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October 5

10/5/2014

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An outstanding review on wnt in tissue renewal and regeneration:
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/346/6205/1248012.full
With only a single zebrafish citation?

I think “the awesome power of yeast genetics” has officially been officially supplanted by “the awesome power of genome sequencing”
http://www.nature.com/news/fast-genetic-sequencing-saves-newborn-lives-1.16027

This is almost creepy: neurostimulation after spinal cord injury makes rats walk on two legs

http://stm.sciencemag.org/content/6/255/255ra133.full
I recommend watching one or more supplementary movies. You will need something like a VLC player if you use a newer Mac.

A promising Ebola drug:
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v514/n7520/full/nature13777.html
Those who follow the news know that Zmapp has been already successfully used on human patients, too. Do you think it expedited the publication of primate data in Nature?

A must-read for everyone thinking about grad school:
http://sciencecareers.sciencemag.org/career_magazine/previous_issues/articles/2014_09_30/caredit.a1400245
My take? 1992 was a better year to get your PhD than 1999. Anyone betting that 2020 is going to revert back to the good old days?

And here is my little bit of public/social policy:

Apparently (and contrary to some bigmouths) unemployed women have fewer babies:
http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2014/09/24/1408975111.full.pdf+html
Would it be OK to use the genetic term "negative selection”?

I think the worst part about the mess below is that elected public officials who try to micromanage and ridicule science feel that they have the support of their electorate.
http://news.sciencemag.org/policy/2014/10/battle-between-nsf-and-house-science-committee-escalates-how-did-it-get-bad?rss=1
And there are quite a few of them. Science funding is not about to improve anytime soon.

By the way, even walruses know that global warming is real:
http://news.sciencemag.org/sifter/2014/10/mass-walrus-gathering-on-alaskan-shore?rss=1
Is too much to ask that a politician be as smart as a walrus?

Darius

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