The National Center for Biomedical Ontology
Now if we could just get other communities of practice to get themselves this organized at ontologizing their domains.
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The National Center for Biomedical Ontology
Posted in Biology & Medicine, Ontology & Science on February 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Genie in Your Genes
Posted in Healing on February 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Genie in Your Genes
But what if I like eating pills?
Listening to Prozac but Hearing Placebo: A Meta-Analysis of Antidepressant Medication
Posted in Healing on February 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Listening to Prozac but Hearing Placebo: A Meta-Analysis of Antidepressant Medication
Concerning the lame editor’s note: Meta-analysis is controversial in the same way that mammals were controversial to the dinosaurs.
The New Atlantis – The Promise and Perils of Synthetic Biology – Jonathan B. Tucker and Raymond A. Zilinskas
Posted in Systems Biology on December 9, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The New Atlantis – The Promise and Perils of Synthetic Biology – Jonathan B. Tucker and Raymond A. Zilinskas
Just because there’s so much evolved biology that we don’t understand doesn’t mean we can’t go ahead and build some biology of our own that we don’t understand, either.
Effect of Electrostatic Field on Gene Expression
Posted in Systems Biology on December 2, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
United States Patent 5,048,458
So, the application of an electrostatic field can have a massive effect on gene expression patterns in developing organisms.
In this example, the results were favorable. I don’t suppose that’s necessarily always the case.
Maybe somebody should try to figure out how it works.
