The Google search terms 'diabetes' and 'recipe' have contrasting patterns repeated each year over the festive period covering
The Google search terms 'diabetes' and 'recipe' have contrasting patterns repeated each year over the festive period covering November to January. Could this be evidence of human behaviour from big data? I'm on a Big Data MOOC #FLbigdata and was introduced to this tool on Google. I've shown in the...
Source: google.com
Plastic-eating bacteria set to revolutionize waste disposal | ExtremeTech: Genetically engineering a bacterium that eats
Plastic-eating bacteria set to revolutionize waste disposal | ExtremeTech: Genetically engineering a bacterium that eats plastic could fix the world's spiraling problem of waste disposal.
Source: extremetech.com
Brazil’s science squeeze | Chemistry World
Brazil’s science squeeze | Chemistry World
Source: rsc.org
Medical Education Theme Issue 2016: Call for Papers: Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.
Medical Education Theme Issue 2016: Call for Papers: Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition. Jacques Barzun The classic tripartite definition of the roles of a physician includes teaching, research, and patient care. While it is debatable whether the physicians in recent...
Source: jamanetwork.com
Junk food ads face online ban in UK - BBC News: Advertising junk food could soon be banned from children's content online,
Junk food ads face online ban in UK - BBC News: Advertising junk food could soon be banned from children's content online, according to the UK's advertising watchdog.
Source: bbc.co.uk
A Blog Is Born: The Human OS: Spectrum's new biomedical engineering blog will chronicle bold attempts to understand and
A Blog Is Born: The Human OS: Spectrum's new biomedical engineering blog will chronicle bold attempts to understand and debug the human body
Source: ieee.org
The Future of Diabetes Prevention: A Call for Papers: PLOS Medicine editors and guest editors announce a call for papers
The Future of Diabetes Prevention: A Call for Papers: PLOS Medicine editors and guest editors announce a call for papers for submissions for a special issue on diabetes prevention. The PLOS Medicine Editors. PLOS Med.
Source: plos.org
Expedition Bjurälven: On the Jämtland mountains, a group of spelunkers and cave divers are exploring what proved to be
Expedition Bjurälven: On the Jämtland mountains, a group of spelunkers and cave divers are exploring what proved to be Sweden’s longest underwater cave.
Source: expeditionbjuralven.se
Hara hachi bun me - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hara hachi bun me - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Source: wikipedia.org
Seeing takeaway food makes you eat more, say researchers in Fenland study. "Government strategies to promote healthier
Seeing takeaway food makes you eat more, say researchers in Fenland study. "Government strategies to promote healthier diets through planning restrictions for takeaway food could be most effective if focused around the workplace." Associations between exposure to takeaway food outlets, takeaway food...
Source: bmj.com
Portion distortion report (2013) from the British Heart Foundation
Portion distortion report (2013) from the British Heart Foundation
Source: bhf.org.uk
Not natural, not safe: Grapefruit Seed Extract. Science based medicine debunking the latest 'natural' wonder.
Not natural, not safe: Grapefruit Seed Extract. Science based medicine debunking the latest 'natural' wonder.
Source: sciencebasedmedicine.org
Vietnam twins found to have different fathers in rare case - BBC News: A pair of Vietnamese twins have been found to have
Vietnam twins found to have different fathers in rare case - BBC News: A pair of Vietnamese twins have been found to have different fathers, in an extremely rare case.
Source: bbc.co.uk
Estimated Effects of Different Alcohol Taxation and Price Policies on Health Inequalities: A Mathematical Modelling Study:
Estimated Effects of Different Alcohol Taxation and Price Policies on Health Inequalities: A Mathematical Modelling Study: In this mathematical modelling study, Petra Meier and colleagues estimate the impact of different alcohol taxation and pricing structures on consumption, spending, and health inequalities....
Source: plos.org
Top strategic predictions for 2016 and beyond: the future is a digital thing. The one that caught my attention was: "By
Top strategic predictions for 2016 and beyond: the future is a digital thing. The one that caught my attention was: "By 2018, 20% of all business content will be authored by machines.
... Technologies with the ability to proactively assemble and deliver information through automated composition...
Source: gartner.com
Junk DNA - a thorough but accessible account of modern genetics covering discoveries since mapping the human genome and
Junk DNA - a thorough but accessible account of modern genetics covering discoveries since mapping the human genome and epigenetics. Genomic imprinting, non-coding RNA, telomeres and ageing, etc. Everything discovered (or I forgot about) since I left medical school basically. Everything was explained...
Source: amazon.co.uk
Wellcome Image Awards 2016 Winners Announced |: Pathways of nerve fibres in the brain of a young healthy adult (viewed from
Wellcome Image Awards 2016 Winners Announced |: Pathways of nerve fibres in the brain of a young healthy adult (viewed from behind). Different parts of the brain communicate with each other through these
Source: medgadget.com
Now you're talking: human-like robot may one day care for dementia patients: With her brown hair, soft skin and expressive
Now you're talking: human-like robot may one day care for dementia patients: With her brown hair, soft skin and expressive face, Nadine is a new brand of human-like robot that could one day, scientists hope, be used as a personal assistant or care provider for the elderly.
Source: reuters.com
First drug to reverse Huntington's disease begins human trials : The new drug, called IONIS-HTTRx, silences the gene known
First drug to reverse Huntington's disease begins human trials : The new drug, called IONIS-HTTRx, silences the gene known to be responsible for the production of a protein which causes Huntington’s
Source: telegraph.co.uk
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