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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…

10. February 20208. March 2020
Categories Daily Posts, Health

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…

4. February 20204. February 2020
Categories Funfact Friday, Health, Open Questions

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…

24. January 202026. January 2020
Categories Daily Posts

Monday, 20.01.2020 – How to Create Disruptive Research Teams

Link of the day: Ingredients for creating disruptive research teams A friend of mine, Stefan Torges, has written up a quite extensive summary of the…

20. January 202020. January 2020
Categories Daily Posts, Environment

Sunday, 19.01.2020 – Why Published Science May Systematically Underestimate the Effects of Climate Change

Link of the day: Scientists Have Been Underestimating the Pace of Climate Change Scientific publications may systematically underestimate the effects and the speed of climate…

19. January 202019. January 2020
Categories Daily Posts, Health

Saturday, 18.01.2020 – Relaxed Beliefs Under Psychedelics

Link of the day: SSC Journal Club – Relaxed beliefs under psychedelics and the anarchic brain Psychedelics are increasingly tested for therapeutic use. There are…

18. January 202018. January 2020
Categories Daily Posts

Tuesday, 14.01.2020 – Informing The Public by Withholding Information

Link of the day: Coarse Grades: Informing the Public by Withholding Information (paper) Certificates and test results e.g. for safety, environmental or ethical standards often…

14. January 202014. January 2020
Categories Daily Posts, Health

Sunday, 12.01.2020 – Human Body Temperature Has Decreased in the Last 150 Years

Link of the day: Decreasing human body temperature in the United States since the industrial revolution (scientific paper) Average body temperature may be declining compared…

12. January 202012. January 2020
Categories Daily Posts

Saturday, 04.01.2020 – Scientific Process and Predominant Ideas- The Story of Alzheimer’s Disease

Link of the day: How the predominant idea that Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) is caused by plaques in the brain may have slowed down scientific progress…

4. January 20203. January 2020

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