Ouroboros

Recently I've been seeing a lot of Chris Patil's posts over at Ouroboros on Twitter. Worth checking out. He's hosting on the Hourglass on the biology of aging right now, though readers of this weblog might find Did aging evolve to prevent epidemics? of more interest.

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As I sang the praises the other day about Chris Patil's contributions to a recent PLoS biology paper and in launching the Hourglass blog carnival, I wanted to post the call for submissions: Hi all -- I just posted the call for submissions for Hourglass V, the fifth installation of our blog carnival…
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