Envoronment
March 10, 2010
Collective Imagination
Your daily healthy imagination question: What letter grade would you assign to your personal health? This is the eighth daily question on the Collective Imagination blog. Every day, respond to the question (or another commenter's answer) and you will be eligible to win a custom ScienceBlogs USB drive. We'll announce the previous day's winner in...
Mike the Mad Biologist
JAMA: Vaccinating Kids Protects Unvaccinated Adults Vaccination of children protects unvaccinated adults. We would save thousands of lives, and we don't have to march, skip, run, jump, or pogo stick for a cure. We just have to vaccinate.
White Coat Underground
Dr. Kaiser responds I was pleased to see that Dr. Kaiser responded to post from earlier this week. If you'll recall, Dr. Jon Kaiser is a doctor in California who is promoting a nutritional supplement to help treat HIV disease. I was hoping...
Genetic Future
State of sequencing technology in 2010 Dan Koboldt has a very nice recap of the various sequencing technologies presented at last week's Advances in Genome Biology and Technology meeting. I totally agree with his central point:Something had been bothering me about the sequencing-company presentations this year,...
Respectful Insolence
Jenny McCarthy drives the stupidity to ever higher levels on--where else?--The Huffington Post Way back on May 25, 2005, I first noticed something about a certain political group blog. It was something unsavory, something vile, something pseudoscientific. It was the fetid stench of quackery, but not just any quackery. It was anti-vaccine quackery,...
March 9, 2010
Tomorrow's Table
A Worm Free World a potential breakthrough in the treatments for roundworms that could improve the health of millions of children
Greg Laden's Blog
Feeling Sorry For Myself Therapy: An update on my knee Friends, you already know much of this. People who don't know me, you don't want to read this. This is for the in between people. There will be no discussion of needles, because I'm done with the needles..
Respectful Insolence
erv
Welcome Obesity Panacea! NOW EARN YOUR KEEP! LOL! We finally got Obesity Panacea on ScienceBlogs! YAY! Now. *squints eyes* I gotta question for Travis and Peter as a blogwarming gift :P Whats the deal with BMI? Weve talked about it a lot on SciBlogs, but now weve...
Collective Imagination
Your daily healthy imagination question: What one thing could you do today to improve your personal health? This is the seventh daily question on the Collective Imagination blog. Every day, respond to the question (or another commenter's answer) and you will be eligible to win a custom ScienceBlogs USB drive. We'll announce the previous day's winner in...
A Blog Around The Clock
ScienceOnline2010 - Trust and Critical Thinking (video), Part 3 Saturday, January 16 at 4:40 - 5:45pm C. Trust and Critical Thinking - Stephanie Zvan, PZ Myers, Desiree Schell, Greg Laden, Kirsten Sanford Description: Lay audiences often lack the resources (access to studies, background knowledge of fields and methods)...
Respectful Insolence
Taking a vaccine injury case to the Supreme Court I haven't written much about this before, at least not in this context, but vaccine scares are nothing new, nor is execrably fear mongering journalism about vaccines. Those of you who read Paul Offit's Autism's False Prophets or Arthur Allen's...
March 8, 2010
A Blog Around The Clock
Welcome the newest SciBlings! Go say Hello to Travis Saunders and Peter Janiszewski, the newest bloggers on the Scienceblogs.com network at Obesity Panacea. They cover health, physiology, nutrition and exercise - something we did not have here on the network before, at least not...
DrugMonkey
Exercise Phys Dudes Join Up Go entertain yourself with the Obesity Panacea blog (previously here). If you don't laugh at the Ten Most Annoying Gym Personalities you need to, well, hit the gym. Welcome Peter and Travis!...
Genetic Future
Genetic ancestry testing: people who don't want to know Dan Vorhaus pointed me to this review of the recent PBS series Faces of America. I haven't seen the series myself, but I found this segment of the review hilarious:The element of the last PBS episode I found most intriguing...
Collective Imagination
Your daily healthy imagination question: What kind of health information would you like to see in a mobile app? This is the sixth daily question on the Collective Imagination blog. Every day, respond to the question (or another commenter's answer) and you will be eligible to win a custom ScienceBlogs USB drive. We'll announce the previous day's winner in...
Mike the Mad Biologist
Clarifying Commensals: Thoughts on Kristof's Superbugs Op-Ed Agricultural misuse of antibiotics is a problem. But did it cause the MRSA and ESBL problems?
Respectful Insolence
"Big supplement" lashes out, and John McCain caves in The supplement industry and "health freedom" movement crush an attempt to try to regulate supplement quackery.
Laelaps
Book Review: The Poisoner's Handbook During the 1920's, poisons could be found in abundance in almost any New York apartment. Cyanide, arsenic, lead, carbon monoxide, radium, mercury, methyl alcohol and more; these materials were part of everyday life, especially bootlegged alcohol in the "dry"...
White Coat Underground
A nutritional approach to the treatment of HIV infection---same old woo? I get all sorts of mail. I get mail from whining Scientologists, suffering patients, angry quacks---and I get lots of promotional material. I get letters from publishers wanting me to review books, letters from pseudo-bloggers wanting me to plug their...
Neurotopia
Basics: Guest Post 1: Male Reproductive Anatomy Sci may have hinted that there were guest posts coming up in the near future. After that long series on female reproductive anatomy, Sci thought it would only be fair to let the dudes have some information as well. Unfortunately,...
March 7, 2010
Gene Expression
Finding "cousins" through personal genomics The odds of knowing your cousins: 23andme Part 1: Bizarrely, Jonathan Zittrain turns out to be my cousin -- which is odd because I have known him for some time and he is also very active in the online civil...
Genetic Future
On finding folks you know: 23andMe reveals some unexpected cousins A colleague just pointed me to an entry on Brad Templeton's blog where Templeton reveals some bizarre connections between people he has met as distant cousins via 23andMe's Relative Finder algorithm. Nothing too spooky, but a precursor of things...
Effect Measure
Mock Study Section (more than you ever wanted to know) A grant writer's overkill.
Terra Sigillata
What's the difference between HeLa and HeLa S3 cells?
Part II: The life and careers of Florence Rena Sabin, MD In the second part of the history leading up to the naming of HeLa S3 cells, we discuss the remarkable physician-scientist pioneer. The S3 cells were isolated in the University of Colorado School of Medicine research building named in her honor.
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Synthetic Biology
Some engineers use cranes and steel to make their designs reality, but synthetic biologists engineer using tools on a different scale: DNA and the other molecular components of living cells. Synthetic biology uses cellular systems and structures to produce artificial models based on natural order. Read these posts from the ScienceBlogs archives for more:
Pharyngula May 30, 2007
“Playing God”
The Loom January 31, 2008
"Frankenstein Was Here": Synthetic Biology as Graffiti
Discovering Biology in a Digital World July 2, 2006
Build your own virus
