in and around the lab

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jtotheizzoe:

A new series on BBC Radio 4 features Richard Dawkins celebrating the history and significance of sequencing the entire human genome … all those little A’s, C’s, G’s and T’s that make up what you are.

What can we learn about our history and future from the letters in our genome?  Assuming I remember to, I’ll post links to these episodes regularly.  Guests in this episode include Francis Collins, Craig Venter and more.

 Social network analysis - yet another (more scientific, less subjective) way to evaluate individual efficiency and strategies … in football as well. ( a PLoS ONE article)

The louse relies on Riesia, an obligatory louse bacterial endosymbiont that lacks antibiotic resistance genes, for survival; thus, the development of louse-control strategies targeting this symbiont may be possible.

Today I have decided to join the Debrecen (Hungary) group of the International Genetically Engineered Machine competition (iGEM).

“We would like to facilitate the design of diagnostic and medical applications on a synthetic biology basis.”

I am looking forward the challenges of this summer and willing to post the important events and developments of the group.  

A must-read for everyone into bio/pharma/gen/med or whatever:

“The casual observer, then, might be forgiven for thinking the whole thing a damp squib, and the $3 billion spent on the project to be so much wasted money. But the casual observer would be wrong.”

  Coding the facial expressions for pain in the lab mouse. That’s an interesting NatMeth article with a funny image.   (NeuroskepticBlog)

  A summary of the AnnNeur and PNAS articles on connecting a obesity risk allele to (BMI and) changed brain sturcture, Alzheimer’s and dementia. (ScienceBlogs)

 A goldmine for everyone willing to gain some knowledge on basically any topic. Courses, lectures from dozens of universities all around the world.

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  It looks great, but wouldn’t inhibiting angiogenesis, even in the lack of a formed cancer (as a prevention), mean disturbing the original balance? I admit that I did not check the article mentioned here, but showing obesity as an angiogenic problem looks like an oversimplification. I wonder what “mouse model” is the obese one here.

  Still an interesting presentation.