For You Guys in the Sciences

[Strategus]

If any of you guys are in college studying the biological or medically related sciences, you know the journal _Nature_ for sure. It's one of the top 10 journals in biology and medicine along with _Science_, NEJM, and so on.

Well, this week's article has a commentary AND an editorial that I think you might like, especially as it is published to coincide with the Olympics.

http://www.nature.com/nature/index.html (toward bottom of page)

If you're in a university library, you might be able to get the full text of the commentary and editorial. Unfortunately, _Nature_ is a subscription-based journal, so the articles aren't open to those w/o a subscription.

In the commentary, Donald A. Berry, a high-ranking statistician, calls into question the procedures used to charge athletes with cheating and cites the Floyd Landis testosterone case.

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal...l/454692a.html

This blog post quotes a portion of the editorial.

http://scienceblogs.com/drugmonkey/2...dopin.php#more

It's noteworthy because _Nature_ is one of the top 5 or 10 journals in the biomedical sciences and anything published in that journal carries a heavy weight in the scientific community.

Enjoy!

[MuscleScience]

Nice find

[Prada]

Ahhhh I remember learning about Bayes rule in Stats.

[Voice of Reason]

http://sciencenews.org/pictures/repoxygen/index.html

[MuscleScience]

http://sciencenews.org/pictures/repoxygen/index.html

That was pretty cool, I use to work with gene cloning in bacteria. Nothing as complicated as that vid. It was hard enough to get the bacteria to take up a designer gene I couldnt imagine doing it in a human. That is some hardcore science at work.