Medical podcasts going viral

Invited: "Going viral" with biological sequence analysis

Viruses have been implicated as the causative agents for a variety of cancers as well as diseases of the major physiological systems (e.g., nervous, respiratory, immune, reproductive, etc.), and viral infections have consistently ranked among the leading causes of death worldwide. Although viruses exhibit extreme biological diversity, plainly evidenced by the Baltimore classification of their g...

Going Viral ? Comparing Parties on Social Media

While research has provided useful insights into political party use of Twitter, comparably few efforts have focused on the arguably more popular Facebook service. This paper takes both platforms into account, detailing similar functionalities and providing analyses of the social media activities undertaken by Swedish political parties during the 2014 elections. Moreover, the types of feedback ...

Going Retro: Ancient Viral Origins of Cognition

In this issue of Neuron, Zhang et al. (2015) provide the first crystal structure of a domain Arc. These results confirm prior computational approaches that suggested Arc, a master regulator of vertebrate synaptic plasticity, was "domesticated" from Ty3/Gypsy retrotransposons.

Twelve tips for using podcasts in medical education.

There is increasing use of podcasts by young people, including medical students. Podcasts offer small packages of educational material that allow selective replay to consolidate learning, especially for exam revision. Podcasts can be provided in a variety of formats and played on a range of devices, both static and mobile. Maximum educational impact requires careful attention to production and ...

Medical book marketing 101: going it alone.