Extension of cortical synaptic development distinguishes humans from chimpanzees and macaques
http://genome.cshlp.org/content/early/2012/01/30/gr.127324.111.long
Archive for the 'PopSci' Category
The nature of humanity: What’s a man? | The Economist
February 19, 2012Harvard Mapping My DNA Turns Scary – Bloomberg
February 19, 2012Evidence report with JAK2 variant – http://evidence.personalgenomes.org/huA90CE6 .
My comment in response to https://plus.google.com/u/0/102948203403308799263/posts/NBHErsbBLxL
“Enjoyed this story very much. Finding that one has a rare but powerful variant will probably one of the first practical ways that personal genomics will impact actual people’s lives — particularly with the ramping up the NHGRI supported sequencing on simple Mendelian disorders.”
Big Data’s Impact in the World – NYTimes.com
February 12, 2012Raising the Chance of Some Cancers With Two Drinks a Day – WSJ.com
February 8, 2012The nature of humanity: What’s a man? | The Economist
February 8, 2012Magnetic Sense Shows Many Animals the Way to Go: Scientific American
February 6, 2012http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=the-compass-within
Expts show birds seems to use it but hard to get at molecular cause of magnetic sense.
To Know, but Not Understand: David Weinberger on Science and Big Data – David Weinberger – Technology – The Atlantic
February 6, 2012Impossible reactions: 5 chemistry rules broken – New Scientist
February 6, 2012http://www.newscientist.com/special/impossible-chemistry
quasixtal, oscill. BZ rxn, XePtF6, 3-atom carbocat., QM tunnels
…and a longer version:
(1) quasicrystals & Shechtman Nobel;
(2) BZ reaction as wave via autocatalytic intermediate synthesis, damped so not to violated 2nd law; (3) Bartlett’s XePtF6 via super oxidizer (i.e. electron grabber) PtF6;
(4) Olah’s carbocation spread over 3 atoms (causes reaction to join on a different C than predicted)
(5) odd tunneling effects with intermediates push reactions to seemingly unfavorable products
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