Associated PressBad news for Benedict?Ever wonder why so much health news seems contradictory? One week theres a study saying that drinking coffee raises the risk of pancreatic cancer, or miscarriage, or lowers the risk of colorectal cancer; a few weeks later,

http://feeds.wsjonline.com/~r/wsj/health/feed/~3/UPz6h6y9OPI/

Since youre a Bitesize Bio reader, youre well aware that there is an abundance of both broad and specialized bioinformatics tools freely available for researchersif you know where and how to find them.Recently emerging is a push to combine or link some of the

http://bitesizebio.com/2009/01/26/taming-the-data-stampede-with-wikis/

Another mechanism by which synonymous mutations may affect protein function is by altering the kinetics of protein folding. Researchers have proposed that synonymous substitutions that change a codon read by an abundant tRNA to a codon read by a rare tRNA could

http://feeds.nature.com/~r/chemistry/rss/the_sceptical_chymist_with_comm...

I have decided to post a question here to my blog requesting help from phylogeneticists everywhere in doing phylogenetic analysis of data from metagenomic projects. Here I will try to describe the problem and then hopefully people out there can chime in on

http://phylogenomics.blogspot.com/2008/01/calling-all-phylogeneticists-w...

Altruism is a very heavily loaded word  in evolutionary psychology/ biology and I would not add to the confusion by defining the term myself. Suffice it to say , that I will use it in all of its various intuitive and theoretical usages. The evolution of

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheMouseTrap/~3/OpyEo87DPz8/varieties-of-...

Altruism is a very heavily loaded word  in evolutionary psychology/ biology and I would not add to the confusion by defining the term myself. Suffice it to say , that I will use it in all of its various intuitive and theoretical usages. The evolution of

http://the-mouse-trap.blogspot.com/2009/01/varieties-of-altrusitic-exper...

Just a little plug for a new paper of which I am a co-author. This is a report on the analysis of the genome sequence of Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans which was just published in BMC Genomics (an open access journal, by the way). This paper was a long long

http://phylogenomics.blogspot.com/2009/01/acid-rock-bacteria-genome.html

It is with great sadness that I learned that Dr.Greg Cahill died a few days ago, at the Houston airport, waiting for his flight. I have met Greg at several meetings of the Society for Research on Biological Rhythms and while, those being fairly large meetings,

http://www.scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/12/greg_cahill_19582008.php

A 21st century plague might be called the "Syndrome of Inappropriate Over-Confidence in Computing" (SICC syndrome for short).It's bad enough that we are placing major decisions about industrial policy at the tender mercies of computer models. For example, whether

http://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/2008/12/21st-century-plague-syndrome-of.html

No, not really. Mind reading software cannot record your dreams:'Mind-reading' software could record your dreams18:05 12 December 2008 by Celeste BieverPictures you are observing can now be recreated with software that uses nothing but scans of your brain.

http://neurocritic.blogspot.com/2008/12/more-mindreading.html

Pages: 1 2 3 Next »     Single Page As another year comes to a close, it’s time to review what made the biggest news in 2008 in mental health and psychology. Of course, the biggest news of the year — the historic election of

http://psychcentral.com/blog/archives/2008/12/17/mental-health-year-in-r...

Here's the abstract from a recent article in Neuron:Visual Image Reconstruction from Human Brain Activity using a Combination of Multiscale Local Image Decoders Yoichi Miyawaki1, 2, 6, Hajime Uchida2, 3, 6, Okito Yamashita2, Masa-aki Sato2, Yusuke Morito4,

http://kolber.typepad.com/ethics_law_blog/2008/12/fmri-visual-image-reco...

350James Hansen, NASA's chief climate scientist and the first to warn about global warming more than two decades ago, recently wrote: If humanity wishes to preserve a planet similar to that on which civilization developed and to which life on Earth is adapted,

http://crnano.typepad.com/crnblog/2008/12/350-or-bust.html

Before a clinical trial can commence a protocol - a plan of exactly how a trial will be conducted - will be formulated. As part of the planning, the individuals undertaking the trial will calculate approximately how many patients need to take part for the results

http://www.helenjaques.co.uk/blog/2008/are-researchers-fudging-clinical-...

