Blind Watchmaker

I hope he named his program William Paley!
HT PZ Myers

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Robotics + Creator = So funny from cectic.com

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Enhanced phytoremediation of volatile environmental pollutants with transgenic trees

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. [...]

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Watson’s folly

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 [...]

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the noblest tradition of science

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 [...]

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PLoS ONE Picks

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, [...]

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The Tables serie: Table 1-Highly Integrated Molecular Diagnostic Platforms

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 [...]

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ESF meeting sets cornerstone for science communication

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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 [...]

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Regulatory Pathway Analysis by High-Throughput In Situ Hybridization

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 [...]

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Evidence of Same-Sex Mating

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 [...]

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