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WelcomeA community for the advancement of standards for AR has formed. As it is a grassroots initiative, there is no formal administrative structure for this community. These pages serve as a digital repository of information that the community gathers/contributes.

Genome Institute of Singapore's (GIS) Associate Director of Genomic Technologies, Dr. Yijun RUAN, led a continuing study on the human genome spatial/structural configuration, revealing how genes interact/communicate and influence each other, even when they are located far away from each other. This discovery is crucial in understanding how human genes work together, and will re-write textbooks on how transcription regulation and coordination takes place in human cells.

What if every scientist could share their data as easily as they tweet about their lunch? Michael Nielsen calls for scientists to embrace new tools for collaboration that will enable discoveries to happen at the speed of Twitter. A physicist turned writer, Michael Nielsen believes online communication and collaboration tools are revolutionizing the way we make scientific discoveries.

" Brain cells talk to each other in a variety of tones. Sometimes they speak loudly but other times struggle to be heard. For many years scientists have asked why and how brain cells change tones so frequently. Today National Institutes of Health researchers showed that brief bursts of chemical energy coming from rapidly moving power plants, called mitochondria, may tune brain cell communication."

Here's a good reason to pay attention in math class. Nature Communications has published a paper from Ottawa researchers today, outlining how advanced mathematical modelling can be used in the fight against cancer. The technique predicts how different treatments and genetic modifications might allow cancer-killing, oncolytic viruses to overcome the natural defences that cancer cells use to stave off viral infection.

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Gerald Edelman believes neurons are selected for using darwinian principles.  His views on science are "Science is imagination in the service of the verifiable truth and that service is indeed communal. It cannot be rigidly planned. Rather, it requires freedom and courage and the plural contributions of many different kinds of people who must maintain their individuality whilst giving to the group".

This image shows datasets that have been published in Linked Data format, by contributors to the Linking Open Data community project and other individuals and organisations.

Sweet game teaching RNA principles through fun. Also allows experimentation and sharing through community. 

When working with remote employees, managers often don't have the luxury of relying on visual cues to tell if an employee is truly understanding instructions or feedback. The blank stare, the quizzical look, the phony nod of understanding - all of these staple non-verbal indicators of, "I don't get it" (or, "I'm not paying attention") are usually unavailable when working in a virtual environment.

Modeling biological systems is a significant task of systems biology and mathematical biology. Computational systems biology aims to develop and use efficient algorithms, data structures, visualization and communication tools with the goal of computer modeling of biological systems.

A virtual world designed to enhance learning, By putting students in realistic situations and encouraging practise based learning. 

This is a like minded group to the #HumanAtlasProject.

Bay Area Community Exchange Presents John Robb's Open Source Ventures Friday, March 18, 2011 at 7:30 PM (PT) San Francisco, CA this is free- suggest if you can make it you make it ... should be good info

If education as delivered in the modern American university were fulfilling its mission, would the world look the way it does? We are struck by a simple observation of the state of the world: there is more hunger, poverty, war, crime and disease extant than at any time in history. Even accounting for a growing population, one might reasonably expect that if we are a society that learns from prior mistakes and gains in wisdom as a result then shouldn't the world look quite different by now? Shouldn't we have managed to quell the negative tendencies of society so that life is substantially improved for the majority of humanity? One would think that with all the knowledge afforded by science and the clever technologies we have developed that education would have produced a generation of able citizens capable of making rational decisions in community, politics and economics. The evidence provided in the daily news suggests this is not the case.

I love good infographics...when done right- they just work in communicating information to viewers better then any other means. check out this one - and not what people use their mobile for most...games...