It seems that Google has several interesting books that may be downloaded if you are using a proxy located somewhere in the U.S. A. It is quite interesting to see that there are many more books out there than I thought before:
Most interesting is certainly the 1880 2nd edition of Blackley’s “Hay fever” Continue reading Historical research on hayfever
moblog – I have now spent another day at the Berlin Document Center browsing through hundreds of RKI pages – manuscripts, correspondence, bills and personal files. My goal was to find out why the allergy epidemic did not already start off 1935 in Germany when vitamin D synthesis was already possible on a large scale.
Indeed, I found evidence that at least 3 companies radiated at that time yeast derived ergosterin by UV quartz lamps – I.G. Farben, Nordmark-Werke and Deutsche Vitamin Gesellschaft. The number of companies in this field Continue reading Why the allergy epidemic did not already start 1935 in Germany
Thousands and millions of talks start with the “first slide please” although there is no “slide” at all. This post, however, is more about my problems to manage the 300 slide shows here while making a new one. I found some nice software, that can re-index my old PP slides, and let me drag and drop to a new slide show. Costs for Slide Executive are ~79€. Is there any alternative? Continue reading The first slide please
A new nature medicine review has listed clinical trials targeting toll-like receptors. These including 3 preclinical studies using cpG-ODNs against TLR9 by Dynavax Astra-Zeneca, Coley / Sanofi-Aventis and Idera / Novartis. Lets wait and see…
Slowly but surely, the hygiene hypothesis is going to be more and more perforated. A new NEJM paper finds Continue reading One small step for man
Here are my gratulations to the current IG Nobel Prize Winners – see also Science magazine. Is there anything else that I may have missed? Oh yes, the official prizes… As a new service you can even ask them questions.
Transcription factor Pax5 is a key regulator for the B cell lineage (it may even be reponsible for redifferentiation from B to T cells according to new research from the Busslinger lab). As human CD23a, the low affinity IgE receptor, has a functional Pax-5-binding site, there could be a relationship to allergy inheritance. So far I have only looked into Pax-8 while Pax-5 might be even more important.
Yahoo News writes “Doubts cast on hygiene hypothesis“. As far as I know YN highlights the first experimental study of the hygiene hypothesis. Although the authors could achieve a reduction of respiratory infections by controlled randomized hygiene intervention, there was no effect on later asthma or allergy.
all these journals will kick your manuscript from of the submission database if they find any (assumed) formal error. It reads something like this Continue reading Bioinformatics does it, Allergy does it and Nature does it
Over and over I am flooded with emails like
Let me introduce myself to you. I am xxxxxxxxxx, completed M. Sc Micro Biology. At present I am working as a research Fellow in Centre for xxxxxxxx, xxxxxxxxxx, India. How are you sir? I am your student. How can I mean, in January 2005 you come to India. At that time your engaged some class to us in xxxxxxxxx College, Axxxxxxxx. Presently I am working on Genetics of “xxxxxxxxxxxx†under the esteemed guidance of Dr. xxxxxxxxxxx and Dr. xxxxxxxxxx. I am very much interested to do PhD. Herewith, I am sending my curriculum Vitae as attachment to your kind perusal. I assure you, I shall work with at most devotion and sincerity to give you satisfaction and also I am confident that I can lead PhD successfully with the experience I gained during my research work at xxxxxxxxx. Given a chance I will prove my caliber.
Continue reading Want to work with you
I could not find so much infomation out there about the HP Ipaq hw6515 power surge – my device runs on battery only a few hours if both GSM and GPS are being enabled. After several unsucessful attempts I found only two options to prolonge battery life – disabling both SD card slots and by CPU clocking down from ~300 to ~100 Mhz.
Munich has a long tradition (“Münchner Lach und Schiessgesellschaft“) of doing political comedy, known as “Kabarett” . Yesterday evening we have been in Schwabing’s “Lustpielhaus” to see Hagen Rether. Excellent, I would not have to write a science blog if I could earn my money by entertaining people on such a level …
A recent email of Donna Karolchik – the maintainer of my favorite human genome viewer – reports Continue reading New genome browser version
We already talked about academic salaries in Germany. “Academics – Das Karriereportal der Wissenschaft” now has some figures on extras. You may expect 250,000€ – 260,000€ in biosciences for your first professorship with annually 48,000€ for consumables. You will get 6 rooms on average and ~2 technical positions, yea, yea.
The WordPress editor window is somewhat odd if you are writing in text mode but need to scroll down to preview your post. From several blog editors that I have tested now – there is now one that made it onto my desktop. Scribe Fire is an advanced Firefox plugin that can be nicely configured as you can see on this screenshot.
The “powered by” can be switched off Continue reading Fire Scribe