Author: Sander Timmer

PhD student in computational genetics at Cambridge University and EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute
Mummies found in +South Uist in Scotland are actually a composition of several different…

Mummies found in +South Uist in Scotland are actually a composition of several different…

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Mummies found in +South Uist in Scotland are actually a composition of several different non related individuals but why this is this is still a mystery…. 

'Brown sampled DNA from the female skeleton's jawbone, skull, arm, and leg. The results show that bones came from different people, none of whom even shared the same mother, he said.'

'A cynical theory, study author Brown said, assumes that the Bronze Age people of Cladh Hallan were just eminently practical: "Maybe the head dropped off and they got another head to stick on."'

Read more at +National Geographic http://goo.gl/yVarp


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Super album with amazing pictures to look at during the last half hour of #sciencesunday…

Super album with amazing pictures to look at during the last half hour of #sciencesunday…

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In album Abstracts and Patterns (Nature) (51 photos)

Super album with amazing pictures to look at during the last half hour of #sciencesunday by +Dan Bowden

Reshared post from +Dan Bowden

Since I've gained so many new followers over the last few weeks I thought I'd reshare some of my albums with them!

This is my Abstracts and Patterns (Nature) album.  It's a work in progress!

And since it's #ScienceSunday I may as well tag +Rajini Rao and +Robby Bowles as well!

Enjoy


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Comparing chromatin signatures (DNaseI hypersensitive) and transcript abundances (DGE sequencing) for 3 humans, 3 chimpanzees and 3 macaques shows evidence of gain and loss of regulatory elements that correlate with species-specific phenotypic changes

Comparing chromatin signatures (DNaseI hypersensitive) and transcript abundances (DGE sequencing) for 3 humans, 3 chimpanzees and 3 macaques shows evidence of gain and loss of regulatory elements that correlate with species-specific phenotypic changes

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Comparing chromatin signatures (DNaseI hypersensitive) and transcript abundances (DGE sequencing) for 3 humans, 3 chimpanzees and 3 macaques shows evidence of gain and loss of regulatory elements that correlate with species-specific phenotypic changes. Also, they show that SNPs inside regulatory elements might be responsible for the variation in specie specific functions.

PLoS Genetics: Extensive Evolutionary Changes in Regulatory Element Activity during Human Origins Are Associated with Altered Gene Expression and Positive Selection
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Comparing chromatin signatures (DNaseI hypersensitive) and transcript abundances…

Comparing chromatin signatures (DNaseI hypersensitive) and transcript abundances…

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Comparing chromatin signatures (DNaseI hypersensitive) and transcript abundances (DGE sequencing) for 3 humans, 3 chimpanzees and 3 macaques shows evidence of gain and loss of regulatory elements that correlate with species-specific phenotypic changes. Also, they show that SNPs inside regulatory elements might be responsible for the variation in specie specific functions. 

PLoS Genetics: Extensive Evolutionary Changes in Regulatory Element Activity during Human Origins Are Associated with Altered Gene Expression and Positive Selection
PLoS Genetics is an open-access


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I do absolutely love these kind of data visualisation based on current live events…

I do absolutely love these kind of data visualisation based on current live events…

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I do absolutely love these kind of data visualisation based on current live events (in this case European Championships in Poland/Ukraine) and the effect this has on online social activity. 

Great to see how things response and evolve over the tournament.
 
For more figures and data visit the following Twitter data page: http://goo.gl/NCMIZ

Thnx +Michele Mattioni for posting this! 

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