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Mental Burdocks: HHMI, Max Planck and Wellcome Trust Announce Plans for new Open Access Journal
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Science and Technology That Sticks in My Head. Monday, June 27, 2011. HHMI, Max Planck and Wellcome Trust Announce Plans for new Open Access Journal. The top-tier organizations in the biomedical and life sciences have announced plans. To launch an open access. Journal in the summer of 2012. The plans are the result of a 2010 workshop at HHMI's Janelia Farm. There is hope that this kind of approach to sharing of research findings can help speed the pace of discovery. June 27, 2011 at 4:25 PM.
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Mental Burdocks: March 2011
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Science and Technology That Sticks in My Head. Wednesday, March 2, 2011. Next-Gen Sequencing in the Nic of Time. The Milwaukee-Wisconsin Journal Sentinel has an in-depth write-up. On Nic Volker, the young boy with a incredible story of disease and recovery based in next-generation sequencing. George Church. Pioneering the Harvard/MIT geneticist, briefly cited this [at that time anonymous] case in his evening keynote back at the Harvard BioMed HPC Summit. UPDATE 6/28/11 - Another similar story. Just came ...
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Mental Burdocks: Next-Gen Sequencing in the Nic of Time
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Science and Technology That Sticks in My Head. Wednesday, March 2, 2011. Next-Gen Sequencing in the Nic of Time. The Milwaukee-Wisconsin Journal Sentinel has an in-depth write-up. On Nic Volker, the young boy with a incredible story of disease and recovery based in next-generation sequencing. George Church. Pioneering the Harvard/MIT geneticist, briefly cited this [at that time anonymous] case in his evening keynote back at the Harvard BioMed HPC Summit. UPDATE 6/28/11 - Another similar story. Just came ...
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Mental Burdocks: April 2010
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Science and Technology That Sticks in My Head. Thursday, April 22, 2010. Matthew Trunnell on Data Management Challenges at The Broad. Matthew Trunnell, Acting Director, Advanced IT, Broad Institute gave a talk in Track 1 Infrastructure - Hardware at Bio-IT World on Adjusting to the New Scale of Research Data Management. Software that is derived from the Storage Resource Broker (SRB) from UCSD Supercomputer Center. SRB and variants have made fairly substantial penetration into large-scale data managem...
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Mental Burdocks: September 2010
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Science and Technology That Sticks in My Head. Wednesday, September 1, 2010. A friend forward a link to a very interesting study. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). I've had a life-long interest in science and technology, and have the good fortune to work in a position that brings the two together. This space is where the items I read about that aren't directly related to work end up. Subscribe To Mental Burdocks.
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Mental Burdocks: May 2010
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Science and Technology That Sticks in My Head. Saturday, May 29, 2010. Have developed a method of applying stem cells to scaffolding infused with growth hormone to grow teeth in a little as nine weeks in an animal model. A major move forward here has been to growth the teeth in situ instead of in the laboratory, which improves their final shape. Thursday, May 27, 2010. One Mutation for Every Three Cigarettes. If you need more evidence that cigarettes are tremendously unhealthy, Genentech. To focus on the...
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Mental Burdocks: Cars That Drive Themselves Pass the 1000 Mile Mark
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Science and Technology That Sticks in My Head. Monday, October 11, 2010. Cars That Drive Themselves Pass the 1000 Mile Mark. Not a new story per se, but interesting in that Google has been testing autonomous cars in traffic, and they've gone 1000 miles without human intervention (and 140,000 miles with only occasional intervention). The NY Times story. UPDATE: Deepak Singh has an interesting post. On this kind of speculative research. Now one for the men and women who have served us. To Dr R Brand.
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Mental Burdocks: August 2011
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Science and Technology That Sticks in My Head. Tuesday, August 30, 2011. In what might be the the quintessential post for a blog titled Mental Burdocks, I wanted to point out a recent microbiome. Study that suggests there is a potential for gut bacteria to have impacts on the mind and mood. Researchers found that mice fed widely available probiotic Lactobacillus bacteria showed fewer signs of stress and a greater inclination towards exploration. UPDATE 8/31: Another new study. Doesn't turn up much. UPDAT...
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Mental Burdocks: January 2011
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Science and Technology That Sticks in My Head. Tuesday, January 25, 2011. Slightly off-topic, but I'm a big fan of fixing things, and that often requires a handy tool. I carried a Swiss Army knife for many years, and then Leathermans once they came on the scene. It's remarkable how similar an 1,800 old year Roman tool. Is to those of today. The other must-have is a small waterproof LED flashlight, but that's a topic for another post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Subscribe To Mental Burdocks.
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Mental Burdocks: October 2010
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Science and Technology That Sticks in My Head. Monday, October 11, 2010. 50 Ideas to Change Science: MPD. Own Mouse Phenome Database. Has made NewScientist's list of 50 Ideas to Change Science. Are now springing up. From personalised medicine to our understanding of evolution, science will be the beneficiary.". Cars That Drive Themselves Pass the 1000 Mile Mark. Suggests that autonomous vehicles have the potential to transform society as dramatically as the Internet. It would certainly fix the textin...
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