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Fun. Another day. Another YAMMGM (yet another mostly male genomics meeting). This one is the International Conference on Genomics Europe 2013. I have copied the program as it is now here and then highlighted the men and women as far as I can tell. And, well, it is not very balanced. It starts off, ironically, with "Omics and the future of man" and then stays on both omics and alas, men, for most of the meeting. The first woman does not talk until 5 pm […]
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# 7272 Declan Butler, writing for Nature News, has an update (and Google Earth Maps) on China’s H7N9 outbreak, and the apparent lull in cases over the past couple of weeks. Follow the link to read: Avian flu update: lull in new H7N9 cases Epidemic has spread to three more Chinese provinces, but no new cases reported since 7 May. Declan Butler Nature doi:10.1038/nature.2013.12910 14 May 2013 An update to
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Although it has only been around for 2 or 3 years, the QX100™ Droplet Digital™ PCR system from Bio-Rad Laboratories has already received a prestigious award, and has been groundbreaking research into HIV and GMO quantification. In this short period of time, close to 50 labs have chosen to add the QX100 system to their [...]
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# 7271 In what one hopes is not a case of art accurately anticipating the future, Steven Soderbergh’s 2011 pandemic thriller `Contagion’ showed what might happen if a bat-borne virus (dubbed MEV-1 in the movie) jumped species and sparked a human pandemic. In my review of the movie (see Why You Should Catch `Contagion’) I praised it for a realistic portrayal (with some dramatic license) of how the CDC would tackle an outbreak of a novel zoonotic
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These days, we have a pretty serious problem when it comes to our ability to kill resistant bacteria causing serious illness. People petition governments to urge action, while drug companies lament over how those pesky bacteria evolved to defeat their … Continue reading →
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Bacteria have a distinct metabolism which results in the production of bacteria-specific volatile organic compounds.The post Don’t hold your breath appeared first on MicrobiologyBytes.
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Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) machine in a ICU patient in Santa Cruz Hospital, Lisbon, Portugalj - Wikipedia # 7270 An update from the Centre Hospitalier Regionale et Universitaire de Lille, in France where two nCoV patients remain in their ICU; the index case who traveled to the UAE during the middle of April, and a second patient who shared a hospital room with him before he was diagnosed. Checkup of the two patients
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I joined Buddhini Samarasinghe, Scott Lewis, Tommy Leung, and William McEwan for a discussion of the avian influenza H5N1 virus transmission experiments done in ferrets.
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# 7269 Early last evening (EDT) FluTrackers picked up a KSA MOH report indicating they had confirmed four more cases of nCoV (novel coronavirus or MERS) infection – although details were sparse. Overnight Crof picked up a Reuters report - Saudi Arabia confirms four new MERS cases - confirming the story. Below you’ll find AFP’s version – which only tells us that one case has recovered, while three others remain hospitalized. 4 more cases
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I know I complain all the time about news stories and people "overselling the microbiome". Mind you, I believe microbial communities are likely to be found to have very very important roles in the biology of the plants and animals and other organisms on which they live, but I worry about overhyping the possibilities. But thankfully, there are some good researchers at work out there documenting just what the microbiome can and does do. And the results continue to be […]
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Someone from Australia asked me on the flight to the colonies what I though of President Obama. I said he was pretty good, being literate and all, but that he was disappointing. She said he was great. I don’t dabble … Continue reading →
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DNAinfo reports that Caribbean Soul is known in Clinton Hill for jazz music, jerk chicken wings and friendly service. But the Health Department recently closed the popular Fulton Street hangout citing improper refrigeration of food and evidence of mice, among … Continue reading →
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Maybe this is why few read the Atlantic anymore: because they keep reinventing stuff as news when it’s not. This time, it’s the risk of infant botulism, and why children under 1-years-old shouldn’t eat honey. According to James Hamblin of … Continue reading →
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In a lawsuit filed late last week, attorneys allege that lettuce sold by California-based Tanimura & Antle led to a Canadian woman’s E. coli infection. The family of a Canadian woman who allegedly died after eating E. coli-contaminated lettuce sold … Continue reading →
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Last month, Alissa and Greg Melton were the College Station, Texas, parents of three healthy boys and had another on the way. Then, three weeks ago, their two youngest – a toddler and preschooler – got perilously ill with a fierce strain … Continue reading →
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Anecdotally, I know it’s a bad idea to go shopping for groceries when I’m hungry. I buy all kinds of crap. According to Anahad O’Connor writing in The New York Times, the weight loss maxims found in diet books do … Continue reading →
