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From ELIE DOLGIN, The Scientist,  10 Nov 2009

Deconstructing structure

D. Falush et al., “Inference of population structure using multilocus genotype data: dominant markers and null alleles,” Mol Ecol Notes, 7:574–78, 2007. (Cited in 91 papers) University College Cork’s Daniel Falush and the University of Chicago’s ...

From ELIE DOLGIN, The Scientist,  28 Oct 2009

Down memory lane

A. Fischer et al., “Recovery of learning and memory is associated with chromatin remodeling,” Nature, 447:178–82, 2007. (Cited in 82 papers) Li-Huei Tsai and colleagues at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology showed that mentally stimulating ...

From ELIE DOLGIN, The Scientist,  21 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Evolution, Resisted

Entomologist Simon Blanford attaches a spray nozzle onto the top of a jar of white-powdered fungus immersed in a concoction of mineral oils. He leans forward into a fume hood and applies an even coating of fungal spores onto cut-up strips of disposable ...

From ELIE DOLGIN, The Scientist,  6 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Johns Hopkins,  Ford Motor Company

Next top model

A mouse lung riddled with tumors after inhaling Cre recombinase. David Dankort was 4 years into his postdoc at the University of California, San Francisco, without a single paper to show for his work since his PhD. His first two major projects had ...

From ELIE DOLGIN, The Scientist,  28 Sep 2009

The nanoimmunologist

Growing up, J. Christopher Love never imagined that he’d be exploring the intricacies of the immune system as a career. In high school, he developed theoretical designs for molecules that could act as electrical devices at the MITRE Corporation, a ...

From ELIE DOLGIN, The Scientist,  22 Sep 2009
Related Topics: Harvard Medical School,  Massachusetts Institute of Technology

C. elegans physical map, circa 1989

By the 1980s, Sydney Brenner’s “worm project” was in full swing. Brenner and his crack team of researchers at the Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB) in Cambridge, UK, had already constructed a detailed genetic map of the nematode Caenorhabditis ...

From ELIE DOLGIN, The Scientist,  17 Sep 2009
Related Topics: Sydney Brenner,  Washington University in St. Louis,  James D. Watson

When the Levy breaks

A.E. Edwards et al., “Revisiting Lévy flight search patterns of wandering albatrosses, bumblebees and deer,” Nature , 449:1044–48, 2007. (Cited in 53 papers) Andrew Edwards, with Fisheries and Oceans Canada, found that earlier reports had mistakenly ...

From ELIE DOLGIN, The Scientist,  17 Sep 2009

Epigenetic suicide note

Epigenetic patterns in this brain could reveal suicidal tendencies. Courtesy of the Douglas Mental Health University Institute. Photo by Raja Ouali, Bivouac Studio, 2008 Recently, Moshe Szyf, a McGill University epigeneticist, performed a series ...

From ELIE DOLGIN, The Scientist,  31 Aug 2009

Scoring on sabbaticals

Seven years after landing his first faculty job, and a year after securing tenure, Andrew Hendry earned his first year-long sabbatical, a precious respite from teaching and administrative duties that only comes around a few times in one’s career. Last ...

From ELIE DOLGIN, The Scientist,  12 Aug 2009
Related Topics: Simon Fraser,  Popular Science,  NPR

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