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Maternal health during gestation and prenatal conditions are well documented as having profound effects on health and development of a baby after birth. The mechanisms behind many of these effects are attributed to epigenetic changes that take place in utero. More recently, pre-fertilization maternal health has been also been implicated in affecting development of babies ...The post Yet Another Reason to Thank Dad This Father’s Day! Evidence for Paternally-Inherited Epigenetic Modifications
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Mychasiuk R, Harker A, Ilnytskyy S & Gibb R (2013). Paternal stress prior to conception alters DNA methylation and behaviour of developing rat offspring., Neuroscience, 241 100-5. PMID: 23531434
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The second day of the American Scientific Summit kicked off a bit early, especially for those of us who stayed up late to enjoy the excellent food and entertainment on Bourbon Street. The two themes of the morning were the changing landscape of medical genetics, and microbial detection and epigenetics.
First up was Richard Gibbs from the Baylor College of Medicine Human Genome Sequencing Center on the realities of clinical sequencing. He started off talking about predictability of future events
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First To 15: A Clever Bar Game that’s Easy to Win!
Simple numbers game that from one perspective looks like you’re very smart, but when you play it the right way, it’s totally dumb and easy. Can you get to 15 before your opponent?
One of my favorit magic related podcasts - 816 Podcast
816podcast.tumblr.com
via Scam School.
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Here is a screenshot of Thunderbird with the RSS feeds for "NCBI/pubmed: Exome Sequencing".
I'm pretty sure that all that (semantic) information is lost.
Dear editors, could you please ask the authors to complete or create an article in wikipedia about their paper once you have published it (possibly using a semantic template ?).
Thank you,
Pierre
See also We found a gene involved in a genetic
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A Week in Science with RiAus - 14 June 2013
This week:
A cheetah’s hunting success is due to their agility and acceleration, not just top speed
Modern humans migrated to Asia 50 to 60,000 years ago
Mum’s blood test for baby’s Down Syndrome
Obesity during pregnancy increases risk of preterm birth
Loggerhead turtles use sight to find food
Stem cells which can regrow digits are found near the nails
Babies develop feelings of sympathy at 10 months
You can follow A Week in Science throughout
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Say the letters “H M” to a neuroscientist, and chances are he or she will nod knowingly. H.M. …
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This is pretty much perfection: Source
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Great Minds - Goodall, Fossey & Galdikas
via scishow:
Today we know that humans and chimpanzees share 99% of their DNA and that we have a lot in common. Not just how we look, but how we behave, form groups, defend our turf, and love each other. People didn’t always see other primates this way, but in the 1960s and ’70s, some amazing intrepid women came along to turn primatology on its hairy head. Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey and Birute Galdikas studied chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans,
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The Scientific Secret of Strength and Muscle Growth
via asapscience:
It turns out that superhuman strength may not be so farfetched! After losing the Myostatin producing gene, many animals (including humans) increase muscle mass drastically.
See Jake’s SUPERMAN video: http://bit.ly/175JrZO
Check out 23andMe: http://bit.ly/13zNPet
Written and created by Mitchell Moffit (twitter @mitchellmoffit) and Gregory Brown (twitter @whalewatchmeplz).
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Time Capsule #4 - Phil’s Tiny Tuning Fork
Professor Philip Moriarty puts a “tuning fork” into the time capsule and talks about his work at the atomic level. More at http://www.test-tube.org.uk/capsule
Phil is a professor of physics at the University of Nottingham. More on his work at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHLyrc-uoIk
Also see Phil in action at Sixty Symbols and Numberphile:
http://www.youtube.com/sixtysymbols
http://www.youtube.com/numberphile
This film was shot and edited by
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Breast cancer, iPads, the Supreme Court's gene patent decision and more in this week's double edition of LabBook.
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While the forensic and general communities continue to argue about the merits of the recent Supreme Court ruling on collection of samples from arrestees prior to conviction, I am fascinated by the technology that make this question relevant. The conventional way of generating a DNA profile from a sample by STR (short tandem repeat) analysis […]
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Sick Science! #146 - Soda Can Shake Up
Have you ever wondered why shaking a soda results in a great explosion when it’s opened? What causes a 2-liter bottle of soda to go flat? Is there anything that can be done to keep fizz in a bottle of soda? Get ready to uncover some amazing soda secrets that will change your soda drinking habits.
via Steve Spangler Science.
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The horses bear a striking resemblance to those depicted in European cave paintings with short necks, spiky manes and a yellow hue.
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As a bone-a-fide dog lover, it gives me great pleasure to highlight Baynes and Agassiz Fuertes' beautifully illustrated "The Book of Dogs: an intimate study of mankind's best friend" as this week's book of the week. In it, the famous ornithologist and illustrator lends his hand to the descriptions and art of drawing various breeds of "man's best friend" while Baynes tells stories of dog fame, adventure, and heroism, such as this one about Red Cross dogs in WWI:pg. 55"The Red Cross dogs
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PS4B - Electromagnetic Radiation
In this video Paul Andersen describes some of the properties of electromagnetic radiation. The electromagnetic spectrum varies by wavelength from radio waves to gamma rays. We only see a portion of the spectrum known as visible light. A number of phenomenon (including refraction, emission spectrums, and gamma radiation) are discussed. A teaching progression K-12 is also included.
via Bozeman Biology.
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Last week I posted a photo of a very odd leaf structure that a co-worker at the National Wildlife Federation found in her yard in the Washington DC area. The cigar-shaped structure was created by an animal, and is something that most people don't regularly get to see. So I...
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Kayak That Folds Into A Suitcase
Anthony heads to Maker Faire and checks out one of the coolest things on the water. It’s called the Oru Kayak and it’s totally awesome!
via DNews Channel.
