Your Gut Bacteria Are What You Eat – ScienceNOW
“A large European-Asian consortium brought some order to the chaos when it reported in a Nature paper in April that humanity can be roughly divided into t...
Category: Strategy
PLoS Genetics: A Broad Brush, Global Overview of Bacterial Sexuality
“These results have several implications. Firstly, plasmids and ICEs share the same protein families, and should be considered as alternative vehicles for...
PLoS ONE: Predator Cat Odors Activate Sexual Arousal Pathways in Brains of Toxoplasma gondii Infected Rats
“Cat odors induce rapid, innate and stereotyped defensive behaviors in rats at first exposure, a presumed response to the evolutionary pressures of predat...
PLoS Biology: Endosymbiosis: Lessons in Conflict Resolution
“In sum, the past few years have witnessed a surge of new empirical and theoretical approaches to understand the dynamics of bacterial–insect relationship...
Complexification, complexity inflection points, and Russian nested dolls
Proteome-wide post-translational modification statistics: frequency analysis and curation of the swiss-prot database : Scientific Reports : Nature Publishing Gr...
A Bug in a Bug in a Bug – ScienceNOW
“But when Von Dohlen and her student Shawn Kohler examined the mealybugs’ so-called “symbiotic spheres,” long assumed to be host structu...
James King – speculative deisgner
Here’s another speaker for my proposed panel for SXSW [http://panelpicker.sxsw.com/ideas/view/10348] on DIYbio. James King is a speculative designer worki...
Cathal Garvey – indie biotech
As you might be aware, I proposed a panel for SXSW [http://panelpicker.sxsw.com/ideas/view/10348] on DIYbio. One person who I think epitomizes DIYbio is Cathal ...
PLoS Pathogens: Selection of Resistant Bacteria at Very Low Antibiotic Concentrations
“These results add another dimension to the evolution of resistance and suggest that the low antibiotic concentrations found in many natural environments ...
Brown calls change to brewery rules a ‘job-killer’ – Boston.com
“Senator Scott Brown yesterday condemned a rule change at the state’s Alcoholic Beverages Control Commission that beer makers say could harm 25 craft brew...