Sci is at SciAm today, talking about a recent paper showing that exercise can change the methylation of your muscle DNA. What does that mean? How could it work? Head over there to find out.
Sci is at SciAm today, talking about a recent paper showing that exercise can change the methylation of your muscle DNA. What does that mean? How could it work? Head over there to find out.
I was alerted by the Neurocritic to a new paper out in PLoS ONE on research blogs and discussion of scientific information. It’s an analysis of researchblogging.org bloggers, who there are, what they blog about, and who is significant. It’s an interesting ‘state of the blogsphere’ type read (though I don’t feel the significance of […]
It’s time to talk about bears again, my friends. We have already learned that, contrary to popular belief, they cannot smell the menstruation (or rather, they probably can, but don’t care): But there is another, more difficult question to answer: are bears safe!??! At first you might be thinking “um, no, they are BEARS. Bears, […]
I realize it’s been a while since EB 2012 ended and I left the not-so-sunny San Diego (at least, it wasn’t sunny at the time). Conferences are always great for the development of ideas. You get new ideas about your research, new directions to go in or troubleshooting things to try. And at EB this […]
Sci is at SciAm blogs today, with a repost on depression, gene therapy, and p11. I’ve got some fabulous science cooking in the lab that needs all of my attention today, but please enjoy the repost and I’ll be back soon!
Over at the Guest Blog, our current guest is my sometimes partner in crime Dr. Zen! He is taking is amazing blogging prowess (srsly I think this dude posts to at least four different blogs at least three times per day. I am in awe) to our guest blog, where he is explaining the rules […]
I don’t know about you, but sometimes, when I hear about all of the scary STDs there are in the world, and all the ways you can get them, I think, you know, I should switch to…FEET. Ah, beautiful feet. Gorgeous sexy feet. Nothing looks better or cleaner when faced with the specter of gonorrhea […]
Over at Sci Am today, I’ve got a post on how high fat and sugar induced obesity in mice may produce depressive-like symptoms. It’s an interesting paper, but as usual, I’m wondering: what is the mechanism?? Head over and check it out.
Welcome to the 15th Edition of the Diversity in Science Carnival, focusing on Imposter Syndrome! I knew that this issue affected a lot of people, but you’ll realize just how many from the unprecedented number of people who have submitted posts! So I hope that here you’ll be able to see just how many people […]
While Sci recovers from the Experimental Biology meeting, I invite you to enjoy this storify, taken as Pascale and I enjoyed an American Physiological Association presentation on…taints. That’s right. ‘Taint balls, ‘Taint anus, it’s the area in between. And there are some new and interesting findings in the taint world, not to mention all the […]