Jonathan Eisen, professor at UC Davis and Academic Editor in Chief of PLoS, wrote an interesting entry in his blog: “Tracing the evolutionary history of Sarah Palin: links to a parasitic nematode and the pathogenic fungus Botryotinia fuckeliana“.

It is always fun to see unique application of sequence databases and tools. Dr. Eisen also mentioned looking [...]

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In her blog “Discovering Biology in a Digital World“, Sandra Porter discusses a cool feature in PubMed which offers links to patient drug information about the drugs that are discussed in that particular article. I decided to try it out! For instance, I searched “cervical cancer vaccine”[tiab] and clicked on the “review” tab to [...]

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