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Optimizing the sensory characteristics and acceptance of canned cat food: use of a human taste panel. Link more »

Man I really love this chart. Should be expanded though! Tastes Like Chicken?, Joe Staton, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University. more »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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!     more »

- 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 »

-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 »

- 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 »

– 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 »