Journal Refresh #3 : Decrypting, Breast Cancer and the Biocompass

I haven't written much for this blog because of my busy schedule so I thought I might as well fill you in with what articles I've been reading lately. I won't write this post in a bibliography style as I did with my other posts.

• Decrypting a brain enigma, written by Kamran Khodakhan based on the letter called Encoding of action by the Purkinje cells by David J. Hertzfeld et al. in Nature Vol 526, Issue No 7573 - pages 326 and 439,respectively.

  These were very interesting to read- I read the "introduction" by Khodakhan first and thus was able to get a better understanding of what the whole letter was about before actually reading it.                

 He compares the computational units of the brain to the ones of

Journal Refresh #2

I posted something like this early in July, a list of articles I had read up to that point and thought were interesting. And this is the second post in the series.

• Ledford  H.,(2015): CRISPR, the disruptor,  Nature 522, 20–24

• Reardon S.,(2015): DNA editing in mouse embryos prevents disease, in Nature, News

• Reardon S.,(2015): Ethics of embryo editing paper divides scientists, in Nature

• Laird D.W.,Lampe D.P., Johnson G.R.,(2015): Defects in structures that connect cells underlie many diseases, Scientific American 312, no.5

• Kwon D., (2015): What are you doing with my DNA?, Scientific American online

• Courage H. K.(2015): Octopus Genome Reveals Secrets to Complex Intelligence, Scientific American online, also read about it in Nature 

                                    Cristina

Journal Refresh

I read some awesome articles in the past few months that I think are worth mentioning in a post. This is also a good way for me to keep track of pieces of writing that I really enjoyed reading and I thought I might as well share them with you even if they're going to make a small post.

-In no particular order-

• Deng B.,(2015): The robot's dilemma, Nature 523, No.7558, 24-26       

                                           

• Hilton D.,(2015):Practical policies can combat gender inequality, Nature 523, No.7558,  7   

• Scientific American Board of Editors: A last right for dying patients, Scientific American       312 ,No.6, 7    

                                                                                                                                  

• Gould J.,(2015):Genie in a vector, Nature 515, No. 7528 Suppl.,6-7 (the supplement is Nature Outlook Haemophilia)                                                                                                                     

• Stix G.,Lifting the curse of Alzheimer's, Scientific American 312, No.5 , 

These articles are really interesting ranging from artificial intelligence and gender equality in science to research into treatments for haemophilia and hereditary Alzheimer's. If you do read them do tell me which one you liked the most and why.

                                Cristina