"We've got a big problem," he said, when he saw the trays of water and realised nothing had happened to them. "This is a completely rubbish experiment."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-19813295
A live experiement to see if boiling water freezes more quickly than cold water was described as a “shambles” by Newsnight presenter Jeremy Paxman, after neither froze at all.
"Past videos of the Primer on Medical and Population Genetics series are freely available for viewing by clicking one of the links below. The talks are geared toward a wide audience, including research technicians, graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and established investigators just entering the field"
2010-2011. 9/16/10, Introduction to complex trait genetics [ video ], David Altshuler, Director, Medical and Population Genetics Program, Broad Institute. 9/23/10, Genetics in Mendelian human disease …
“It makes you wonder if they became isolated from one another for cultural reasons, or if there was some sort of geographical isolation that led to the differentiation,” says Sarah Tishkoff, a human-origins geneticist at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.
Originally shared by +Nature News & Comment
Two studies exploring the genetics of hunter-gatherers and pastoralists in sub-Saharan Africa, where humans are thought to have originated, reveal that even though the click-language peoples of southern Africa live in close proximity, they belong to two distinct genetic clusters.
Geographically close human populations in southern Africa have been genetically isolated for thousands of years.
"I argue here that gene patents, and patented genetic tests based
on them, are a very bad idea. First, i discuss whether genes can
reasonably be the subject of patents in the first place; i maintain that
the answer is no. second, i explain how gene patents interfere with
scientific progress, slowing down the development of new cures and
treatments for genetic diseases."
Originally shared by +Gregory Jordan
From back in June: Steven Salzberg's nicely-written refutation of gene patents.
http://genomics.jhu.edu/papers/Perils-of-gene-patents-reprint-CPT2012.pdf
http://genomics.jhu.edu/papers/Perils-of-gene-patents-reprint-CPT2012.pdf
