Medicine
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Papaver Somniferum
I present to you my latest painting, Papaver Somniferum, aka the opium poppy. In the United States we are dealing…
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Fighting Penicillin’s Monster: Elizabeth Hazen and Rachel Brown. (Women in Science 68)
Who (besides, obviously, bacteria) doesn’t love penicillin? It’s on everybody’s shortlist of the most important things we’ve discovered to improve…
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Lavinia Waterhouse: Gold Rush Physician, Frontier Suffragette. (Women in Science 58).
Lavinia Waterhouse (1809-1890) lives at the intersection of a tangle of ideas that, to the 21st Century mind, have no…
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Argonne National Laboratory’s Microbiome Project: Surgery
Shortly after I’d written my last post (let’s not reflect on how long ago that was), I got tapped for…
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Blue Babies with Crossword Puzzle Hearts: The Pediatric Cardiology of Helen Taussig. (Women in Science 56)
It’s sometime in the 1930s, and you’re walking into a ward full of crouching children with blue-tinted lips. Something is…
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Yet another high profile paper about yet another epigenome that says the same thing, yet again.
A recent study developed a new way of probing the genome for “accessible” sites, and found the same things that…
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Lymph, There It Is: Florence Sabin, Pioneer Woman of Medical Research (Women in Science 39)
For women in science, posterity has three fates in store. Some, like Marie Curie or Rosalyn Yalow, are recognized in…
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