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Any interesting papers on your list you do not mind sharing?

First up is "High-resolution reversible folding of hyperstable RNA tetraloops using molecular dynamics simulations" Chen & Garcia (September 16, 2013, doi: 10.1073/pnas.1309392110 PNAS September 16, 2013) which is a bit of a cheat because I'm teaching it next week, and I know Alan.

The following week will be; "Oral Treatment Targeting the Unfolded Protein Response Prevents Neurodegeneration and Clinical Disease in Prion-Infected Mice" Moreno et al (Sci Transl Med 9 October 2013: Vol. 5, Issue 206, p. 206ra138

And after that something from Don Cleverland (UCSF)'s lab, as I saw him speak not that long ago and he blew my mind.

That being said, I'd also (probably) take requests!

Why don't you make it a business model and monetize laymanizing/summarizing papers by request? Just thinking, you could, you don't need to. If you consider that, you could invite colleagues to do the same on a distributed platform/blog. So that every new scientist can just connect and add value, without getting vendor-locked. Who knows, maybe there is a market for selling the results of "peer-review" ;)

You know what? I wish that you get rich with that! Everbody would benefit from more openness in Science. I hate that many many publishers squeeze scientists out like parasitic worms and also cash on us and other scientist who just want to read the paper. They rip us off in the range of $5-$300 per paper and do that with mostly keeping 100% of the profit.

Their industry damaging business model: A←parasite-publisher→B

Breaking Bad: With an open business model: A←→B←→C←→D …

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