Here is another tech tip to overcome a frequent task – resetting printers and mailers when moving a Macbook around the world: Location X is a perfect solution with a built in autolocate function (depending on airport network! which is superior to IP detection)

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Being tired from entering several books into an Endnote library, I found a better way – just enter “GKV” as the remote library where you can select ISBN search…

While some of my earlier co-workers continue to praise the achievements of GWAs, some other earlier co-authors now show that the common variants thrown on the current GWA chips are leading to false assocations (called politely “synthetic” associations)

We propose as an alternative explanation that variants much less common than the associated one may create “synthetic associations” by occurring, stochastically, more often in association with one of the alleles at the common site versus the other allele. Although synthetic associations are an obvious theoretical possibility, they have never been systematically explored as a possible explanation for GWAS findings. Here, we use simple computer simulations to show the conditions under which such synthetic associations will arise and how they may be recognized. We show that they are not only possible, but inevitable…

The proof comes with a sickle cell anemia study (Show me more…)

What happens when looking at that video?

The neuroanatomy view this week in Nature

we predict[...] a macroscopic signal visible to functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) in humans. We then looked for this signal as participants explored a virtual reality environment, mimicking the rats’ foraging task: fMRI activation and adaptation showing a speed-modulated six-fold rotational symmetry in running direction. The signal was found in a network of entorhinal/subicular, posterior and medial parietal, lateral temporal and medial prefrontal areas. (Show me more…)