Bio News of the Week

[tabinks]

Please add a link to the comments for any interesting biology related news you find interesting. It does not need to be from a scientific journal.

[tabinks]

[sdkramer10]

Researchers are working on a brain prosthetic that could be implanted in to your brain and improve memory.

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/300425.php

[jvmakin]

In which doctors attempt to categorize the weird, wonderful, and bizarre ways that the human body can go wrong using an absurdly complicated code:

http://www.npr.org/2015/09/29/444398839/doctors-to-get-70-000-new-medical-codes

I wonder if they wrote a python dictionary.

[bjmc]

Researchers have discovered another form of the CRISPR technique, which may prove to be even more useful, and less encumbered by patent restrictions: http://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/21668031-scientists-have-found-yet-another-way-edit-genomes-suggesting-such-technology-will

[ghost]

NIH & co. plan to collect ~1mil human genomes with matching diet/exercise/etc. data to characterize the genetic basis of "human phenotypes" for disease & behaviours. Statistician: "This might get noisy"

http://www.nature.com/nmeth/journal/v12/n8/full/nmeth.3487.html

[bd4]

Another article about Crispr/Cas9. This focuses on the patent / prize controversy and the nature of how science develops: http://www.wired.com/2015/10/battle-genome-editing-gets-science-wrong/

RadioLab, which does great science podcasts for a general audience, also covered crispr. They also talk about possible implications of a future with very precise genetic engineering tools: http://www.radiolab.org/story/antibodies-part-1-crispr/

[jvmakin]

Now that we have learned how biology is SUPPOSED to be done...

https://storify.com/BeckiePort/overlyhonestmethods http://www.buzzfeed.com/kmallikarjuna/how-to-science-as-told-by-17-overly-honest-scientists#.wpJbe3PeP

Also, screw reviewer #3: http://shitmyreviewerssay.tumblr.com/

[tabinks]

Sad and hilarious all at the same time.