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Charges initiated against Pope for crimes against humanity

Their charges concern “three worldwide crimes which until now have not been denounced . . . (as) the traditional reverence toward ‘ecclesiastical authority’ has clouded the sense of right and wrong”.

Makes sense!

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Sarkozy Announces Debate to Define Islam’s Future Role in France

“In a secular country, we cannot tolerate having a public call to prayer.”

He is right on that, these Sunday morning bells are quite annoying, too, hope the chanoine Sarkozy will take care of them.

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The Truth, Man

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The Care And Feeding Of Dragons

If you want to own a dragon, there’s some things you ought to know…

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Data minding

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Chemotaxis gone wrong

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Src activates HIF-1α not through direct phosphorylation of HIF-1α-specific prolyl-4 hydroxylase 2 but through activation of the NADPH oxidase/Rac pathway

Src activates HIF-1α not through direct phosphorylation of HIF-1α-specific prolyl-4 hydroxylase 2 but through activation of the NADPH oxidase/Rac pathway

Ho-Youl Lee, Taekyong Lee, Naery Lee, Eun Gyeong Yang, Cheolju Lee, Jonghyun Lee, Eun-Yi Moon, Joohun Ha and Hyunsung Park

Carcinogenesis (2011) doi: 10.1093/carcin/bgr034 First published online: February 18, 2011

Morphological change in machines accelerates the evolution of robust behavior

Morphological change in machines accelerates the evolution of robust behavior

Josh Bongar

PNAS January 25, 2011 vol. 108 no. 4 1234-1239 doi: 10.1073/pnas.1015390108

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Looking proximally and distally: 100 years of limb regeneration and beyond

David L. Stocum, Jo Ann Cameron

Developmental DynamicsArticle first published online: 2 feb 2011 DOI: 10.1002/dvdy.22553

wrapping pigeons

I’m much into birds and foldings the few last days and I came across the method of wrapping carrier pigeons

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Wnt1 is a proangiogenic molecule, enhances human endothelial progenitor function, and increases blood flow to ischemic limbs in a HGF-dependent manner

Wnt1 is a proangiogenic molecule, enhances human endothelial progenitor function, and increases blood flow to ischemic limbs in a HGF-dependent manner

Costin M. Gherghe, Jinzhu Duan, Jucheng Gong, Mauricio Rojas, Nancy Klauber-Demore, Mark Majesky, and Arjun Deb

FASEB J fj.10-172981; published ahead of print February 14, 2011, doi: 10.1096/fj.10-172981

Notch1 in Bone Marrow–Derived Cells Mediates Cardiac Repair After Myocardial Infarction

Notch1 in Bone Marrow–Derived Cells Mediates Cardiac Repair After Myocardial Infarction

Yuxin Li, Yukio Hiroi, Soeun Ngoy, BS; Ryuji Okamoto, Kensuke Noma, Chao-Yung Wang, MD; Hong-Wei Wang, Qian Zhou, MD; Freddy Radtke, Ronglih Liao, PhD James K. Liao

Circulation. 2011 Published online before print February 14, 2011, doi: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.110.947531

Genome-wide association studies in multiple sclerosis: lessons and future prospects

Genome-wide association studies in multiple sclerosis: lessons and future prospects

Anu Kemppinen, Stephen Sawcer, Alastair Compston

Briefings in Functional Genomics (2011) First published online: February 10, 2011 doi: 10.1093/bfgp/elr004

The Etiology of Multiple Sclerosis: Genetic Evidence for the Involvement of the Human Endogenous Retrovirus HERV-Fc1

The Etiology of Multiple Sclerosis: Genetic Evidence for the Involvement of the Human Endogenous Retrovirus HERV-Fc1

Nexø BA, Christensen T, Frederiksen J, Møller-Larsen A, Oturai AB, et al.

PLoS ONE 6(2): e16652. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.001