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@carlzimmer @mike_edmond @eliowa what screens are run on donors? Isn't there a real risk of transmitting pathogens?
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The paperwork begins for fecal transplants-- @mike_edmond explains what it means for him as a doctor. haicontroversies.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-ki… via @eliowa
Fecal transplants are all grown up. The FDA is getting involved. medpagetoday.com/InfectiousDise… via @phylogenomics cc @marynmck
Ok, here's the finals version of that song, via @tharsheblows: youtube.com/watch?v=maX7In… I feel like I have babesiosis.
From Sept 2012 to date, WHO has been informed of a global total of 41 laboratory-confirmed novel coronavirus cases, incl 20 deaths #nCoV
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Goldman Sachs makes a $500 million bet on Elon Musk’s #solar business: ow.ly/l8bpc
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UPDATE: More than 20 people were injured in today's train collision: bit.ly/112s5TZ
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All service New York (NYP) to Boston (BOS) suspended indefinitely by track obstruction.
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Half a dozen diagnoses for @maiasz shows what's amiss w/the DSM, & why genetics & neuroscience aren't ready to help. healthland.time.com/2013/05/17/vie…
This is your brain, on Earth. ESA neurological experiment measuring brainwave changes as I adapted to and from 0G. pic.twitter.com/j4qZ5kGmro
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Bacteria have evolved to eat the new pollution we've created. But they're still novices. phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2013/05/17/med…
New on the Loom: A tale of deadly poison and mediocre evolution in our own time. phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2013/05/17/med…
@carlzimmer A great talk at #bog13 (with *definitely* the cutest slides) about these silver foxes, looking at the genetics of domestication
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For more on domesticated foxes, here's a long 1999 article on the 50+-year experiment in Russia. americanscientist.org/issues/pub/ear…
Brain chemistry changes in tamed foxes. sciencenews.org/view/generic/i… Will be interesting to compare to dog brain genes. nytimes.com/glogin?URI=htt…
On @Medium, I share my thoughts with @AdrienneLaF about the tricky naming of tragedies, from 9/11 to Boston bombings. medium.com/its-complicate…
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Ebooks on floppy disks. Yeah, that's the future! bogost.com/blog/the_elect…
My new Matter column for the New York Times: The genes for dog brains (and our own). nytimes.com/2013/05/16/sci…
OK: a candidate for YAGS (Yet Another Genome Syndrome) of @carlzimmer but still - it is the scarlet macaw genome ... sciencecodex.com/saving_the_par…
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.@overbye on the (possibly) crippling blow to @NASAKepler & the search for planets out there like ours. nytimes.com/2013/05/16/sci…
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Couldn't resist commenting on this absurd post claiming vitamin D cures cancer by suppressing BRCA1. naturalnews.com/040349_Angelin…
I've set up an Authorgraph account for signing ebooks. Shall we try it out? authorgraph.com/authors/carlzi…
Novel coronavirus in Saudi Arabia: This is the first time health-care workers have been confirmed with #nCoV from exposure to patients
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Kind of morbid that I've catalogued dozens of ways ants die alexanderwild.com/Ants/Natural-H…
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Stronger biceps predicts stronger political attitudes about wealth redistribution in men pss.sagepub.com/content/early/…
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@carlzimmer at a doe meeting and hearing some shocking things from Yuri Gorby - there is a website frackingourfuture.org what's the story?
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MT @gilbertjacka: do you know about the severe health impacts for gas field residents in south west Pennsylvania - who's dealing with this?
Human embryonic stem cells "cloned" and differentiated into cell lines for the first time usatoday.com/story/news/201…
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In Nature, @Tim_Appenzeller writes about the earliest art in Europe--by Neanderthals? nature.com/news/neanderth… h/t @ewencallaway
Georgia Tech starts online computer science masters program. 10k students, $7k/student. Handful of new instructors. insidehighered.com/news/2013/05/1…
Congrats to @virginiahughes for writing Scienceseeker's blog post of the year! blog.scienceseeker.org/announcing-the… (The post: lastwordonnothing.com/2012/11/22/re-… )
RT @MartinDoms: @carlzimmer More Science Ink Sunday! CZ: Will do. Stay tuned on Sunday.
Ugh. GMOs cause Alzheimer's, autism, Parkinson's, diabetes, etc? blogs.discovermagazine.com/collideascape/… Are they also a floor wax? nbc.com/saturday-night…
Livechat with @Annaleen on her new book about mass extinctions & humanity's future starting...now. io9.com/talk-about-the…
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For context to Angelina Jolie's mastectomy op-ed nytimes.com/2013/05/14/opi… I've written about BRCA1's natural history phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2013/05/14/tra…
Here's a @nytimes video introducing my new column. nytimes.com/video/2013/05/…
Spacecraft #Soyuz lands on earth with @Cmdr_Hadfield and crewmates from International Space Station reut.rs/WatchThis #ISS
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Taliban's war on polio vaccinations over? telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews…
The MyConnectome Project has a new site myconnectome.org - tracking brain function in a single person over an entire year
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On a train, desperate for essays of EB White, but nobody sells it in ebook form. #kindlefail
In case you missed this late-Friday post: How HIV unveiled a virus hiding in our genome for 6 million years on.natgeo.com/10tuJSO
The carnivorous bladderwort plant has a tiny minimalist genome because it got rid of most of its "junk" DNA. phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2013/05/12/fle…
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The Current Empirical Evidence Base for Psychoanalysis ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2366096… ...is thin. Just 14 studies 1970-2011, most not randomized.
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