Blind Watchmaker
Posted in evolution, science & religion, simulation, taggé Watchmaker, William Paley on octobre 30, 2007 | Aucun commentaire »
I hope he named his program William Paley!
HT PZ Myers
Archives pour octobre 2007
Robotics + Creator = So funny from cectic.com
Posted in humor, taggé humour, robotics on octobre 26, 2007 | Aucun commentaire »
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Enhanced phytoremediation of volatile environmental pollutants with transgenic trees
Posted in GMO, de-pollution, taggé de-pollution, GM, GMO, green, P450 on octobre 26, 2007 | Aucun commentaire »
Enhanced phytoremediation of volatile environmental pollutants with transgenic trees
Sharon L. Doty, C. Andrew James, Allison L. Moore, Azra Vajzovic, Glenda L. Singleton, Caiping Ma,
Zareen Khan, Gang Xin, Jun Won Kang, Jin Young Park, Richard Meilan, Steven H. Strauss,
Jasmine Wilkerson, Federico Farin, and Stuart E. Strand
PNAS October 23, 2007 vol. [...]
Watson’s folly
Posted in genome, humor on octobre 25, 2007 | Aucun commentaire »
From Nature’s editorial:
Watson certainly has a track record in making distasteful remarks. He has on many previous occasions voiced unpalatable views tinged with racism and sexism, ranging from a desire to see a world full of genetically engineered pretty girls to his belief that sex drive is related to skin colour. He has been largely [...]
the noblest tradition of science
Posted in Interesting stuff, honor, science & religion on octobre 25, 2007 | 1 Commentaire »
Via The Island of Doubt, where James Hrynyshyn reports a quite particular case of retraction, of a paper published in American Scientist, 52 years ago.
Two statements in Dr Homer Jacobson’ paper, were used by creationists who have quoted [his] not merely out-of-context, but incorrect, statements, to support their dubious viewpoint. [He is] deeply embarrassed to [...]
PLoS ONE Picks
Posted in PLoS ONE on octobre 24, 2007 | Aucun commentaire »
Ziv E, Nemenman I, Wiggins CH (2007) Optimal Signal Processing in Small Stochastic Biochemical Networks. PLoS ONE 2(10): e1077. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0001077
Vogel H, Kroymann J, Mitchell-Olds T (2007) Different Transcript Patterns in Response to Specialist and Generalist Herbivores in the Wild Arabidopsis Relative Boechera divaricarpa. PLoS ONE 2(10): e1081. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0001081
Twellmeyer J, Wende A, Wolfertz J, Pfeiffer F, [...]
The Tables serie: Table 1-Highly Integrated Molecular Diagnostic Platforms
Posted in lab-on-a-chip, molecular diagnostic, nanotech, taggé automation, diagnostic, instrumentation, mdx, molecular, NANO, NASBA, PCR, platform, robot, SDA, TMA on octobre 23, 2007 | 1 Commentaire »
This is the 1st table of a serie of 3 on automated platforms in Molecular Diagnostics that will be available exclusively at Coffee And Sci(ence). You can find it here:
Table 1-Highly Integrated Molecular Diagnostic Platforms
Back in 2004, when Roche Molecular Diagnostics had introduced the Cobas Ampliprep + Cobas Taqman 48 in Europe, there was not too [...]
ESF meeting sets cornerstone for science communication
Posted in housekeeping blog on octobre 22, 2007 | 1 Commentaire »
Source
Researchers do not know how to express their ideas to politicians
To convince scientists of the benefits of communicating what they do
To raise national government’s priorities on science
To convince the media to write about a wider range of science topics
To Increase public interest in science and the desire from the young generation to [...]
Regulatory Pathway Analysis by High-Throughput In Situ Hybridization
Posted in bioinformatics, development, taggé development, genepaint, HTP, ISH, Pax6, regulatory pathway on octobre 22, 2007 | Aucun commentaire »
Visel A, Carson J, Oldekamp J, Warnecke M, Jakubcakova V, et al. (2007) Regulatory Pathway Analysis by High-Throughput In Situ Hybridization. PLoS Genet 3(10): e178 doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.0030178
I suspected that some simpler then the mouse model organism would be used for such systematic approaches, and Ciona intestinalis was one of my candidates, along with chick. Well, mouse [...]
Evidence of Same-Sex Mating
Posted in human pathogen, sex, taggé Cryptococcus neoformans, sexual reproduction, unisexual hybridization on octobre 22, 2007 | Aucun commentaire »
Lin X, Litvintseva AP, Nielsen K, Patel S, Floyd A, et al. (2007) αADα Hybrids of Cryptococcus neoformans: Evidence of Same-Sex Mating in Nature and Hybrid Fitness. PLoS Genet 3(10): e186 doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.0030186
I always suspected fungi to have the richest sexual life of all living beings. Now, with same-sex mating, they are a step ahead. There [...]
