Daily Archives: 3 Oct, 2014

House science committee is digging for dirt in NSF's confidential records of peer review

Posted on 3 Oct, 2014 by Jeremy Yoder

ScienceInsider reports that aides for the U.S. House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology have been spending the summer digging through records of grant the grant review process that the National Science Foundation usually keeps confidential: The Republican aides were … Continue reading →

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What we're reading: Sorting out whole-genome duplication, adaptation without tradeoffs, and is science leaving its logistic growth phase?

Posted on 3 Oct, 2014 by Jeremy Yoder

In the journals McGrath CL, J-F Gout, P Johri, TG Doak, and M Lynch. Differential retention and divergent resolution of duplicate genes following whole-genome duplication. 2014. Genome Res. 24: 1665-1675. doi: 10.1101/gr.173740.114. Finally, multiple sources of evidence indicate that [Paramecium] … Continue reading →

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