With the holiday weekend coming up, let’s go lightweight on content.
A cool paper on the role basic transcription machinery (the Mediator) in obesity. In the heart.
http://www.pnas.org/content/111/26/9491.full
The funny thing is - I (and others) cloned the yeast homolog of Med12 in a screen for de-repression of glucose repressed genes. Almost before some of you were born :-)
Taking care of children messes with your brain:
http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2014/06/27/1408807111.full.pdf?etoc
But in a good way…
Continued discussion on Alberts et al. (see my previous post)
http://www.pnas.org/content/111/26/E2634.full
http://www.pnas.org/content/111/26/E2635.full
The thought of running a research institute more like a company is very interesting (if unappealing).
A huge retraction:
http://www.nature.com/news/stap-retracted-1.15488
An interesting and worthwhile read on stem cell research funding in California
http://www.nature.com/news/stem-cells-hope-on-the-line-1.15499
So what do you do when someone proves that your “bigfoot” samples are junk?
http://news.sciencemag.org/biology/2014/07/bigfoot-samples-analyzed-lab
“Return to the forests with renewed enthusiasm in search of the “golden hair”” is certainly one option...
I need few more guys in my lab.
http://sciencecareers.sciencemag.org/career_magazine/previous_issues/articles/2014_06_30/caredit.a1400167
A random fascinating reading: did you know that USA Goalie (and the best US player in the Belgium game by far) has Tourette’s syndrome?
http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-magazine-monitor-28128439
There is only one way this paper could be taken seriously: if it came from Harvard. Oh wait, it did.
http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2014/06/25/1402289111.abstract.html?etoc
And it is being taken seriously for sure:
http://news.sciencemag.org/plants-animals/2014/06/video-large-animals-are-no-whiz-peeing
I suggest a follow-up study: keep the weight relatively constant and vary the kind of liquid being consumed: beer vs. whiskey.
Speaking of beer: here's an alternative career path:
http://sciencecareers.sciencemag.org/career_magazine/previous_issues/articles/2014_06_23/caredit.a1400158
Looking forward to Janelia Pale Ale.
Darius
A cool paper on the role basic transcription machinery (the Mediator) in obesity. In the heart.
http://www.pnas.org/content/111/26/9491.full
The funny thing is - I (and others) cloned the yeast homolog of Med12 in a screen for de-repression of glucose repressed genes. Almost before some of you were born :-)
Taking care of children messes with your brain:
http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2014/06/27/1408807111.full.pdf?etoc
But in a good way…
Continued discussion on Alberts et al. (see my previous post)
http://www.pnas.org/content/111/26/E2634.full
http://www.pnas.org/content/111/26/E2635.full
The thought of running a research institute more like a company is very interesting (if unappealing).
A huge retraction:
http://www.nature.com/news/stap-retracted-1.15488
An interesting and worthwhile read on stem cell research funding in California
http://www.nature.com/news/stem-cells-hope-on-the-line-1.15499
So what do you do when someone proves that your “bigfoot” samples are junk?
http://news.sciencemag.org/biology/2014/07/bigfoot-samples-analyzed-lab
“Return to the forests with renewed enthusiasm in search of the “golden hair”” is certainly one option...
I need few more guys in my lab.
http://sciencecareers.sciencemag.org/career_magazine/previous_issues/articles/2014_06_30/caredit.a1400167
A random fascinating reading: did you know that USA Goalie (and the best US player in the Belgium game by far) has Tourette’s syndrome?
http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-magazine-monitor-28128439
There is only one way this paper could be taken seriously: if it came from Harvard. Oh wait, it did.
http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2014/06/25/1402289111.abstract.html?etoc
And it is being taken seriously for sure:
http://news.sciencemag.org/plants-animals/2014/06/video-large-animals-are-no-whiz-peeing
I suggest a follow-up study: keep the weight relatively constant and vary the kind of liquid being consumed: beer vs. whiskey.
Speaking of beer: here's an alternative career path:
http://sciencecareers.sciencemag.org/career_magazine/previous_issues/articles/2014_06_23/caredit.a1400158
Looking forward to Janelia Pale Ale.
Darius
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