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.@whipflash cat allergic ppl getting placebo shot feel better (great data) but not as much as vaccine. Still, love that placebo effect!

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.@whipflash #Allergen2012: new vaccines for cat allergies (+more) under clinical review and look good - move from 'drugs for life' to cure

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Infant relapsing or persistent asthma IS associated with notably lower lung function that continues #Allergen2012

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Just learned that right when a bunch of sled dogs start moving, they tend to fart

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But still need more study whether mothers who are atopic (have allergy hypersensitivity) show breastfeeding benefit

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Latest review & meta-analysis reported @ AllerGen2012 supports breastfeeding as protective against asthma development in children

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My approach for avoiding asthma in my kids: Play in dirt, allow kids to dress up cat, dip kids in Mexican water as babies

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RT @iddux: Wikipedia pages on protein function prediction - http://bytesizebio.net/index...

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Malcolm Sears at AllerGen2012 Best way to protect your child from asthma: Don't smoke & get a cat/dog on way home from the maternity ward

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Star Wars Uncut - my son and I love the purring cat at 11:25 http://www.youtube.com/watch... TNTC great scenes

Star Wars Uncut - my son and I love the purring cat at 11:25 http://t.co/2bVdtEIe TNTC great scenes

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Star Wars Uncut is fantastic! http://www.youtube.com/watch... (group fan film project, 15 s at a time - true art)

Star Wars Uncut is fantastic! http://t.co/2bVdtEIe (group fan film project, 15 s at a time - true art)

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As mentioned at symposium: Latest Genome Canada Large Scale Applied Research competition announced http://www.genomecanada.ca/en...

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Carleton @GenomeBC symposium: Need to determine more how new pharmacogenetic tests are perceived by clinicians & patients.

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.@GenomeBC symposium: need more training of clinicians in genomics/pharmacogenetics, but make tests suitable for clinical use

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Carleton: Prescription side effects are 5th leading cause of death in North America but pharma says 8th - does that make you feel better?

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Carleton @GenomeBC symposium: prescription side effects are 5th leading cause of death in North America

January 24 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

Today @genomebc symposium talking about personalized medicine right now. Great talks by McManus/Keown/Karsan/Carleton

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Found out my husband is going to get injected with steroids while under radiation. Will he become a superhero?

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Hoping for smooth flight home. Last flight, crew turned off lights when smelling electrical burning - when I was in the windowless toilet

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#gcbioinf Canadian bioinformatics needs discussed sharing, data integration, Can. Bioinfo meeting/society, training, Cloud utility, funding

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#gcbioinf Discussing top 10 things we need to do to ensure future productivity of Canada in bioinformatics and comp bio

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#gcbioinf Learned today that data moving across Canada doesn't actually stay in Canada - it goes through US around Chicago

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#gcbioinf Canadian bioinformaticists: Take more advantage of FREE @ComputeCanada resources! More support for customizing HPC needs now

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#gcbioinf But Cloud costs higher because some admin, electrical costs, for local hardware covered by institution and not by your grant

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At #gcbioinf, Cloud estimated 2-4x the cost of managing hardware yourself but still can be worth headache savings.

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#gcbioinf Bioinformatics software maintenance: Funding by advertising can be very negatively viewed by some research groups

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#gcbioinf Discussing models of paying for bioinformatics software maintenance. Should advertising (aka Google model) be used more?

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#gcbioinf Need to provide better info to users re evaluation of related bioinformatics software

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#gcbioinf Bioinformatics software: need to appreciate more the work involved in dealing with new versions all the time

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#gcbioinf Bioinformatics software deployment solutions/aids: need best practices re development, stdrd's, publicizing, measuring usage

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