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Open Science Prize finalists include Open Air Quality and Real-time Pathogen Surveillance. 

By Jonathan Eisen   Posted in .Featured Air and Air Quality Infectious Diseases Methods and Tools Scholarly Communication
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The six finalists for the Open Science Prize were announced today.  The Open Science Prize is “The Open Science Prize is a collaboration between the Wellcome Trust, the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute to unleash the power of open content and data to advance biomedical research and its …

New papers on microbiology of the built environment, August 24, 2015

By Elisabeth Bik   Posted in Scholarly Literature (Journals, Books, Reports)
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This week’s papers are about microbes found on hospital doorknobs, spacecraft assembly cleanrooms, a painting by Leonardo da Vinci, in waste water, and in creosote-treated wood composting. I could not find a song about the specific painting featured here, but Panic at the Disco had a song about another famous painting by LdV: The Ballad of Mona …