up online?
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v506/n7487/full/506159e.html
Enjoy!
Two weeks ago we read about Wnt not being a morphogen anymore. Now it turns out there is no more (need for a) somitogenesis clock.
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/343/6172/791.full
Together with the recent "no more black holes" stuff, I really do not know where science is headed :-)
But I do find some solace in the fact that gastrulation movements are getting further sorted out
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/343/6172/1248636.full
And I do not think black holes are involved in many cases of "missing” genes.
Regeneration-wise, shrimps are more similar to mammals than to flatworms:
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/343/6172/788.full
Not a huge surprise but an extremely importand finding nonetheless.
Now onto fluffier stuff:
A cool evolutionary story on native American populations
http://news.sciencemag.org/archaeology/2014/02/native-americans-descend-ancient-montana-boy
Data visualization is a huge challenge, and some people are better than others at solving it:
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/343/6171/600.full
And here is one of my favorite gripes for grad students: the fact that you found a statistical method which demonstrates a significant difference between your experiments does not necessarily mean much.
http://www.nature.com/news/number-crunch-1.14692
Would you keep a neater lab notebook if you thought it may end up online?
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v506/n7487/full/506159e.html
Enjoy!
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