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medicine

Autophagy:
Why you should eat yourself

July 24, 2010

I’d like to say a few words about one of the hottest and, in my view, most important areas in biomedicine: autophagy, a process crucial to health, disease, and aging. Autophagy research is expanding rapidly.
In autophagy (“self eating”), cells engulf and digest their own macromolecules and organelles. Autophagy serves two functions: providing critical nutrients in [...]

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Data-mining the bioscience literature

June 24, 2010

Genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, and metabolomics now meet paperomics: Automated trawling, not of whole slices of nature, but of whole slices of the scientific literature — the idea is to look for indirect links among papers that may indicate undiscovered links in nature.
From the Computable Genomix website:
…Powered by patent pending next generation text mining technology, GeneIndexer [...]

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Needless Megadeaths:
A Suggestion for Science in the Public Interest

June 16, 2010

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Learning Bioinformatics

March 12, 2010

Bioinformatics is huge, growing, fast, and has a surprising range of applications to molecular systems engineering. Here’s a PLoS article: “A Quick Guide for Developing Effective Bioinformatics Programming Skills”. From the abstract:
Successful adoption of these principals will serve both beginner and experienced bioinformaticians alike in career development and pursuit of professional and scientific goals.

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Talk at 09 ISMICS

June 5, 2009

I was up in San Francisco this morning for the annual meeting of the International Society for Minimally Invasive Cardiothoracic Surgery (ISMICS). These are the innovative surgeons who’ve been developing instruments and procedures that greatly reduce the collateral damage of surgical interventions, accomplishing what must to be done with less damage to skin, muscle, fascia, [...]

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Early 21st Century Medicine

November 21, 2008

After the nurse punctured my right arm, the IV drip of a sedative and an opioid analgesic (fentanyl) was supposed to keep me hydrated while inducing “twilight anesthesia”, a painless, semi-conscious state accompanied by amnesia. However, I recall observing the first half or so of the procedure, commenting on the high quality of the doctor’s [...]

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