Category: Paper of the Day
Paper of the Day
Optimizing the sensory characteristics and acceptance of canned cat food: use of a human taste panel. Link more »
Phylogeny of tasty animals
Man I really love this chart. Should be expanded though! Tastes Like Chicken?, Joe Staton, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University. more »
by Charles Betz
05/06/09. 08:04:42 am. 21 words, 921 views. Categories: Paper of the Day , 10 comments »
05/06/09. 08:04:42 am. 21 words, 921 views. Categories: Paper of the Day , 10 comments »
Published
Well you may be interested that I just co-authored my first scientific publication. It's nothing like a first author, I know, still it is a decent journal (Human Molecular Genetics) and a nice reward for my internship in Harvard last year. A hypomorphi… more »
by Charles Betz
04/15/09. 02:56:12 pm. 63 words, 591 views. Categories: Labonews, Paper of the Day ,
04/15/09. 02:56:12 pm. 63 words, 591 views. Categories: Labonews, Paper of the Day ,
The REAL Nobel Prizes
So much to do, I almost forgot telling you about this years' Ig Nobel prizes, sponsored and organized by Improbable Research. Here are the winning publications: NUTRITION PRIZE: "The Role of Auditory Cues in Modulating the Perceived Crispness and Stalen… more »
Why no exercise may be the best one you'll get
Riding along the earlier placebo post, here's another interesting publication: Crum AJ Langer EJ. Mind-Set Matters: Exercise and the Placebo Effect. Psychological Science 18(2) 165-171, 2007. What the authors basically did was to divide two groups of c… more »
by Charles Betz
09/02/08. 10:13:16 am. 162 words, 577 views. Categories: Paper of the Day , 5 comments »
09/02/08. 10:13:16 am. 162 words, 577 views. Categories: Paper of the Day , 5 comments »
TEH STUPID BRAINZ
Wouldn't it be jolly good if we'd decide what we consume by irrelevant criteria such as quality? Well, the more expensive the wine, the better it tastes. Are we realy that easy to fool? more »
Unskilled and Unaware of It: How Difficulties in Recognizing One's Own Incompetence Lead to Inflated Self-Assessments
Worth a reading: Abstract: People tend to hold overly favorable views of their abilities in many social and intellectual domains. The authors suggest that this overestimation occurs, in part, because people who are unskilled in these domains suffer a d… more »
Crazy papers
Sometimes I wish I were in medicine. They can publish anything! VIAOtt et al. Intestinal obstruction after ingestion of a beer-filled condom at the Munich Octoberfest. The American journal of gastroenterology (2003) vol. 98 (2) pp. 512-3 more »
by Charles Betz
02/05/08. 08:06:57 pm. 33 words, 544 views. Categories: Paper of the Day , 4 comments »
02/05/08. 08:06:57 pm. 33 words, 544 views. Categories: Paper of the Day , 4 comments »
Research Blogging
Here's the link to a very promising project I've read about only now in The Questionable Authority Blog. I'm eager to participate myself! Quoting: Do you like to read about new developments in science and other fields? Are you tired of "science by… more »
by Charles Betz
02/04/08. 10:04:33 pm. 335 words, 833 views. Categories: Paper of the Day , 2 comments »
02/04/08. 10:04:33 pm. 335 words, 833 views. Categories: Paper of the Day , 2 comments »
Crazy Papers
Just for fun, if you like to read some scientific nonsense:Scott et al. Naming the Loch Ness monster. Nature (1975) No need to comment there, still amazing that it made a 3 page paper publication in Nature!!!Mullis et al. Cosmological Significance of Ti… more »
Funny Ads - Oh Elisa!
We all know that biologists can be very geeky sometimes, especially when it comes to advertisements in scientific journals... Well this one is no exception!
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TOR Signaling in Growth and Metabolism
- Stephan Wullschleger, Robbie Loewith, and Michael N. Hall, - DOI 10.1016/j.cell.2006.01.016 - Cell 124, February 10, 2006 - Elsevier Inc. -
TOR or target of rapamycin is a 280 kDa Ser/Thr kinase belonging to the phosphatidylinositol kinase-related… more »
Roles of AUF1 isoforms, HuR and BRF1 in ARE-dependent mRNA turnover studied by RNA interference
-Ines Raineri, Daniel Wegmueller, Brigitte Gross, Ulrich Certa and Christoph Moroni - Nucleic Acids Research, 2004, Vol. 32, No. 4 1279-1288 - DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkh282 -
In this paper, the authors investigated the effect on mRNA stability by targeting… more »
Molecular Context of the EGFR Mutations: Evidence for the Activation of mTOR/S6K Signaling
- Esther Conde, Barbara Angulo, Moying Tang, ManuelMorente, Juan Torres-Lanzas, Angel Lopez-Encuentra, Fernando Lopez-Rios, and Montserrat Sanchez-Cespedes - Clinical Cancer Research 2006;711 12(3) February 1, 2006 - www.aacrjournals.org -
A number o… more »
Functional cloning of BRF1, a regulator of ARE-dependent mRNA turnover
– Georg Stoecklin, Marco Colombi, Ines Raineri, Sabrina Leuenberger, Michel Mallaun, Martin Schmidlin, Brigitte Gross, Min Lu, Toshio Kitamura, Christoph Moroni – The EMBO Journal Vol.21 No.17 pp. 4709-4718, 2002 -
The ARE (AU-rich element) is a cis… more »