links for 2011-01-17
Revealing the Dark Matter of the Genome | Science/AAAS "It is not currently possible to compute an organism from its genome, performing the transformation ...
Revealing the Dark Matter of the Genome | Science/AAAS "It is not currently possible to compute an organism from its genome, performing the transformation ...
Here’s a paper from September I haven’t had a chance to comment on. Zhang et al reported in Science (review, paper – subscription required) how two almost...
Lee and Mazmanian, from Caltech, published this great review in Science on microbes in the gut and how different bacteria might have been involved in the evolut...
Polaroid chairman pictures a bright future – The Boston Globe Analyst says, "“If someone is taking pictures at a party, those are almost immediately ...
There’s a theory going around to explain the rise in asthma: we’re too clean. Research in the past 5 years has slowly been teasing out how this might be. Link (...
Social Cruft "I think we’re in the awkward, adolescent stage of Mass Media adoption of social media. Eventually more sane minds will prevail and attention ...
The Great Beyond: A load of carp "Fear the Asian carp. The fish jump several feet into the air. And they are big–up to 80 pounds. They'll slap a...
Lizzie Buchen from Nature (link below) wrote a great article on some cool work folks are doing to change the way we view bacteria. For example, one group (like ...
To Fight Global Warming, Eat Bugs – ScienceNOW "Oonincx says that based on these results, insects do seem to put more of their food into growing plum...
Gulf Oil Spill Surprise: Methane Almost Gone "After months of speculation about what will happen to the Gulf oil spill, it turns out Mother Nature has roll...