Uncommon grains: Getting beyond wheat, corn and rice | Ensia

April 21, 2018

https://ensia.com/features/uncommon-grains/


GP-write Cover Feature in April WIRED Magazine; Registration GP-write Scientific Meeting now open

April 21, 2018

The next best version of me: How to live forever
https://www.Wired.com/story/live-forever-synthetic-human-genome/ The @GP_write meeting & synthetic biology in the pop. press

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Genome Project-write (GP-write) is featured as the cover story in the upcoming April 2018 WIRED cover story.
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How to sail smoothly from academia to industry

April 21, 2018

How to sail smoothly from academia to industry
http://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-03306-1 Teamwork is key. Perhaps this should be emphasized more in graduate training? #Jobs QT:{{”
“When immuno-oncologist Martijn Bijker decided to move from academia to industry, he asked a friend to review his CV. His friend — who had worked in the pharmaceutical sector for two decades — told him to relegate his lists of publications, posters and presentations to the back of the document. The focus, he said, should be on teamwork skills and the ability to perform the job requirements.”
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systematic comparison of dnase-seq & atac-seq

April 21, 2018

Reproducible inference of TF footprints in #ATACseq & DNase-seq…via protocol-specific bias modeling
https://www.BiorXiv.org/content/early/2018/03/19/284364 Systematic comparison of the 2 assay HT @gamzeandgursoy


Reddit and the Struggle to Detoxify the Internet

April 21, 2018

QT:{{”
Toward the end, the square was a dense, colorful tapestry, chaotic and strangely captivating. It was a collage of hundreds of incongruous images: logos of colleges, sports teams, bands, and video-game companies; a transcribed monologue from “Star Wars”; likenesses of He-Man, David Bowie, the “Mona Lisa,” and a former Prime Minister of Finland. In the final hours, shortly before the experiment ended and the image was frozen for posterity, BlackVoid launched a surprise attack on the American flag. A dark fissure tore at the bottom of the flag, then overtook the whole thing. For a few minutes, the center was engulfed in darkness. Then a broad coalition rallied to beat back the Void; the stars and stripes regained their form, and, in the end, the flag was still there.
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Reddit & the Struggle to Detoxify the Internet
https://www.NewYorker.com/magazine/2018/03/19/reddit-and-the-struggle-to-detoxify-the-internet Describes an interesting expt: users compete & collaborate to determine the content of white square. “Toward the end, the square was…a collage…logos of colleges…teams… [&] likenesses of the Mona Lisa”


Mapping the mouse Allelome reveals tissue-specific regulation of allelic expression | eLife

April 21, 2018

Mapping the mouse Allelome reveals tissue-specific regulation of allelic expression https://eLifeSciences.org/articles/25125 More noncoding than coding #allelic activity. Also, finding windows of allelic activity for chromatin

Daniel Andergassen,
Christoph P Dotter,
Daniel Wenzel,
Verena Sigl,
Philipp C Bammer,
Markus Muckenhuber,
Daniela Mayer,
Tomasz M Kulinski,
Hans-Christian Theussl,
Josef M Penninger,
Christoph Bock,
Denise P Barlow ,
Florian M Pauler ,
Quanah J Hudson

Research Center for Molecular Medicine of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria;
Institute of Molecular Biotechnology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria;
Institute of Molecular Pathology, Austria


Could baby’s first bacteria take root before birth?

April 21, 2018

Could baby’s first bacteria take root before birth?
https://www.Nature.com/articles/d41586-018-00664-8 Interesting discussion of the controversy around detecting trace exogenous sequences in human tissues. Perhaps relevant to #exRNA?


Noise machine research

April 21, 2018

https://sleepjunkies.com/features/sleep-soundly-with-white-noise/


How to Sleep Better – Best Sleep Gadgets and Products

April 21, 2018

https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/health/a18930172/best-sleep-gadgets/


unitasking – Wiktionary

April 21, 2018

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/unitasking