Medicine
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The Knick on Showtime – Your New TV Habit
I hope you had a merry Christmas/Newtonmas/Whatevermas! If you are lucky enough to have some time off now and want…
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NOVA Vaccines – Calling the Shots Review
I found out about this special through Tangled Bank, the awesome production house that worked on Neil Shubin’s Your Inner…
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Dr. Tania Singer and the Neuroscience of Empathy
The year is 1990 and a man is sitting across from a monkey. Between them is an object that will,…
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Lab Track: I’m Cured
Labber Anne spotted this one, and it might just be my favorite lab track of all time. Written by comedy…
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Wellcome Library Images and Finding My Inner Fish
MAL’s very own Beth brought this sweetass article about the Wellcome image collection to my attention recently. The Wellcome Museum…
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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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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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