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Episode 10: Sticks and Cones May Break My Bones

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Get ready for super microscopes, tardigrade blood stabilization, broken stick modeling, an R version codenamed ‘Already Tomorrow’, a ‘pinecone’ made of Python, and a pitch-style competition for infectious disease funding. Science On.


References:

  • Parallelized computational 3D video microscopy of freely moving organisms at multiple gigapixels per second
  • Natural and engineered mediators of desiccation tolerance stabilize Human Blood Clotting Factor VIII in a dry state
  • Hyperactive nanobacteria with host-dependent traits pervade Omnitrophota
  • Electrochemical degradation of PFOA and its common alternatives: Assessment of key parameters, roles of active species, and transformation pathway
  • Mother-to-infant microbiota transmission and infant microbiota development across multiple body sites
  • Journal of Statistical Software Volume 106
  • R 4.3.0 scheduled for April 21
  • dummy coding in spss glm–more on fixed factors, covariates, and reference groups
  • Partial correlation: controlling for confounding variables
  • Pynecone
  • A suite of tools to scrape and parse search engine results
  • NIH: Molecular Transducers of Physical Activity Bioinformatics Center
  • NIH: Instrumentation Grant Program for Resource-Limited Institutions
  • NSF: Synthesis Center for Understanding Organismal Resilience
  • ACS: Postdoctoral Fellowships
  • HFSP: Cross-Disciplinary Fellowships
  • IDSA: IDea Incubator

    • R Packages:

    • crayons: Color Palettes from Crayon Boxes
    • baseq: Basic Sequence Processing Tool for Biological Data
    • reappraised: Statistical Tools for Assessing Publication Integrity of Groups of Trials
    • ridgregextra: Ridge Regression Parameter Estimation
      • ...more
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