What are the sins of scientists? It’s not all that bad in the grant scheme of sins. Still, some scientists do really rotten things, often to each other, a topic I’m exploring in a seven part series on what I call scientific sinning. I started my series on the sins of scientists a few weeks […]
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LinkedIn is a professional social networking website. Most of you probably know it and are probably members. I have liked LinkedIn, but was so disappointed to find out that they regularly engage in censorship. Really? Yep, read on. Many people find it a very valuable resource for networking, but it also is supposed to serve
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It is currently legal for the federal government in the U.S. to fund human embryonic stem cell (hESC) research. However, that funding is in serious jeopardy. Someone today described it to me as “hanging by a thread”. A 3-judge panel of the D.C. Circuit Court is currently holding arguments on whether such funding should be
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The leading cause of death in America and many other countries of the world is cardiovascular disease (CVD) including heart attacks and strokes. In fact, CVD kills and disables more people than most often top killers combined including cancer. The myth that CVD is a “man’s disease” only makes the situation worse as in reality CVD
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Τι είναι τα βλαστοκύτταρα; Greek. Τι είναι τα βλαστοκύτταρα; Το ανθρώπινο σώμα περιέχει εκατοντάδες διαφορετικά είδη κυττάρων που είναι απαραίτητα για την καθημερινή μας υγεία. Τα κύτταρα αυτά είναι υπεύθυνα για διάφορες βασικές λειτουργίες, όπως το να κάνουν την καρδιά μας να χτυπά, τον εγκέφαλό μας να σκέφτεται, τα νεφρά μας να καθαρίζουν το αίμα,
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Humans have big brains, right? In fact, they are downright supersized. But is that always such a good thing? As it turns out, no. Size matters, but bigger is not always better for brains at least. When I was in high school, my biology teacher had us do the requisite frog dissection and offered extra
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Below is the Vatican letter that would seem to be an unequivocal slap in the face to pro-life extremists and you can find it on the web too here. For whole story of how the Vatican gives these groups like Family Research Council “no credibility whatsoever” read here.
Update: Vatican letter diss’ing pro-life extremists is available. Read More »
Does the Vatican view the American pro-lifers as a bunch of wacky extremists? An article today certainly suggest this. What’s going on? The Vatican, Catholics more generally, and “pro-lifers”, as designated by the Catholic website CatholicCulture.org are still apparently very much at odds over a now cancelled Vatican conference on stem cells that would have included
Why aren’t there are super pygmy vertebrates? For most vertebrate animals, their early embryonic development unfolds in extremely congruent fashions. Embryo growth is stem cell-dependent and in large part, despite different gestational periods, the molecular and cellular machinery that controls vertebrate development is almost perfectly conserved. Yet at maturity vertebrates end up with a range
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I am currently researching an article on the “discovery” of stem cells and the earliest stem cell research. Stay tuned for that. As I’ve been educating myself on the early history of stem cells I became familiar with a scientist that I had not previously heard of during my career who played a key role
Dr. Florence Sabin, Great American Scientist and Trailblazer for Women in Science Read More »