A weekly overview of helpful scientific research topics and the successor of the podcast Statistics Weekly. Every week, I will cover 3 topic areas: Research Art...
Get ready for RNA lanterns, fungal batteries, punk rock mollusks, supercharged hornworts, the top 10 DO LOOP posts of 2024, vanishing sentences in R, and a Trailblazer award from the NIH. Science On.
References:
A modular platform for bioluminescent RNA tracking
3D Printed Cellulose-Based Fungal Battery
Redox-activatable inhalable mucoadhesive proteinic nanotherapeutics for targeted treatment of lung cancer
New Silurian aculiferan fossils reveal complex early history of Mollusca
Electrical signaling and coordinated behavior in the closest relative of animals
Repetitive injury induces phenotypes associated with Alzheimer’s disease by reactivating HSV-1 in a human brain tissue model
Hornworts reveal a spatial model for pyrenoid-based CO2-concentrating mechanisms in land plants
Diverse plant RNAs coat Arabidopsis leaves and are distinct from apoplastic RNAs
Two decades of bacterial ecology and evolution in a freshwater lake
Top 10 posts from The DO Loop in 2024
Your Classifier Is Broken, But It Is Still Useful
Little useless-useful R functions – Vanishing sentences
NIH: Trailblazer Award for New and Early Stage Investigators
NSF: Enabling Discovery through GEnomics
R Packages:
ellmer: Chat with Large Language Models
utf8ify: Format Text Using Unicode
creepyalien: Puzzle Game for the R Console
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The Close of 2024 (Season 3: Episode 48)
Get ready for a recap of the best scientific articles from 2024. Science On.
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Expect the Unexpected (Season 3: Episode 47)
Get ready for mass-shifting quasiparticles, deep sea predatory amphipods, tiny asteroids, cancer-related datasets in R, and a systems biology grant for better crop production. Science On.
References:
Semi-Dirac Fermions in a Topological Metal
Insect Mitochondrial Genomics: A Decade of Progress
A new large predator (Amphipoda, Eusiridae) hidden at hadal depths of the Atacama Trench
JWST sighting of decameter main-belt asteroids and view on meteorite sources
7 New Books added to Big Book of R [7/12/2024]
NIH: HEAL Initiative-Early-Stage Discovery of New Pain Targets Within the Understudied Druggable Proteome
NSF: Chemical Evolution of the Solid Earth and Volcanology
NSF: Life and Environments Through Time
DOE: Systems Biology Research to Advance Bioenergy Crop Production
R Packages:
OncoDataSets: A Comprehensive Collection of Cancer Types and Cancer-Related Datasets
TransProR: Analysis and Visualization of Multi-Omics Data
warehouseTools: Heuristics for Solving the Traveling Salesman Problem in Warehouse Layouts
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Messy Disease Busting (Season 3: Episode 46)
Get ready for mosquito busting, tuberculosis busting, the Tapestry whole exome sequencing study, the Journal of Statistical Software Volume 111, a messy R package, and a grant for tissue engineering on the International Space Station. Science On.
References:
Chromobacterium biopesticide overcomes insecticide resistance in malaria vector mosquitoes
How fast are viruses spreading in the wild?
Environmental fungi target thiol homeostasis to compete with Mycobacterium tuberculosis
A Large-Scale Decentralized Whole Exome Sequencing Study for Clinical Practice, Research Discovery, and Genomic Education
A dry Venusian interior constrained by atmospheric chemistry
Journal of Statistical Software Volume 111
A historical method of generating random normal variates
Positron vs RStudio – is it time to switch?
Introducing the {messy} package
NCCIH: Natural Product Mid Phase Clinical Trial
NSF: Tissue Engineering and Mechanobiology on the International Space Station
R Packages:
messy: Create Messy Data from Clean Data Frames
RCNA: Robust Copy Number Alteration Detection (RCNA)
epiparameterDB: Database of Epidemiological Parameters
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Tumors and Gas Giants (Season 3: Episode 45)
Get ready for cancer growth rates, the interior of Uranus and Neptune, the November Juliahub Newsletter, and a grant on biomedical informatics. Science On.
References:
High-density sampling reveals volume growth in human tumours
Phase separation of planetary ices explains nondipolar magnetic fields of Uranus and Neptune
Juliahub Newsletter November 2024
NLM Research Grants in Biomedical Informatics and Data Science
R Packages:
autoslider.core: Slide Automation for Tables, Listings and Figures
evolved: Open Software for Teaching Evolutionary Biology at Multiple Scales Through Virtual Inquiries
scatterbar: Scattered Stacked Bar Chart Plots
TimeDepFrail: Time Dependent Shared Frailty Cox Model
A weekly overview of helpful scientific research topics and the successor of the podcast Statistics Weekly. Every week, I will cover 3 topic areas: Research Articles, Research Tools, and Research Funding. Science On.
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