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Biology
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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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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Biology
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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Tricking the Light Fantastic: How to Use Photons to See Something Smaller Than a Photon
A while back I compared visualizing something on the nanometer scale (like, for instance, a DNA strand) with optical microscopy…
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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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Biology
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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You are your gene expression: why it’s not surprising that meditation changes epigenetics
A study came out that was a rather nice demonstration of some molecular changes that actually drive the benefits of…
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Biology
Aging, Metabolism, and Basic Biology
I’m really happy when a plan comes together, which means when my general plan of “talk about science journalism and…
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