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October 12, 2012

11:55 AM | In silico et vivo: When life science draws inspiration from video games

Before coming to New York, I led a dual life. During the work week, I was a neuroscientist in training. I went to class, handled monkeys, and took more than my fair share of grad school happy hour snacks. But when I wasn’t thinking about brains, I was usually thinking about games. I’ve bought nearly [...]

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Supreme Court rules natural genes not patentable

The Supreme Court ruled unanimously on Thursday, June 13th, that Myriad Genomics Inc. may not retain exclusive rights to the use of DNA sequence information for breast cancer associated genes BRCA1 and BRCA2, stating that Myriad had not created anything new in identifying the genes. Continue reading →

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Miki, Y., Swensen, J., Shattuck-Eidens, D., Futreal, P., Harshman, K., Tavtigian, S., Liu, Q., Cochran, C., Bennett, L., Ding, W. & et, A. (1994). A strong candidate for the breast and ovarian cancer susceptibility gene BRCA1, Science, 266 (5182) 66-71. DOI: 10.1126/science.7545954

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Hey boy, you really activate my ventral midbrain.

By Brooke Napier Scientists at CalTech simultaneously found a way to stimulate your midbrain without invasive methods (ie: opening up your skull) and make you find them attractive. Chib, et al. reported in Translational Psychiatry that by using their newly designed noninvasive method called transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) on the prefrontal cortex they were able to activate the interconnected midbrain. Why would you want to activate the midbrain? The ventral midbrain (also known […]

Chib VS, Yun K, Takahashi H & Shimojo S (2013). Noninvasive remote activation of the ventral midbrain by transcranial direct current stimulation of prefrontal cortex., Translational psychiatry, 3 PMID: 23756377

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Autoimmune disease as a risk factor for mood disorder?

Autoimmunity, the process by which the immune system fails to recognise self as self and subsequently targets those self tissues and cells, is something talked about quite a lot on this blog with autism specifically in mind. Part of the very wide and diverse immune-related features which have been discussed with at least some of the autisms in mind, it's not yet altogether clear exactly how and why autoimmunity is linked to behaviour but the association is an interesting one.Sally? @ […]

Benros ME, Waltoft BL, Nordentoft M, Ostergaard SD, Eaton WW, Krogh J & Mortensen PB (2013). Autoimmune Diseases and Severe Infections as Risk Factors for Mood Disorders: A Nationwide Study., JAMA psychiatry (Chicago, Ill.), 1-9. PMID: 23760347

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New Silicon Wafer Production Method to Make Solar Cells Cheaper

A team of researchers from the Nanoengineering Research Centre (CRNE) and the Department of Electronic Engineering at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya—BarcelonaTech (UPC) has found a way to manufacture crystalline silicon materials cheaper and faster. The results of their research have recently been published online in Applied Physics Letters. This thin crystalline silicon wafer production method can be used to fabricate the latest generation of solar cells. Read more »

Hernández, D., Trifonov, T., Garín, M. & Alcubilla, R. (2013). “Silicon millefeuille”: From a silicon wafer to multiple thin crystalline films in a single step, Applied Physics Letters, 102 (17) 172102. DOI: 10.1063/1.4803009

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After the Devastation: Is There Hope For Large Wildlife Conservation Following Mountaintop Removal?

By David Jachowski Photo by biotour13 via Flicker and a Creative Commons License  What if the future of biodiversity conservation isn't in National Parks and protected areas, but in abandoned places? The played-out farm fields or remains after mountaintop removal for a seam of coal. Those overused and now typically overlooked parcels of land that saw a brief boom in

Wood, P. & Williams, J. (2013). Impact of Valley Fills on Streamside Salamanders in Southern West Virginia, Journal of Herpetology, 47 (1) 119-125. DOI: 10.1670/11-187

Larkin, J., Maehr, D., Cox, J., Bolin, D. & Wichrowski, M. (2003). Demographic Characteristics of a Reintroduced Elk Population in Kentucky, The Journal of Wildlife Management, 67 (3) 467. DOI: 10.2307/3802704

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