Biology
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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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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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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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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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Battle of the Sexes: Why Mammals Won’t Lose the Y.
An Op-Ed by Maureen Dowd trying to explain conflicting predictions about the fate of the Y chromosome sent me on…
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Contortion, and One Short Woman’s Quest for Longer Lines
Hello friends! I am back after a rather significant bout of thesisitis, and pleased to report that everything went well,…
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Giraffe: A Pain in the Neck for Science?
Did you know that the giraffe’s neck is proof of a god of some sort? Neither did I until a…
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