Archive for the 'SciLit' Category

Longitudinal analysis of microbial interaction between humans and the indoor environment

May 3, 2015

Microbial interaction betw humans & the indoor environment http://www.sciencemag.org/content/345/6200/1048.abstract
Unique personal signatures w/ implications for #forensics

Places change to conform to signature…..

The evolutionary history of lethal metastatic prostate cancer : Nature : Nature Publishing Group

May 2, 2015

The evolutionary history of…metastatic prostate #cancer http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature14347.html Unexpected: polyclonal "seeding" w/ much met-to-met spread

Reverse-engineering censorship in China: Randomized experimentation and participant observation

May 2, 2015

Reverse-engineering #censorship in #China: Randomized expts
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/345/6199/1251722.abstract Criticism is ok but calls for collective action are not

Transmissible Dog Cancer Genome Reveals the Origin and History of an Ancient Cell Lineage

May 2, 2015

Transmissible Dog #Cancer #Genome Reveals…History of…Cell Lineage http://www.sciencemag.org/content/343/6169/437.abstract 1.9M somatic mutations from origin ~11K yrs ago

Can disparities be deadly?

April 28, 2015

Can disparities be deadly? http://www.sciencemag.org/content/344/6186/829.summary
Correlation v causation: does high government rank lead to good health or the converse

For the famous Whitehall study

http://www.sciencemag.org/content/344/6186/829.summary

Automated validation of genetic variants from large databases: ensuring that variant references refer to the same genomic locations

April 26, 2015

Some initial comparisons of HGMD & OMIM, nice to incl. ClinVar in the future

http://bioinformatics.oxfordjournals.org/content/27/6/891

The 8q24 cancer risk variant rs6983267 shows long-range interaction with : MYC: in colorectal cancer : Abstract : Nature Genetics

April 26, 2015

http://www.nature.com/ng/journal/v41/n8/abs/ng.403.html

Global burden of cancers attributable to infections in 2008: a review and synthetic analysis – The Lancet Oncology

April 26, 2015

http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanonc/article/PIIS1470-2045(12)70137-7/abstract

Immune System Drugs Melt Tumors In New Study, Leading A Cancer Revolution – Forbes

April 26, 2015

http://www.forbes.com/sites/matthewherper/2015/04/20/immune-system-drugs-melt-tumors-leading-a-cancer-revolution/

Intratumor heterogeneity in localized lung adenocarcinomas delineated by multiregion sequencing

April 26, 2015

http://www.sciencemag.org/content/346/6206/256.abstract