Science & Nature
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Biological Units: The Strength of A Single Cell
Several recent papers have proposed methods of seeing huge numbers of individual RNA molecules within a cell. I suspect that…
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#MALCosmos Live-Tweet: Week 3!
Don’t forget to join in for this week’s #MALCosmos live-tweet of The Cosmos with Neil DeGrasse Tyson! Here is the episode…
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#MALCosmos Live-Tweet: Week 2!
Once again, your friends at Mad Art Lab will be live-tweeting tonight’s episode of The Cosmos with Neil DeGrasse Tyson!…
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Carolynn L Smith and the Astounding Richness of Animal Communication
You’re a rooster who’s down on his luck. Your comb is a bit shabby, your fighting skills aren’t up to…
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The things we do with our eggs; reproductive health and genetic engineering
This op-ed in the New York Times set off a few of my warning bells. There’s the refusal of the…
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Stem Cells, Stressed Cells, Healing, and the Lure of Rejuvenation
A recent study in Nature, entitled “Stimulus-triggered fate conversion of somatic cells into pluripotency“, suggests that subjecting cells to dangerous…
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A Promising New Treatment for PTSD, Straight From The Movies
A paper published two weeks ago in Cell promises an exciting new therapy for PTSD, at least in mice. And…
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What Can You Tell From a Color-Coded Chromosome?
In an article published earlier this month, researchers color-coded cells based on which of two X-chromosomes they expressed resulting in…
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