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June 6, 2014

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A very nice paper on bone regeneration in zebrafish:
http://dev.biologists.org/content/141/11/2225.full

Ongoing insertional mutagenesis of the human genome by transposons:
http://www.pnas.org/content/111/22/8131

Selective mating in Homo sapiens:
http://www.pnas.org/content/111/22/7996.full
Perhaps we should have computational geneticists play with this some 10 generations into the future. Or maybe not…

I am very disturbed by many aspects of this story:
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/344/6188/1076.full
One of them: persuading a briliant mech engineering student to get PhD in math may be considered a success. But not if all he has is a non-tenure track teaching position as a result.

Ironically, here is a mathematical model of probability to become a PI:
http://sciencecareers.sciencemag.org/career_magazine/previous_issues/articles/2014_06_02/caredit.a1400136
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