Science Research Weekly

Episode 25: Top Transposon, Maverick

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Get ready for metallic 3D prints, Cambrian predators that skipped appendage-day at the gym, the mechanisms of chemical gardens, the mysteries of virus-like transposon ‘Mavericks’, coding cheat sheets, and a rare disease grant. Science On.


References:

  • Remote detection of a lunar granitic batholith at Compton–Belkovich
  • Metallic gels for conductive 3D and 4D printing
  • Raptorial appendages of the Cambrian apex predator Anomalocaris canadensis are built for soft prey and speed
  • Pattern selection by material aging: Modeling chemical gardens in two and three dimensions
  • Virus-like transposons cross the species barrier and drive the evolution of genetic incompatibilities
  • An Easy Way to Customize Your Shiny App Theme
  • CheatSheet for coding in R, Python and Julia
  • GitHub: Tkinter-Designer
  • NIH: Preclinical Proof of Concept Studies for Rare Diseases
  • NIH: Cellular and Molecular Biology of Complex Brain Disorders (R01)
  • NIH: Cellular and Molecular Biology of Complex Brain Disorders (R21)
  • Jonathan F. Reichert Foundation: ALPhA Immersions Support
  • AABB Foundation: Early-Career Scientific Research Grants Program

    • R Packages:

    • esem: Exploratory Structural Equation Modeling ESEM
    • protHMM: Protein Feature Extraction from Profile Hidden Markov Models
    • ZooID: Load, Segment and Classify Zooplankton Images
      • ...more
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      Science Research WeeklyBy Mark R Williamson