Episode 6: Boss-Level Antibiotics

Get ready for better arsenic detection, broad-spectrum antibiotics, model-breaking massive galaxies, Julia and Python working in harmony, a hard-to-pronounce R-package on Gaussian mixture models, and Department of Defense lung cancer grants aplenty.  Science On. References: Scalable selective absorber with quasiperiodic nanostructure for low-grade solar energy harvesting Toward surface-enhanced Raman scattering using electroless substrate for trace arsenic detection and speciation Site-specific encoding of photoactivity and photoreactivity into antibody fragments Complete Genome Sequence of the Lysogenic Pseudomonas Bacteriophage Fyn8 A broad-spectrum synthetic antibiotic that does not evoke bacterial resistance Discovery of massive early galaxies defies prior understanding of the universe Julia and Python better together DOD: Multidisciplinary Research Program of the University Research Initiative (MURI) DOD: Lung Cancer, Concept Award DOD: Lung Cancer, Translational Research Award DOD: Lung Cancer, Idea Development Award DOD: Lung Cancer, Career Development Award NASA: Early Career Faculty FDA: Natural History and Biomarker Studies of Rare Neurodegenerative Diseases LCRF: Leading Edge Research Grant Program UMDF: Research Grant Program R-packages: dataMojo: Reshape Data Table ggmapinset: Add Inset Panels to Maps bubbleHeatmap: Produces 'bubbleHeatmap' Plots for Visualising Metabolomics Data gmmsslm: Semi-Supervised Gaussian Mixture Model with a Missing-Data Mechanism rWCVP: Generating Summaries, Reports and Plots from the World Checklist of Vascular Plants