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	<title>Science Surf &#187; Children + Future</title>
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		<title>Different mindsets</title>
		<link>http://www.wjst.de/blog/2010/08/19/different-mindsets/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Aug 2010 08:15:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthias Wjst</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Children + Future]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fun + nothing else]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[stay alive]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I confess, yea, there is a misunderstanding (sometimes) between generations. A new mindset list like the Beloit College List is therefore very handy as it explains Most students entering college for the first time this fall [...] were born in 1992. 2. Email is just too slow, and they seldom if ever use snail mail. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Genes on the fast lane</title>
		<link>http://www.wjst.de/blog/2010/06/12/genes-on-the-fast-lane/</link>
		<comments>http://www.wjst.de/blog/2010/06/12/genes-on-the-fast-lane/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jun 2010 05:23:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthias Wjst</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Asthma + Allergy]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[heterozygote advantage]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I need to refer here to a post 3 years ago or to the medical literature that genes frequencies changed rapidly between generations. Although that is even the basis of a submitted Great Challenge Application at the Gates Foundation any empirical proof is scarce so far. Or I have to say, until this week, when [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stand by me</title>
		<link>http://www.wjst.de/blog/2010/06/02/stand-by-me/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jun 2010 13:48:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthias Wjst</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Children + Future]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fun + nothing else]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ben E. King]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Playing For Change: Song Around the World &#8220;Stand By Me&#8221; from Playing For Change]]></description>
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		<title>Clearly biased: Maternal recall of asthma in the family</title>
		<link>http://www.wjst.de/blog/2010/04/25/clearly-biased-maternal-recall-of-asthma-in-the-family/</link>
		<comments>http://www.wjst.de/blog/2010/04/25/clearly-biased-maternal-recall-of-asthma-in-the-family/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Apr 2010 16:22:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthias Wjst</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Asthma + Allergy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Children + Future]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bias]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I have heard it many times on congresses and there seems now even a meta-analysis of a possible preferential maternal transmission of asthma to children. And of course, there are important biological question behind (imprinting? maternal antibody transfer?) but unfortunately this is nothing else than a spurious effect. The author&#8217;s view is well taken that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The 294 records the cigarette industry kept about me</title>
		<link>http://www.wjst.de/blog/2010/03/09/the-294-records-the-cigarette-industry-kept-about-me/</link>
		<comments>http://www.wjst.de/blog/2010/03/09/the-294-records-the-cigarette-industry-kept-about-me/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:48:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthias Wjst</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Children + Future]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ethics + Law]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[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 &#8230; 11 of the studies were written by people with affiliations to the tobacco industry. This wasnâ€™t always declared, so to double check, the researchers searched on the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How we inherit acquired traits &#8211; all about non random mutations in the human genome</title>
		<link>http://www.wjst.de/blog/2009/12/29/how-we-inherit-acquired-traits-all-about-non-random-mutations-in-the-human-genome/</link>
		<comments>http://www.wjst.de/blog/2009/12/29/how-we-inherit-acquired-traits-all-about-non-random-mutations-in-the-human-genome/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Dec 2009 11:28:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthias Wjst</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Children + Future]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Genetics + Biology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[epigenetics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mutation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[next generation sequencing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This is just a material collection for a forthcoming review. I am collecting links to studies showing an increased mutation rate in CpG islands that may possibly fix gene activation status. PNAS 1997 In the P53 tumor suppressor gene, a remarkably large number of somatic mutations are found at methylated CpG dinucleotides. Nature 2001 Indirect [...]]]></description>
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		<title>100 cases of inherited epigenetic inheritance</title>
		<link>http://www.wjst.de/blog/2009/12/16/100-cases-of-inherited-epigenetic-inheritance/</link>
		<comments>http://www.wjst.de/blog/2009/12/16/100-cases-of-inherited-epigenetic-inheritance/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 14:01:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthias Wjst</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Children + Future]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Genetics + Biology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[epigenetics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I was searching quite long for a review on that &#8211; but only to discover in the print version of a QRB article a reference to an online table. In homo sapiens, the author reports an increased cardiovascular mortality slash diabetes susceptibility (INS-IGF2-H19) through male germline and Angelman/Prader/Willi syndrome (from paternal grandmother). So there are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mere exposure effect, peppermints and your next experiment</title>
		<link>http://www.wjst.de/blog/2009/07/28/mere-exposure-effect-peppermints-and-your-next-experiments/</link>
		<comments>http://www.wjst.de/blog/2009/07/28/mere-exposure-effect-peppermints-and-your-next-experiments/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 06:41:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthias Wjst</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Children + Future]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[History + Insights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Harnack Principle]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Only recently I learned about the &#8220;mere exposure&#8221; effect (author&#8217;s website) / paper) Participants named landmarks shown on photographs. In two experimental conditions, the photographs also unobtrusively showed posters depicting the logo of either a lemon candy or a peppermint candy; in a control condition, no posters were shown. Later participants could choose between the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>XDR TB</title>
		<link>http://www.wjst.de/blog/2009/03/31/xdr-tb/</link>
		<comments>http://www.wjst.de/blog/2009/03/31/xdr-tb/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2009 19:53:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthias Wjst</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Children + Future]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Population + Epidemiology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[drug]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[resistant]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tuberculosis]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
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		<title>Informed Consent 2.0</title>
		<link>http://www.wjst.de/blog/2008/09/15/informed-consent-20/</link>
		<comments>http://www.wjst.de/blog/2008/09/15/informed-consent-20/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Sep 2008 16:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthias Wjst</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Children + Future]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ethics + Law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Genetics + Biology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Philosophy of Science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Population + Epidemiology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[informed consent]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[partnership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[revision]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Veatch]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[PLoS medicine publishes today a piece that we wrote already last summer. As we have removed the narrative abstract (PLoS uses keypoints instead of an abstract) here is it &#8211; pleading for an update of traditional informed consent. Informed consent (IC) is a basic requirement for biomedical research. It in- cludes the understanding of risks [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A global disease map</title>
		<link>http://www.wjst.de/blog/2008/07/11/a-global-disease-map/</link>
		<comments>http://www.wjst.de/blog/2008/07/11/a-global-disease-map/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2008 12:57:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthias Wjst</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Children + Future]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Computer + Software]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Photography + Travel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[communicable]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[disease]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[medicine]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[PLoS medicine has a report about &#8220;Surveillance Sans FrontiÃ¨res: Internet-Based Emerging Infectious Disease Intelligence and the HealthMap Project&#8221; that goes far beyond old-fashioned disease reporting. They write These Web-based data sources not only facilitate early outbreak detection, but also support increasing public awareness of disease outbreaks prior to their formal recognition. Through low-cost and real-time [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Baut Eure StÃ¤dte an den Vesuv</title>
		<link>http://www.wjst.de/blog/2007/12/31/baut-eure-stadte-an-den-vesuv/</link>
		<comments>http://www.wjst.de/blog/2007/12/31/baut-eure-stadte-an-den-vesuv/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Dec 2007 15:34:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthias Wjst</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Fun + nothing else]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[favorite_quotes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[friedrich_nietzsche]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[If computers don&#8217;t lie, here are some stats for 2007: I read 1,802 papers (+10% than in 2006), sent 2,034 emails in response to 5,661 incoming messages (-15%), (co-)published 12 papers (+20%) and gave 7 lectures (+0%). Does this make me happy? Yes, and no, even when reading now a book on happiness. The number [...]]]></description>
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