Gene therapy success ‘reverses’ blindness
Posted in gene therapy, taggé newscientist on avril 30, 2008 | Aucun commentaire »
Archives pour avril 2008
Evolution happens, just like shit
Posted in evolution, humor on avril 29, 2008 | Aucun commentaire »
ScienceDaily Picks
Posted in science daily on avril 29, 2008 | Aucun commentaire »
Hypnosis: The Key To Unlocking The Delusional Mind?: (Apr. 29, 2008 ) — Researchers at Macquarie University have developed an original new approach to the study of delusions, using hypnosis to temporarily create typical delusional beliefs in otherwise non-delusional people.
This study has laid the groundwork for future experiments which will examine the features and parameters [...]
détente dominicale
Posted in huh?, humor on avril 27, 2008 | Aucun commentaire »
PLoS ONE Picks
Posted in PLoS ONE on avril 26, 2008 | Aucun commentaire »
Kerkhoven RM, Sie D, Nieuwland M, Heimerikx M, De Ronde J, et al. (2008 ) The T7-Primer Is a Source of Experimental Bias and Introduces Variability between Microarray Platforms. PLoS ONE 3(4): e1980. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0001980
Guyader S, Burch CL (2008 ) Optimal Foraging Predicts the Ecology but Not the Evolution of Host Specialization in Bacteriophages. [...]
Spot The Fake Smile
Posted in Interesting stuff, internets picks on avril 26, 2008 | Aucun commentaire »
This experiment is designed to test whether you can spot the difference between a fake smile and a real one
It has 20 questions and should take you 10 minutes
It is based on research by Professor Paul Ekman, a psychologist at the University of California
Each video clip will take approximately 15 seconds to load on a [...]
John Templeton Foundation - censorship - backstage
Posted in scienligion, taggé censorship, John Templeton Foundation on avril 26, 2008 | 1 Commentaire »
My e-mail message concerning the censored comment I left at the Templeton Conversation “Belief” page, received a prompt response, thanks to Charles Harper I suppose. Previous experience showed that other people wasn’t quite responsive.
Gary R, Chief External Affairs Officer of JTF was the main contact. He granted permission to display his messages, so below the [...]
Mechanism Of Epigenetic Inheritance Clarified
Posted in Uncategorized, taggé bad scientific journalism, twt on avril 25, 2008 | Aucun commentaire »
Mechanism Of Epigenetic Inheritance Clarified: (Apr. 24, 200 — Although letters representing the three billion pairs of molecules that form the ‘rungs’ of the helical DNA ‘ladder’ are routinely called the human ‘genetic code,’ the DNA they comprise transmits traits across generations in a variety of ways, not all of which depend on [...]
Gene regulatory networks and embryonic specification
Posted in bioinformatics, development, genome, taggé twt on avril 24, 2008 | 4 Commentaires »
Leroy Hood a le beau rôle du défenseur de la biologie des systèmes qui présente un bijou du domaine, le travail de Oliveri, Tu et Davidson, publié dans le même numéro des PNAS (Global regulatory logic for specification of an embryonic cell lineage)
C’est Timothée qui a attiré mon attention sur les deux papiers, et je [...]
John Templeton Foundation censorship
Posted in science & religion, scienligion, taggé censorship, John Templeton Foundation, JTF on avril 23, 2008 | 1 Commentaire »
update added at the end of this post
Honorable people doesn’t practice censorship and/or heavily truncate comments left on their website.
John Templeton Foundation’s people practice censorship and/or text truncation
John Templeton Foundation’s people aren’t honorable
A couple of days ago I posted a commentary to JTF’s website, at the “Does science make belief in God obsolete?” page. [...]
