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Can US Cities, States Reduce Carbon Emissions without Feds? Coping with Trump and Climate Change
Is the government telling women not to drink? How many microbes in the human body?
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inThe cancer moonshot and other future science fantasies
Again, water on Mars. Also abortion, Planned Parenthood, fetal tissue research
WATERY MARS AGAIN Emily Lakdawalla thinks everybody should calm down about NASA’s much-trumpeted latest discovery of liquid water on Mars. The discovery, which is probably not flowing water but rather something more like damp sand, doesn’t, she argues at the … Continue reading
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inSmall Talk: When Bacterial Chatter Gets Invasive
Sticks and stones may break our bones but microbes’ “words” may hurt us. Breast cancer is a threat to men and women worldwide. Like all cancers, the known causes are attributed to genetics and carcinogens, but recently, scientists have begun … Continue reading
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inMaking Medicines from Soil: Going Behind the Scenes of a Citizen Science Project
Taking you behind the scenes and into the laboratory of the Citizen Science Soil Collection Program This is a guest post by Dr Robert H. Cichewicz a professor at the University of Oklahoma and leader of the Citizen Science Soil Collection Program. … Continue reading
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inMoratorium on virus research, epigenetics and fear, open access to journals
A moratorium shuts down research on flu, MERS, and SARS viruses The debate began quickly over the moratorium that the White House has declared on certain sorts of virus research, the sort where researchers are deliberately trying to make … Continue reading
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inAll Nobel Prizes in 2014 Will be Microbially Themed: The Microbes Guarantee It
Given that, here are my predictions for the All-Microbial Nobel Prizes.
Medicine:
The Human Microbiome and Methods for Studying Microbial Communities. Should go to Norm Pace and some other people. Possibly Jeff Gordon. Possibly Jo Handelsman. Possibly others. Depends on how much the microbes in the committees emphasize themselves versus all microbes.
Physics:
Vera Rubin for her work on "Dark Matter" since we all know that the key dark matter in the universe is "microbial dark matter".
Chemistry:
Discovery and characterizing of the mechanisms of CRISPRs. No clue who will get this but it likely could include Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier and others.
Peace:
Bill and Melinda Gates and their foundation for their work on global health, especially on protecting from infectious diseases.
Literature: Ursula K. Le Guin in particular for her Wrinkle in Time series and its emphasis is on mitochondria.
Economics:
Well, since microcredit has already won an Economics prize, I am not sure how this will play out but certainly it will involve some type of microeconomics. Definitely NOT macroecnomics. I think the most likely winner here is Esther Duflo because of her work on both microeconomic topics and microcredit.
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inVery old new species, hospice v. hospital, & once more: how many microbes in the human body?
New animal, perhaps from before the Cambrian Explosion They look sort of like mushrooms, but they are animals. All hail discovery of not just a new species, but possibly a new phylum. Possibly even an animal remnant, thought to be … Continue reading
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inProstate cancer screening dispute, microbiome hype
Once more, screening for prostate cancer
It’s pretty much conventional wisdom among the experts that routine prostate cancer screening for the prostate-specific antigen can cause more harm than good. The recent results of the European study of routine PSA screening …
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