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by siyer 10y ago
Specifically in the peripheral nervous system, there's been some work along these lines, primarily in anesthetized experiments, using ChR2-expressing stem cells, which integrate into denervated nerves, and enable optogenetic control of
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by siyer 10y ago
Within pharma, Derek Lowe has been blogging for many years, with a mix of posts focusing on new developments as well as broader strategic questions. http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/ The comment section there is al
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by siyer 10y ago
And you feel every ounce of those when reading them. Most good versions of this class of book are this heavy (typically prescribed for the late 'undergrad'/first year grad introductory class reading). The neuroscience equival
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by siyer 10y ago
It refers to the Graham Holdings Company which used to own The Washington Post, still owns Slate, and also owns Kaplan.
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by siyer 11y ago
See: http://www.ipscell.com/2016/01/patent-expert-weighs-in-on-cr... and https://law.stanford.edu/2015/12/29/the-crispr-patent-interf... They're mostly specific to Cas9.
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by siyer 11y ago
See also: Ed Yong in The Atlantic, who has a nice story on this that includes some rather fun sentences [1]: http://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/01/youre-pro... [1] Such as: "In 2014, Ju
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by siyer 11y ago
On the mechanistic side of things, http://www.pnas.org/content/112/26/8106.short is one of the more interesting papers to come out recently on ketamine's mode of action.
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by siyer 11y ago
Stanford's release on this goes into more scientific detail, and has a nice interview with the senior author in which she discusses the background behind the work. http://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2015&#x
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by siyer 12y ago
The first author of that paper did an AMA on reddit.com/r/science that you may find interesting as an update on where things stand: http://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/2tykiu/
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by siyer 12y ago
The article is here (the link in the popsci article doesn't work for me): http://stm.sciencemag.org/content/7/278/278ra33.full There's a news article about the paper that Science wrote up, which g
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by siyer 12y ago
Andy Weir gave a fun talk at Google about his experiences writing the book/some of the software he used to help him in his planning. You can find it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMfuLtjgzA8
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by siyer 12y ago
I did an AMA on /r/science early in 2014 when the paper I'd been working on for most of my PhD came out [1], and it was a very fun experience - lots of great questions, good back-and-forth, and it meant that massively more pe
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by siyer 12y ago
Polices tend to be lab and department specific. Most everyone I know if reimbursed for flights and hotels (though they are typically required to apply for internal travel grants that exist for this purpose). Food reimbursement varies from l
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by siyer 12y ago
"[T]he New York Sun dropped a bombshell of a story: Astronomer Sir John Herschel had erected an enormous telescope in South Africa that could magnify celestial bodies an astounding 42,000 times. And when he pointed it at the moon he sa
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by siyer 12y ago
It's perhaps more precise to say that some biologists disagree (as is perhaps inevitable). Alon's book is was the required textbook for the Systems Bioengineering (III) class at Johns Hopkins as of 5 years ago (which is when I t
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by siyer 12y ago
I thought this article was one of the best descriptions I've seen of the perils (both personal and teleological) of the scientific process. "We should celebrate scientists not solely for their accomplishments but also for their co
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My Great-Great-Aunt Discovered Francium, and It Killed Her(nytimes.com)
145 points by siyer 12y ago|19 comments
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Watch people share that they've voted across the US(facebook.com)
4 points by siyer 12y ago|0 comments
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The Geography of Foreign Students in U.S. Higher Education(brookings.edu)
4 points by siyer 12y ago|0 comments
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A Consensus on the Brain Training Industry from the Scientific Community(longevity3.stanford.edu)
1 points by siyer 12y ago|0 comments
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by siyer 12y ago
The authors have uploaded a copy of the paper which can be accessed here: http://hsci.harvard.edu/files/hsci/files/pagliuca_et_al_cell... (I'd actually recommend giving the paper a skim even if you'
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by siyer 12y ago
I work in the field, so I thought I'd chime in here. Our lab (and others) have published a few papers on using optogenetics to control peripheral nervous system targets, but as some of the other commenters have mentioned, it's ver
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Blue Chip – Shuji Nakamura beat the titans to blue LEDs and laser (2000)(scientificamerican.com)
8 points by siyer 12y ago|1 comments
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by siyer 12y ago
No one should be using mercola.com as a source for information on anything. It's one of the most well-known dens of harmful and dangerous pseudoscience on the internet (see: http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/joe-merco
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by siyer 12y ago
My point is more that there are differing levels of the prior probability of a study being true. Yes, 'xxx affected by cell phones' stories are bunk, however, those stories tend not to be published in Nature Methods, tend not to c
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by siyer 12y ago
"and the mechanism is likely keyed off of testosterone in general rather than mouse smells in particular, which seems reasonable." Yes, this is what Figure 1c and 1d of the paper demonstrate. (To be precise, not testosterone, but
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by siyer 12y ago
The current changed title is overbroad, it's certainly not shown by this study that experimenter sex is an issue in all animal research. I would simply suggest the title of the paper itself: "Olfactory exposure to males, including
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by siyer 12y ago
This is just reflexive HN negativity. As a pain researcher who's completely unaffiliated with the group that did this work, I find this to be an excellent paper - carefully done, with good controls, standard sample sizes for the field,
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by siyer 12y ago
The keyboard shortcuts are completely editable if you go into the various .bind files (When similar things happened to me in the past, I made a couple of quick fixes to those and got keyboard shortcuts working beautifully again).