Gene therapy success ‘reverses’ blindness

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Evolution happens, just like shit

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ScienceDaily Picks

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 [...]

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détente dominicale

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PLoS ONE Picks

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. [...]

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Spot The Fake Smile

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 [...]

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John Templeton Foundation – censorship – backstage

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 [...]

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Mechanism Of Epigenetic Inheritance Clarified

Mechanism Of Epigenetic Inheritance Clarified: (Apr. 24, 2008) — 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 the [...]

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Gene regulatory networks and embryonic specification

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 [...]

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John Templeton Foundation censorship

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. [...]

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