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Cake First, Worries Later
After weeks of editing, gallons of coffee, and some very intense science moments, our pre-/post-doc AHA grants were submitted this week. Great job, grant writers! Super proud of all of us. Bunch of thanks to Dominic, our lab manager who supported everybody and helped us survive this. While the results are still months away, we…
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NHLBI R01 Renewal Application Receives 14th Percentile
We look forward to continuing our work on protein alternative splicing and examine how splice variants affect proteostasis in cardiac diseases. Fingers Crossed!
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BioArXiV article on Gene Annotation Bias
We previously published a data science method PubPular to calculate the co-occurrence of genes and queried topics on PubMed articles, and suggested that normalized co-publication distance (NCD) may be used as a metric to discover the connection its between a gene/protein and a disease or physiological process. A manuscript posted on the bioRxiv preprint server…
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Quantifying the Value of Basic Science
In this era of constrained research funding, the value of basic research to the public is sometimes debated. Arguments are often advanced anecdotally: on the one hand well known example on the unpredictable later applicability of basic research abound, from CRISPR to modern innovations on smart phones, which built upon research in the 60s on…