Organisms on the Extreme Edge (Season 3: Episode 44)

Get ready for pre-metazoan stem-cell transcription factors, Precambrian ecdyozoans, hyperarid microbes, a native mobile app for R, and a grant to study dirty mouse models. Science On. References: The emergence of Sox and POU transcription factors predates the origins of animal stem cells An Ediacaran bilaterian with an ecdysozoan affinity from South Australia Inside the Atacama Desert: uncovering the living microbiome of an extreme environment Regression Models: How do you know you need a polynomial term? You’ve Been Waiting for Native Mobile Apps with R? The Wait Is Over. Bioconductor 3.20 Released NIAID: Leveraging Microbial Exposure for Improving Mouse Models of Human Immunity NICHD: Small Research Grant Program R Packages: cellularautomata: Cellular Automata sampledatasets: A Collection of Sample Datasets RegrCoeffsExplorer: Efficient Visualization of Regression Coefficients for lm(), glm(), and glmnet() Objects