I have long been thinking what attracts me so much to make photos (and have only rudimentary thoughts why doing research on lung disease). But finally I found a quote by Cartier-Bresson, the famous French photographer

“To photograph is to hold one’s breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. (Show me more…)

There seems to be more evidence for the fake food hypothesis that I raised here some years ago. It says in brief that our

food recognition process is largely fooled by pre-processed food that contains additives changing appearance, taste and smelling.

while an empirical proof is still missing. But wait there is a new study about functional ankyrin-B mutations(which are believed to be a food sensing molecule although such a link is not so strong. Anykyrin-B made by the ANK2 gene is described by Vann Bennett in Science Signalling 3/113 to be associated with type II diabetes. What’s about obesity?

badscience.net writes about at a formal review of a smoke associated effect that

found 43 [studies] in total, and overall, smoking significantly increases your risk of Alzheimers … 11 of the studies were written by people with affiliations to the tobacco industry. This wasn’t always declared, so to double check, the researchers searched on the University of California’s Legacy Tobacco Documents Library, a vast collection of scanned material which has been gathered over decades of legal action.

I didn’t know of this collection (Show me more…)

A new Science Perspective Paper writes about “reliable noise” which may not be the best description for a valid observation (Show me more…)

I find it handy to have a quick link in the appointments to the recent correspondence. Unfortunately there is no quick way to do that. (Show me more…)

A new feature article in Nature about sparse coding let me wonder if we could construct also some Waddington-like picture of the SNPxSNP landscape as well as a disease traits and apply such an algorithm to that picture. I did some research but didn’t find any example exploiting that idea; maybe it’s even more useful with the current shift to full genomes?