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A Summary of Scifoo

Aug 10, 2009

Now that Scifoo is over and done with for this year, Bertalan Meskó at ScienceRoll sums up the event and his coverage of it. In one post, he talks about a session he helped organize on how virtual worlds can be useful for science and medicine.

Though slightly unrelated, Meskó also posts on a visit to Navigenics headquarters (complete with photos) and lets readers know that 23andMe is sending representatives to the Second Life virtual world in a chat with Nature at 1:00 pm EST tomorrow.

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CDC Calls Delta "Variant of Concern"

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Cell Studies on Multimodal Single-Cell Analysis, Coronaviruses in Bats, Urban Microbiomes

In Cell this week: approach to analyze multimodal single-cell genomic data, analysis of bat coronaviruses, and more.