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September 19, 2014

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Finally, we have a well-defined in-bread zebrafish line analogous to mouse strains:
http://www.genetics.org/content/198/1/167.long
Now, let’s see if/how they will thrive in different facilities.

This is really cool: genetics of the placebo effect:
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/345/6203/1446.full
Now the question is: if you find out you are genetically susceptible to the placebo effect, does that knowledge then make you less susceptible? Or is there a genetic component to that, too?

Amazing precision of carbon dating human age among other things
http://www.biotechniques.com/news/biotechniquesNews/biotechniques-353999.html?utm_source=BioTechniques+Newsletters+%26+e-Alerts&utm_campaign=e698ec5859-cell-biology-newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_5f518744d7-e698ec5859-87700457#.VBoGf-dQaHb

Remember the thing about selective mating among humans (see June 6 below)? Here is some back-and-forth on the subject:
http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2014/09/16/1410781111.full.pdf?etoc
http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2014/09/16/1413105111.full.pdf?etoc
In a nutshell, what does “selective” really mean or imply?

This subtitle would make you think that too few female researchers have high Kardashian-index:



http://www.sciencemag.org/content/345/6203/1440.full
Not what you thought, hah? Not what the article meant, either. Stated by a male scientist with a K-index = zero (that would be me).

Have a great weekend everyone.

Darius


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