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  USA Ranks #41 in Infant Mortality! Tied with Qatar!
  That baby ain't dead! It's a WHO conspiracy!
  by parkypundit / on Aug 31, 2011

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “plos”

 

• Now we know why old scizophrenia medicine works on antibiotics-resistant bacteria

  
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  The post Now we know why old scizophrenia medicine works on antibiotics-resistant bacteria appeared first on Innovation Toronto. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
  2 days ago

• Is there evidence that mHealth is an effective and suitable health delivery intervention in the developing world?

  
  African Press International (API) — Authority: 154
  NAIROBI,  - We’ve read the stories: From bedridden patients sending text messages to their health workers, to young people receiving HIV prevention messages via SMS, the mobile phone seems to have morphed from communications device to essential life-saver. But is the evidence there yet that mHealth is an effective ...
  1 week ago

• Meditation Produces Opposite Effect of ‘Fight or Flight’

  
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  By Traci Pedersen for PsychCentral A new study reveals that practitioners of meditation experience changes in gene expression that are the exact opposite of what occurs during the “flight or fight” stress response. Specifically, genes associated with energy metabolism, mitochondrial function, insulin secretion, ...
  2 weeks ago

• Do Self-Affirmations Work? A Revisit

  
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  Self-affirmations were first popularized by French psychologist Emile Coué back in the 1920s and are still a staple of self help gurus and psychologists and personal coaches. But do they work? read more
  2 weeks ago

• 4 year scientific investigation indicates navy’s sonar devices caused 2008 mass dolphin stranding and deaths

  
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  The scientific journal PLOS ONE has published the results of four years of research into the UK’s largest ever mass stranding event of marine mammals [MSE] – on 9th June 2008. This took place in Falmouth Bay in Cornwall, with 26 dolphins dying and around the same number managed back to sea. The researchers were ...
  2 weeks ago

• Do you know an example of open access research helping the public good? Nominate the team for a $30k ASAP award!

  
  Mendeley Blog — Authority: 118
  The Public Library of Science, the Wellcome Trust, and Google recently announced the Accelerating Science Award Program . If you know someone who has applied or reused scientific research in an innovative way to advance science, medicine, or technology, you can nominate them for an ASAP award. The goal of ASAP is ...
  2 weeks ago

• Air Quality Awareness Week

  
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  It’s hard to believe that the first federal air pollution legislation was the Air Pollution Act of 1955 . Fifty-eight years later, the United States—and the world—are still struggling to come to terms with the importance of preserving the quality of the air we breathe. Air Quality Awareness Week is on the ...
  2 weeks ago

• 27 Genes Make Rubella Vaccine Less Effective

  
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  Using advanced genetic sequencing technology and analysis, Mayo Clinic vaccine researchers have identified 27 genes that respond in very different ways to the standard rubella vaccine , making the vaccine  less effective for a portion of the population. Mayo Clinic vaccinologist Gregory Poland, M.D. , ...
  2 weeks ago

• Bad Ome-like word of the week: symbiome

  
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  Well I got pointed to this paper:  Transgenerational Transmission of the Glossina pallidipes Hytrosavirus Depends on the Presence of a Functional Symbiome And as many might guess - the word "symbiome" did not sit well with me.  Alas, they dont define it in the paper.  So I cant really quibble with their ...
  3 weeks ago

• If you are into microbial diversity and use R this may be worth checking out: phyloseq

  
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  Just got pointed (by the lead author) to this new paper:  PLOS ONE: phyloseq: An R Package for Reproducible Interactive Analysis and Graphics of Microbiome Census Data Abstract: Background The analysis of microbial communities through DNA sequencing brings many challenges: the integration of different types of ...
  3 weeks ago

• Facebook likes could track, map obesity

  
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  Facebook interests could help predict and track obesity, according to a study by researchers at Childrens Hospital Boston, in which geotagged Facebook user data was compared with data from national surveys. read more
  3 weeks ago

• A Warning for Skin Cancer Survivors

  
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  Beat it once? You may not be in the clear... Continue reading
  3 weeks ago

• An Introduction to Social Media for Scientists, now in PLoS Biology

  
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  Science is defined by expertise. We researchers are constantly trying to expand our own knowledge, or collaborate with those who can contribute the necessary skills. Unfortunately, developing “internet skills” usually isn’t top priority for scientists – despite the fact that we now live and work in a ...
  4 weeks ago

• Institutional Repository Study Is Recast in UK Political Light

  
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  How a publisher study of institutional repositories is used against those who created it. Continue reading »
  4 weeks ago

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