Nice little bit in the New York Times tomorrow about aphids and their symbionts. Henry Fountain writes (Observatory - How Tiny Insects, With a Little Help, Survive on Plant Sap - NYTimes.com) about a new article by Angela Douglas, one of the true pioneers of

http://phylogenomics.blogspot.com/2008/12/aphid-bacterial-symbiosis-in-m...

Publication bias became a big blogging topic last week as a PLoS Medicine paper was picked up by several influential sites. Lisa Bero and colleagues found that a quarter of trials submitted to the Food and Drug Administration between 2001 and 2002 in support

http://www.plos.org/cms/node/424

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http://clinpsyc.blogspot.com/2008/12/lamictal-break-out-shovel.html

Drug companies are not publishing all the trial data that they submit to the FDA, and those trials that are published are more likely to show positive results. Rising et al. compared all the New Drug Applications (NDAs) (the vehicle for initiating a new clinical

http://www.scienceblogs.com/purepedantry/2008/12/drug_trial_publication_...

Maxine Clarke, Positive skew of clinical-trial publication, Peer-to-Peer, November 27, 2008. A news story in Nature Medicine discusses an investigation into the publication status of the clinical-trials literature, which concludes that positive results of clinical

http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2008/11/impact-of-oa-to-clinical-tria...

A news story in Nature Medicine (14, 1133; 2008) discusses an investigation into the publication status of the clinical-trials literature (PLoS Med., doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0050191; 2008), which concludes that positive results of clinical trials for drugs

http://blogs.nature.com/peer-to-peer/2008/11/positive_skew_of_clinicaltr...

A news story in Nature Medicine (14, 1133; 2008) discusses an investigation into the publication status of the clinical-trials literature (PLoS Med., doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0050191; 2008), which concludes that positive results of clinical trials for drugs

http://feeds.nature.com/~r/peer_review/rss/peer_to_peer/~3/481916490/pos...

For all out there who love ciliates and their relatives, you might want to check out the second paper to come out of my Tetrahymena thermophila Genome Sequencing Project for which the preprint is available in BMC Genomics. In this project we have been sequencing,

http://phylogenomics.blogspot.com/2008/11/tackling-hairy-beast-ii.html

Dana's online mind and brain magazine Cerebrum has a critical and thought-provoking article arguing that mental illnesses like ADHD and child bipolar disorder are too often being used as fig leaves for social problems that we prefer to think of as blame-free

http://www.mindhacks.com/blog/2008/11/mental_illness_in_ch.html

According to John Ioannidis, most published research findings are false. This is because of the Winner’s Curse: scientists need to oversell to get heard, published and funded.Does this affect agrobiodiversity research?Yes, it does.Take this press release

http://agro.biodiver.se/2008/11/truth-or-consequences/

Michael Nierenberg, Medical Director of Navigenics comments on “Absence of High Penetrance in SNP Genomic Services” regarding my statement “existing SNP genomic services just arent that useful.” (comment appended below)Rather than entertain

http://www.thinkgene.com/challenge-to-michael-nierenberg-medical-directo...

by Merry and ElioOrganelles were endosymbionts that either made good or were enslaved, depending on your point of view. Either way, some of their genes now reside in the nuclear genome of their eukaryote host. We also know that there are some bacterial endosymbionts

http://schaechter.asmblog.org/schaechter/2008/11/jumping-genes-wolbachia...

Continuing with the series of posts highlighting sessions in the Program at the upcoming ScienceOnline09, here are some sessions that deal with collaboration and networking between scientists and between their data.Community intelligence applied to gene annotation:This

http://www.scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/11/scienceonline09_tapping_into_t...

news.thinkgene.comTop 10 genomic news as voted by the genomics community. Week of 19 Oct 08PLoS Medicine - Why Most Published Research Findings Are FalseYouTube - Current Issues in Computational Biology and BioinformaticsAfter whole genome sequencing comes

http://www.thinkgene.com/top-10-genomics-news-from-newsthinkgenecom-week...