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yogurt probiotics survival after freezing

February 5, 2018

QT:{{”
not finding very good data on how much of the bacteria will survive freezing in yogurt.
This “ask the professor” column matches intuition.
“}}

http://tuftsjournal.tufts.edu/2008/06/professor/01/

However, these two sources say there’s no loss in viability… https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022030200749277?via%3Dihub

Holcomb et al. (1991) reported that both L. acidophilus and
Bifidobacterium were able to survive and grow in soft-serve frozen yogurt after freezing [Holcomb, J.E., Frank, J.F. and McGregor, J.U. (1991), Viability of Lactobacillus acidophilus and Bifidobacterium bifidum in soft-serve frozen yogurt. Cult. Dairy Prod. J. 26, 4-5.]

pre-frozen yogurt can contain active cultures — just have to check the label.

JClub by BW on “3D clusters of somatic mutations in cancer reveal numerous rare mutations as functional targets”, Genome Medicine

February 4, 2018

3D clusters of somatic mutations…reveal numerous rare mutations as functional targets
https://GenomeMedicine.BiomedCentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13073-016-0393-x Introduces 3DHotSpots, which is one of a number of recent approaches (incl. CLUMPS, Hotspot3D, Mutation3D & HotMAPS) for finding groupings of somatic SNVs via structure

Neurobiology course

January 20, 2018

Understanding the Brain: The Neurobiology of Everyday Life
https://www.coursera.org/learn/neurobiology

today’s google doodle

January 11, 2018

https://www.google.com/doodles/har-gobind-khoranas-96th-birthday

book: Peak by Anders Ericsson

January 6, 2018

https://www.amazon.com/Peak-Secrets-New-Science-Expertise-ebook/dp/B011H56MKS

QT:{{” people get better at tasks by time
spent doing “deliberate practice”, as opposed to time spend doing the task less rigorously.
The recommendation for how to apply deliberate practice to task X is to find an expert in X and study them.
“}}

A Bayesian Framework to Account for Complex Non-Genetic Factors in Gene Expression Levels Greatly Increases Power in eQTL Studies

January 6, 2018

A Bayesian Framework to Account for Complex Non-Genetic Factors in Gene Expression Levels Greatly Increases Power in #eQTL Studies http://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000770 Early discussion & development of PEER factors

Alexa for Me?

January 6, 2018

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YvT_gqs5ETk

George Church Medical Info

January 5, 2018

https://my.pgp-hms.org/profile/hu43860C
George Church discloses a lot of his medical records

PODCAST: Founder Eben Bayer On Harnessing Mushroom Power To Eradicate Plastics

January 4, 2018

http://www.forbes.com/sites/laurelmoglen/2017/03/15/eben-bayer-harnessing-mushroom-power-to-eradicate-plastics/

Axios

December 30, 2017

https://www.axios.com/tag/data-visualization-2017