TB vaccine takes a tumble
A leading candidate for a sorely needed new vaccine against tuberculosis (TB) has failed to protect children against the disease in a major clinical trial.
Published today in The Lancet, the results of the trial of the MVA85A vaccine show that it seems to have “no significant efficacy” against either TB or infection with Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
The results are a major blow to the TB research community, as MVA85A had seemed highly promising as…
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“With this sort of appropriate task structure, the procrastinator becomes a useful citizen. Indeed, the procrastinator can even acquire, as I have, a reputation for getting a lot done.”
Wise words for a guy that took 17 years writing a book with only 92 pages lol
Psychologists suggest that procrastination, if structured, can have some benefits, by getting you to complete some tasks, even if only to avoid the ones you’re meant to be doing.
Winter has finally arrived in western Europe!!
The Netherlands covered in snow
Between five and 10 centimetres of snow have fallen in southern parts of the country, with up to five cm in central areas. But according to one report, up to 19 cm may have fallen in The Hague, making it…
Pretty plots for genome wide data!
Originally shared by +Michele Mattioni
a nice idea about how to visualize complex and busy network: http://www.hiveplot.net/
I like it a lot. There is also a D3js implementation here: http://bost.ocks.org/mike/hive/
the hive plot is a perceptually uniform and scalable linear layout visualization for network visual analytics. UNDERSTANDING NETWORK STRUCTURE WITH HIVE PLOTS. (A) Normalized (top) and absolute (botto…
