Night Shift Belly: schedule-stressed people & mice have leaky guts, giving #IBD, liver disease…
http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/pub/night-shift-belly via @dopaminergic13
http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/pub/2013/5/night-shift-belly
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Night Shift Belly » American Scientist
September 8, 2013Don’t swallow it: Six health myths you should ignore – New Scientist
September 6, 20136 #health myths you should ignore: drinking lots of water, doing a detox, taking antiox vitamins… http://owl.li/odmDN MT @BiotechBizGuy http://www.newscientist.com/special/six-health-myths
The Flavor Connection Interactive: Scientific American
September 1, 2013The Fall and Rise of Gene Therapy – Wired Science
August 29, 2013by C Zimmer
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/08/the-fall-and-rise-of-gene-therapy/all/
Fall & Rise of #GeneTherapy: from J Gelsinger’s death to the development of new viral vectors
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/08/the-fall-and-rise-of-gene-therapy/all/
The Sports Gene Considers the Root of Athletic Success – NYTimes.com
August 27, 2013The #Sports Gene Considers… Athletic Success: Nature v nurture in the stadium & #genetics class
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/13/science/the-sports-gene-considers-the-root-of-athletic-success.html MT @CoachWonk
Reuters Next — For Henrietta Lacks’ famous cells, new and unique protection
August 9, 2013http://preview.reuters.com/2013/8/7/for-henrietta-lacks-famous-cells-new-and-unique-1
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/08/07/us-science-hela-idUSBRE9760YD20130807
QT:"
The decision applies only to researchers funded by NIH, which said it
"encourages" other scientists to abide by the agreement. Because
DNA-sequencing technology is cheap and ubiquitous in genetics labs,
the HeLa genome has been partly sequenced many times, and can easily
be fully sequenced again.
"Sequencing" refers to determining the precise order of the chemical
letters on a person’s genome, which is the full library of his or her
genetic information. Bits and pieces of that sequence spell out, for
instance, whether someone is at risk of diabetes or Alzheimer’s or
other genetic traits, as well as personal traits like the consistency
of ear wax.
These loopholes in the access agreement significantly weaken the NIH
move, said Mark Gerstein, a computational biologist at Yale University
who has raised concerns about threats to genetic privacy. "I doubt NIH
will get blanket agreement from scientists in every country" to follow
its protocol, "so it’s not clear what the agreement will be able to
accomplish."
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Reuters Next — For Henrietta Lacks’ famous cells, new and unique protection
August 9, 2013http://preview.reuters.com/2013/8/7/for-henrietta-lacks-famous-cells-new-and-unique-1
QT:”
The decision applies only to researchers funded by NIH, which said it “encourages” other scientists to abide by the agreement. Because DNA-sequencing technology is cheap and ubiquitous in genetics labs, the HeLa genome has been partly sequenced many times, and can easily be fully sequenced again.
“Sequencing” refers to determining the precise order of the chemical letters on a person’s genome, which is the full library of his or her genetic information. Bits and pieces of that sequence spell out, for instance, whether someone is at risk of diabetes or Alzheimer’s or other genetic traits, as well as personal traits like the consistency of ear wax.
These loopholes in the access agreement significantly weaken the NIH move, said Mark Gerstein, a computational biologist at Yale University who has raised concerns about threats to genetic privacy. “I doubt NIH will get blanket agreement from scientists in every country” to follow its protocol, “so it’s not clear what the agreement will be able to accomplish.”
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David Deutsch and Quantum Computing : The New Yorker
August 9, 2013Dream Machine: Explains how many-worlds interpretation gives a #quantumcomputer more “ops” than atoms in universe
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/05/02/110502fa_fact_galchen
Robert Schoelkopf at Yale
Here’s What Happens When You Light a Fire in Space – Megan Garber – The Atlantic
August 5, 2013Here’s What Happens When You Light a Fire in #Space: flame doesn’t go up & you can get cool flames
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/06/heres-what-happens-when-you-light-a-fire-in-space/276950 via @TheAtlantic
Scientists Trace Memories of Things That Never Happened – NYTimes.com
July 29, 2013RT @ilonummi: Scientists Trace Memories of Things That Never Happened – http://bit.ly/1e4YgK3 http://bit.ly/1e4YhgZ
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/26/science/false-memory-planted-in-a-mouse-brain-study-shows.html
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