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Chronic Fatigue Syndrome is like hibernation? by Ian Woolf,
Associate Professor Mat Todd talks about Open Source malaria research - part 1.
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Associate Professor Matthew Todd
Open Source Malaria
Open Source Malaria project head wins Accelerating Science Award

Metabolic features of chronic fatigue syndrome
Naviax's metabolism paper is about as big as you think - MEAction
Blood simple?- A new test may diagnose a mysterious illness, and also help to explain it

Edited version of my interview with Matt Todd for the PLOS ASAP awards, video by Adrian Tan

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Excel breaks science by Ian Woolf,
Matt Todd explains Open Source Malaria research, and the acceleration of science, part 2.
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Associate Professor Matthew Todd

Open Source malaria Project
Open Source Drug Discovery: Highly Potent Antimalarial Compounds Derived from the Tres Cantos Arylpyrroles
Medicines for Malaria Venture
Making drug development less secretive could lead to quicker, cheaper therapies

Open source malaria research paves way for cheap medicine

Gene name errors are widespread in the scientific literature
One in five genetics papers contains errors thanks to Microsoft Excel
20% of scientific papers on genes contain gene name conversion errors
caused by Excel
Years of genomics research is riddled with errors thanks to a bunch of botched Excel spreadsheets
An alarming number of scientific papers contain Excel errors
Microsoft Excel blamed for gene study errors
5 of the worst Excel blunders
Stop auto correction and auto formatting (Microsoft forum)

Edited version of my interview with Matt Todd for the PLOS ASAP awards, video by Adrian Tan

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Carnivorous plants fluoresce blue by Ian Woolf,
Fresh Science Bright Sparks Challenge:
Kyle Ewart identifies rhino horn,
Minal Menezes detects mitochondrial diseases,
Dr Ellen Jorgenson talks about GenSpace.
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Kyle Ewart

Minal Menezes

Fresh Science Bright Spark Challenge 2016

Fluorescent prey traps in carnivorous plants
Carnivorous plant species glow blue to lure prey
These Carnivorous Plants Glow Under Ultraviolet Light to Attract Prey
Glowing Nepenthes: “Sabre” and “Song of Melancholy”

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Oldest computer music restored by Ian Woolf,
Stewart McPherson talks about climbing 300 mountains to research 25 books and films on carnivorous plants part 1.
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Stewart McPherson’s books and expeditions

The Britain’s Treasure Islands TV series website (with 42 free online films)

Stewart McPherson’s new KickStarter project (please support if you can!)
Australasian Carnivorous Plant Society

Restoring the first recording of computer music
Researchers restore the first ever computer-generated music, made in Alan Turing's lab
First recording of computer-generated music – created by Alan Turing – restored