KCTD13 a Driver of Neurodevelopmental Phenotypes Associated with the 16p11.2 CNV
Golzio, Willer et al., Nature
An international team led by investigators at Duke University shows that KCTD13 "is a major driver for the neurodevelopmental phenotypes associated with the 16p11.2 CNV [copy-number variant]," a finding that it says substantiates "the idea that one or a small number of transcripts within a CNV can underpin clinical phenotypes, and offer an efficient route to identifying dosage-sensitive loci."
A Beef with Publishers
February 22, 2012
At The Crux blog, Mike Taylor — a dinosaur paleobiologist at the University of Bristol in the UK — says that academic publishing is "in a horrible mess," and that authors and publishers have increasingly antagonistic relationships. The Cost of Knowledge boycott — the refusal of more than 6,000 researchers to write, edit, or review articles for Elsevier because of the publisher's support for the Research Works Act — illustrates this new tense relationship, Taylor says.
While issues like RWA were the "immediate triggers" of the anger, they aren't the real cause. "Now there are no technical barriers to access, the only way publishers can charge for it is by making barriers: paywalls. So we have a huge and tragic disconnect: what publishers want — barriers — is the exact opposite of what authors want — universal access. It’s authors vs. publishers," he adds.