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Music Monday: Sequester Blues 27 Aug 2013 | 04:27 am
The sequester is hitting science funding in the US pretty hard. Francis Collins, the director of the NIH, is lobbying any way he can to get the NIH off the hook. In 2013, there will be 700 fewer g...
On Joke Papers, Hoaxes, and Pirates 14 Aug 2013 | 08:39 pm
“Our aim here is to maximize amusement, rather than coherence.” SCIgen developers Joke papers have been known to sneak into otherwise serious publications. Notably, in the Sokal Affair, Alan Sokal, ...
Music Monday: Imuhar / Bombino 12 Aug 2013 | 10:17 pm
My favorite track from Bombino’s latest album Nomad. Tuareg blues.
Aphid attacks should be reported through the fungusphone 4 Aug 2013 | 02:03 am
We like to think of ourselves as the better results of evolution. We humans are particularly proud of our ability to communicate, having invented cell phones, the Internet, and extended forelimb digit...
Music Friday: Brushy One String / Chicken in the Corn 2 Aug 2013 | 07:46 pm
Brushy One String. Pretty amazing.
Squeezing DNA 25 Jul 2013 | 08:02 pm
The state of biology today: Our main problem is turning these DNA data into useful information. Finding genes and other functional genomic element, characterizing them, understanding their functio...
New Links between Bacteria and Cancer 24 Jun 2013 | 06:37 am
Microbiology and Cancer Cancer and microbiology have been closely linked for over 100 years. Cancer patients are usually immunosuppressed due to chemotherapy, requiring special treatment and conditio...
SCOTUS: DNA is information, not a chemical 14 Jun 2013 | 03:32 am
Should DNA be subject to copyright law, rather than patent law? Section 101 of Title 35 U.S.C. sets out the subject matter that can be patented: Whoever invents or discovers any new and useful process...
The allure of the superficial 2 Jun 2013 | 04:06 am
A new paper from my lab and Patsy Babbitt’s lab in UCSF has recently been published in PLoS Computational Biology. It is something of a cautionary tale for quantitative biologists, especially bioin...
Bats use blood to reshape tongue for feeding 22 May 2013 | 08:06 pm
Great bit of research showing the amazing adaptation of bat tongues to nectar feeding. Harper, C., Swartz, S., & Brainerd, E. (2013). Specialized bat tongue is a hemodynamic nectar mop Proceedings o...
