70 research teams were tasked with analyzing the same identical set of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) brain scans. In many areas, they came to…
Tag: Science
First Attempts to Reverse Aging in Humans
Most people think of aging as something inevitable. But not all agree and the research into aging and how to reverse it has become more…
The Effect of Sci-Hub on Science
In 2016 Alexandra Elbakyan was listed as one of the top 10 people who mattered in science by Nature. And indeed, her impact on science…
Retraction Watch – Tracking Retractions as a Window Into the Scientific Process
I recently learned about a cool website called Retraction Watch. They do exactly what the name suggests: They track papers that get retracted to highlight…
Wednesday, 04.03.2020 – People Born Blind Seem To Be Protected From Schizophrenia
Link of the day: People Born Blind Are Mysteriously Protected From Schizophrenia These findings suggest that something about congenital blindness may protect a person from…
Tuesday, 03.03.2020 – Captain Joe And The Marvels Of Aviation
Link of the day: Captain Joe’s YouTube Channel Recently, my friend Tobi showed me the YouTube channel of Captain Joe, a pilot who explains lots…
Sunday, 01.03.2020 – Betting On the Reproducibility of Scientific Studies
Link of the day: Replication Markets Replicatiomarkets is a scientific project that aims to assess how reproducible scientific studies are – and how we might…
Can the Coronavirus be Stopped through Contact Tracing and Isolation?
Link of the day: Feasibility of controlling 2019-nCoV outbreaks by isolation of cases and contacts While in London I co-worked on a paper about the…
Tuesday, 04.02.2020 – Why Companies Abandon The Development of New Antibiotics
Links of the day: Biopharma has abandoned antibiotic development. Here’s why we did, too. Recently, I wrote a piece arguing that pharma companies should be…
Phenoptosis – Are We Programmed to Die?
In 1999 the Russian biochemist Vladimir Skulachev coined the term Phenoptosis in his paper. In analogy to apoptosis (planned cell death), where cells undergo a…