Links 9/27/15
Links for you. Science: Dramatic rise seen in antibiotic use: New report provides the most comprehensive picture yet of antibiotic use and resistance worldwide. Union Rescue Mission CEO Will Never Walk...
View ArticleNCBI To Rename Incorrect Genomes…
…microbiologists everywhere rejoice. I spent part of last week at the ASM Conference on Rapid Next-Generation Sequencing and Bioinformatic Pipelines for Enhanced Molecular Epidemiologic Investigation...
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Links for you. Science: Birds of a feather… This startup thinks it can speed up a cure for cancer by bringing scientific research into the YouTube era Vaccine Clears Some Precancerous Cervical Lesions...
View ArticleIt’s William Gibson’s World–We Just Live In It
This, from Japan, is utterly surreal: “There has never been a gang war with drones available to drop bombs into the offices of rivals,” a detective with the Hyogo Police Department told VICE News on...
View ArticleLinks 9/29/15
Links for you. Science: The Folly of Mars: Space travel for a new millennialism (the most recent iteration of people versus robots) Should Martin Shkreli be allowed to play the Good Samaritan defense?...
View ArticleClear-Cut Fishing
A few years ago, in a post about a reconstructed fish weir–a fence used to trap fish–I noted that, historically, this was a good strategy: Every year, a fishweir is reconstructed on the Boston Common...
View ArticleLinks 9/30/15
Links for you. Science: Do human extraintestinal Escherichia coli infections resistant to expanded-spectrum cephalosporins originate from food-producing animals? A systematic review. The art and...
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