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This may be a big news

If you study neuroscience, I think you should have known Susumu Tonegawa (Wikipedia), the Nobel laureate.  And here is a piece of recent news about him and Alla Karpova.

An Inexpensive Gel Imaging System using iPhoto

MacResearch introduced a cheap way to setup a gel imaging system using Mac from a Drosophila lab.

Wow, he is brave

How to cure your asthma or hayfever using hookworm – a practical guide

Sing, Sing a Song, Pi

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This animal is amazing

Shrimp spring into shattering action

老鼠们通过逆向回放巩固记忆

这是多么梦幻啊。如果在现场看球时有这功能就好了。对了,这对我们放置捕鼠笼会有什么启示?

Nature 新闻: Instant replay may help to mould memories

论文: Reverse replay of behavioural sequences in hippocampal place cells during the awake state

附 New Yorker 上漫画一张

Amazing multi-touch sensing demo

Multi-Touch Interaction Research at NYU

Bayesian thinking?

Bayesian is hot. We use it to block spam, to predict patterns. And recently people think we are Bayesian thinking machine. Cool. If I learned the Bayesian algorithm, can I get smarter? Read Bayes rules.

Seem this is the research paper, if Economist.com made an error.

Clontech can’t be happy

In a review written by well-known neuroscientist Roger Tsien and his colleagues, Clontech was mention as “(f)or example, the newly released DsRed-Monomer (Clontech) is described as “bright,” even though in fact, it is the dimmest monomeric red fluorescent protein (RFP) presently available.”

Unfortunately, the review is titled “A guide to choosing fluorescent proteins” (doi:10.1038/nmeth819, the review is subscription required).