Sci’s not going to lie, she’s a HUGE fan of caffeine (I mean, duh) And I remembered only too well many of the things that ERV has said previously about how she uses caffeine before her workouts, to give her the extra boost and improve her workout. So when I saw this abstract on the […]
The latest study out of Brian Wansink’s lab, the man who wrote the book “Mindless Eating”, and whose laboratory focuses on the psychology of how we relate to our food, is already going to have something of a halo. Wansink is a specialist in the field and is very well known for many of his […]
Heart failure and heart attacks (otherwise known as myocardial infarction) are some seriously scary problems. Myocardial infarction in particular seems to strike without warning, leading either to death or to months of recovery and reduced quality of life. So not only are scientists working on what can help people recovering from heart attacks or living […]
Cancer is one of those things that people like to talk about “curing”, but the reality is always much more complicated than that. There are many different kinds of cancer, and each type (colon, prostate, breast, etc) can have many different subtypes. It seems that we may never come up with an approach that will […]
While diabetes is no longer a death sentence (thanks to the development of insulin therapies), diabetics are still subject to a large host of health problems as a result of their condition. One of these issues is the issue of diabetic nephropathy, damage that occurs to the kidneys. This is your kidney: (Via wikipedia) Kidneys […]
We all know how devastating a heart attack (known to science as a myocardial infarction or MI) can be. Luckily, science has made great strides, and many people now survive heart attacks and live for many years (though the death rate is still very high). But now that people are SURVIVING heart attacks, the quality […]
We have all heard about the problems that can occur when people are exposed to drugs of various kinds as adolescents. The media abounds with stories of “pharming parties”, drinking teens, and stories of lives gone wrong. Adolescence is a very tricky period of life. Teens are thought to be at more risk to suffer […]
I’m sure many of you are probably reading this while wearing some kind of corrective lenses. Some of you might be wearing some cool hipster glasses, but many of you are probably wearing contacts. And as you might know, wearing contacts can be a dangerous sport. Putting them in incorrectly can cause you to damage […]
People often complain to their friends when others don’t “get” something they are trying to say “they can’t get it through their thick skulls”. Words like “boneheaded” and “numbskull” are things we all recognize. But it might surprise you to realize that our skulls are, on average…very thin. At least compared to our ancestors. In […]
I have to say that I have learned a HUGE number of things in the last 12 hours or so, as I frantically interviewed scientists and trainees about their work. Sure, Sci knows her own fair bit about things like neuroscience, but blogging Experimental Biology gives me the opportunity to get WAY outside of my […]