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Science Links for December 8, 2007

Dec 8, 2007 news links

  • One of the postdocs here in the Skinner lab, Dr. Ramji Bhandari, has started a blog related to his area of expertise, Sex Determination Research. Ramji is new to blogging and decided to get his feet wet with a number of relevent abstracts, which will be a nice resource for those interested in sex determination.
  • Cautious forays into open science continue. Dr. Rosie Redfield of the University of British Columbia is a vocal supporter, and recently explained her philosophy in blogging about her current experiments and encouraging her lab members to do the same.

    • Also, Pedro Beltrao is testing the use of Google Code as a management system for conducting an open science experiment involving domain family expansion.

  • The Pump Handle, a blog that provides editorials and commentary on emerging trends and issues in public health, has started a new feature, Journal Scan, that provides explanations of research papers in easily understandable language. Anyone with an interest in public health can break down a paper and send it in for publication.
  • Seattle’s Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center is home to Steve Henikoff, who is profiled in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Dr. Henikoff is a Howard Hughes investigator and a leader in epigenetics research. The profile exmaines his entire life, from growing up in Chicago to developing (with wife Jorja) the BLOSUM protein alignment scoring matrix, while in the process delving into some of the science that Henikoff has helped push forward over the course of his career.

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