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Organisms on the Extreme Edge (Season 3: Episode 44)

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Get ready for pre-metazoan stem-cell transcription factors, Precambrian ecdyozoans, hyperarid microbes, a native mobile app for R, and a grant to study dirty mouse models. Science On.


References:

  • The emergence of Sox and POU transcription factors predates the origins of animal stem cells
  • An Ediacaran bilaterian with an ecdysozoan affinity from South Australia
  • Inside the Atacama Desert: uncovering the living microbiome of an extreme environment
  • Regression Models: How do you know you need a polynomial term?
  • You’ve Been Waiting for Native Mobile Apps with R? The Wait Is Over.
  • Bioconductor 3.20 Released
  • NIAID: Leveraging Microbial Exposure for Improving Mouse Models of Human Immunity
  • NICHD: Small Research Grant Program


    • R Packages:

    • cellularautomata: Cellular Automata
    • sampledatasets: A Collection of Sample Datasets
    • RegrCoeffsExplorer: Efficient Visualization of Regression Coefficients for lm(), glm(), and glmnet() Objects
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      Science Research WeeklyBy Mark R Williamson