Posts Tagged ‘scinews’

Big biology: The ’omes puzzle : Nature News & Comment

March 1, 2013

http://www.nature.com/news/big-biology-the-omes-puzzle-1.12484?WT.ec_id=NATURE-20130228
Where once there was the genome, now there are thousands of ’omes.
Nature goes in search of the ones that matter.
by Monya Baker
27 February 2013Contains an interesting ‘omes crossword

breakthrough prize winners

March 1, 2013

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2013/feb/20/breakthrough-prize-silicon-valley-entrepreneurs Lander, Botstein, Vogelstein and Cornelia Bargmann…Lewis Cantley, "I almost fell over. I didn’t even know this prize existed." He turned 64 on Wednesday.

The Drama Over Project Encode, And Why Big Science And Small Science Are Different | Popular Science

March 1, 2013

http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2013-02/fracas-over-project-encode-and-why-big-science-and-small-science-are-different

Scientists attacked over claim that ‘junk DNA’ is vital to life

March 1, 2013

http://m.guardiannews.com/science/2013/feb/24/scientists-attacked-over-junk-dna-claim

The Drama Over Project Encode, And Why Big Science And Small Science Are Different | Popular Science

March 1, 2013

http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2013-02/fracas-over-project-encode-and-why-big-science-and-small-science-are-different

Metrics: Do metrics matter? : Nature News

March 1, 2013

http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100616/full/465860a.html

Metrics: A profusion of measures : Nature News

March 1, 2013

http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100616/full/465864a.html

Junk no more > Features > Winter 2013 | Yale Medicine

February 28, 2013

http://yalemedicine.yale.edu/winter2013//features/feature/145468 Yale scientists played a leading role in an international effort to map the 99 percent of the human genome that doesn’t produce
proteins—perhaps ending the notion that those regions are “junk.” By Colleen Shaddox

Big biology: The ’omes puzzle : Nature News & Comment

February 28, 2013

http://www.nature.com/news/big-biology-the-omes-puzzle-1.12484?WT.ec_id=NATURE-20130228 Where once there was the genome, now there are thousands of ’omes. Nature goes in search of the ones that matter.
by Monya Baker
27 February 2013

Project Seeks to Build Map of Human Brain – NYTimes.com

February 18, 2013

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/18/science/project-seeks-to-build-map-of-human-brain.html?_r=0&pagewanted=all