I was walking my dog Elvis with my daughter Julie on Sunday and as we have in the past, we came across something very science-y. (note you might enjoy my Scientist in the Garden series.) At the dog park where Elvis likes to play and hunt for rodents in the nearby bushes, there were millions […]
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Cancer is often referred to as the “Big C”. It’s a powerful word with many implications. Another “Big C” word is “Cure”. I believe “Cure” is also a loaded word. I am a cancer survivor and cancer scientist. You can read more about my experience here. Recently I got some more good news on the
מהם תאי גזע? גוף האדם מורכב ממאות סוגי תאים שונים החשובים לתפקודו התקין של הגוף. תאים אלו דואגים שהלב יפעם באופן סדיר ותקין, המוח יוכל לבצע את פעולות החשיבה הסדירות, הכליה תטהר את הדם, תאי העור המתים יוחלפו בחדשים בקצב תקין וכו’. תפקידם של תאי הגזע ליצור את כל אותם תאים כלומר לייצר תאים חדשים.
We live in an ever increasing plasticized world. There are many good things about plastic, but then there are also some very bad things such as the giant whirpools of plastic fragments out in the oceans that are larger than Texas and also some of the chemicals in plastics are dangerous. One particular chemical villain
FDA finally bans poison and carcinogen BPA from baby products Read More »
It’s been a big couple months of headlines in the news for prostate cancer. I’m a prostate cancer survivor and cancer biologist so I spend probably more than my share of time thinking about prostate cancer and from a number of angles. A few days ago I got a test result suggesting I’m still in long-term
Updated: Do Vulcans Get Prostate Cancer and get surgery for it? Read More »
A major scandal has erupted further regarding FDA monitoring of its scientists’ emails as reported by the NY Times. The FDA spied on the emails of its own scientists and other scientists. Some of the emails also involved correspondence with Congress and even the White House. Regardless of one’s position on what the FDA did,
Do you feel frustrated with the current peer review system in science? I have an idea that might help and it involves the revolutionary idea of reviewer accountability. In other words, authors and grant writers in essence review their reviewers. I’ve made this all the easier for you with templates that you can simply and
Transformative idea for peer review: reviewing & grading the reviewers Read More »
A stodgy old scientist once said to me that he was skeptical of scientific social media with its “twitting and the blobs” …..uh, you mean blogs? But maybe he wasn’t so off track in what he said, talking about a blog as “The blob”, reflecting his thinking of blogs as akin to monsters. Is blogging
The Blob versus the blog: arguing how social media is changing science Read More »
I wish I had a T-shirt like the one at right below that I made up. I already hate the Higgs Boson and I’m not even sure it exists. Neither are the scientists who today reported they might have discovered it to much fanfare. Today’s hysteria and hype is based on the reported, kinda maybe sort of
Higgs hysteria & faster-than-light debacle reveal today’s voodoo Physics Read More »