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October 11th, 2013

10/11/2013

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George Church is always fun and provocative
http://www.nature.com/news/improving-genome-understanding-1.13907
In a nerdy way of course. But if you are not a nerd, why are you reading this?!

Eugenics anyone?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-24398312
Apparently someone recently patented DNAmatch.com ;-)

Transgenerational effects of defects in folate metabolism
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1550413113003859
Blaming everything on your parents is sooo last year. Grandparents!

At least one big pharma company appears to be interested in real science:
http://www.nature.com/news/novartis-reboots-brain-division-1.13912
BTW, director of NIBR Mark Fishman worked with zebrafish before moving over to the industry 

I don't know about you guys, but there were no real surprises for me in this study:
http://sciencecareers.sciencemag.org/career_magazine/previous_issues/articles/2013_10_08/caredit.a1300219

OK, so this lists MD/PhD as a great career choice:
http://sciencecareers.sciencemag.org/career_magazine/previous_issues/articles/2013_10_10/caredit.a1300225
Now, look at page 4 of this document (and hope there was a problem with this survey, especially if you are a female) http://photos.the-scientist.com/legacyArticleImages/2011/12/2011_SalarySurvey.pdf
If it is on the internet, it must be true, right?

And now a continuation of  last week's theme on discrepancy between calls for STEM grads and the actual job market:
http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/phillypharma/Teva-says-it-will-cut-5000-jobs-by-the-end-of-2014.html

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