Population study in Italy suggests that though old age increase rate of #Alzheimer and #Cancer it is very rare that a given person has both cancer as well alzheimer.
I can somehow understand how cancer kills before alzheimer sets in but it's striking that old people with alzheimer seem to be "cancer free".
Anyone any biological take on this?
#science #paper #populationstudy
Inverse occurrence of cancer and Alzheimer disease
Abstract Objective: To evaluate the incidence of cancer in persons with Alzheimer disease (AD) and the incidence of AD dementia in persons with cancer. Methods: This was a cohort study in Northern Italy on more than 1 million residents. Cancer incidence was derived from the local health authority (ASL-Mi1) tumor registry and AD dementia incidence from registries of drug prescriptions, hospitalizations, and payment exemptions. Expected cases o…
Cool little "history" article about the +Raspberry Pi in +WIRED . From the idea, to getting the funding till in the end being able to fully produce this as a british produce. Pretty neat!
It has no screen or keyboard, but the Raspberry Pi computer sold a million units in its first 12 months. This is how a group of Cambridge academies created Britain’s biggest hardware hit for a generation
It is good to see that open access is becoming the standard. Only sad to see that a powerful funding body like +Wellcome Trust isn't able to get closer to these rates achieved by +National Institutes of Health (NIH) !
Next step is all about full open data I hope!
"NIH sees surge in open-access manuscripts" http://feedly.com/k/19SZnw0
In May, authors approved more than 10000 peer-reviewed manuscripts arising from NIH-funded research to go into the agency’s online free repository, PubMed Central. That’s a huge jump from the average 5100 per month in 2011–12, and suggests the agency is nearing its goal of getting everyone it …
Some new tools are being developed to enable people to construct a multiview experience from whatever is happening. By combining video sources and putting them in the right time frame you can get a much clearer view of how a story has been evolving
One example of this kind of technologies and what it can do can be found here:
http://rashomonproject.org/istanbul/
This is a combination of several different footages shot at the protest at Taksim, Istanbul earlier.
Sign in. Prototype: (Under Construction). The Rashomon Project: An Online Toolkit for Assembling Multi-Perspective Chronologies. A CITRIS Data & Democracy Project · Source Code About Rashomon. TIMELINE. ↑. ↓. 00:00:00. x. Metadata.
So now it's final (sort off) though many genes have many transcripts in the end there is most often just one dominant one :)
"Genome Biology | Abstract | Transcriptome analysis of human tissues and cell lines reveals one dominant transcript per gene" http://feedly.com/k/16L88Xh
+***** well done!
Genome Biology | Abstract | Transcriptome analysis of human tissues and cell lines reveals one dominant transcript per gene
RNA sequencing has opened new avenues for the study of transcriptome composition. Significant evidence has accumulated showing that the human transcriptome contains in excess of a hundred thousand different transcripts. However, it is still not clear to what extent this diversity prevails when considering the relative abundances of different transcripts from the same gene.