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http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=human-brain-project-digital-simulation-neuron

Nice article about “flavorists” and how they are searching for “white areas” of unplumbed taste. Appears the tongue just gets the basic things (sweet, salty, bitter, sour & “umani” from <30 receptors) while smelling the volatile compounds in food (using >300 olfactory receptors) accounts for most of their taste.
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/11/23/091123fa_fact_khatchadourian

The gene catalog for bacterial species is important !

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/13/health/genetic-database-of-bacteria-aims-to-track-food-borne-illness.html

http://www.genomeweb.com//node/1105316?hq_e=el&hq_m=1308293&hq_l=2&hq_v=b71e4120cb This award is going to made only to one institution!

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/07/09/120709fa_fact_specter ANNALS OF SCIENCETHE MOSQUITO SOLUTION
Can genetic modification eliminate a deadly tropical disease? by Michael Specter
JULY 9, 2012

Heart Risk in Athletes Is Gaining Attention – NYTimes.com
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/04/30/heart-risk-in-athletes-is-gaining-attention/?pagewanted=print

Champion Swimmer Found Dead in Arizona
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/02/sports/world-champion-swimmer-found-dead.html

3) A Life-Death Predictor Adds to a Cancer’s Strain
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/10/health/genetic-test-changes-game-in-cancer-prognosis.html

1) In Gene Sequencing Treatment for Leukemia, Glimpses of the Future – NYTimes.com
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/08/health/in-gene-sequencing-treatment-for-leukemia-glimpses-of-the-future.html?pagewanted=all

2) A New Treatment’s Tantalizing Promise Brings Heartbreaking Ups and Downs
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/09/health/new-frontiers-of-cancer-treatment-bring-breathtaking-swings.html?pagewanted=all

2) A New Treatment’s Tantalizing Promise Brings Heartbreaking Ups and Downs
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/09/health/new-frontiers-of-cancer-treatment-bring-breathtaking-swings.html?pagewanted=all

3) A Life-Death Predictor Adds to a Cancer’s Strain
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/10/health/genetic-test-changes-game-in-cancer-prognosis.html

1) In Gene Sequencing Treatment for Leukemia, Glimpses of the Future – NYTimes.com
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/08/health/in-gene-sequencing-treatment-for-leukemia-glimpses-of-the-future.html?pagewanted=all

1) In Gene Sequencing Treatment for Leukemia, Glimpses of the Future – NYTimes.com
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/08/health/in-gene-sequencing-treatment-for-leukemia-glimpses-of-the-future.html?pagewanted=all

2) A New Treatment’s Tantalizing Promise Brings Heartbreaking Ups and Downs
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/09/health/new-frontiers-of-cancer-treatment-bring-breathtaking-swings.html?pagewanted=all

3) A Life-Death Predictor Adds to a Cancer’s Strain
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/10/health/genetic-test-changes-game-in-cancer-prognosis.html

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1562978-1,00.html
911 effect led to an additional 1000 deaths on the road, viz: ”
So white-knuckle flyers routinely choose the car, heedless of the fact that at most a few hundred people die in U.S. commercial airline crashes in a year, compared with 44,000 killed in motor-vehicle wrecks. The most white-knuckle time of all was post–Sept. 11, when even confident flyers took to the roads. Not surprisingly, from October through December 2001 there were 1,000 more highway fatalities than in the same period the year before, in part because there were simply more cars around. “It was called the ‘9/11 effect.’
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