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 […]
Cocaine, and other drugs of abuse, are difficult things to predict. We know to some extent what their initial effects on the brain are, how they act, and some of the things that we can do. But what we don’t know, is who will become addicted to them. It is estimated right now that 15{9f43b4361d9a125bc126dd2a2d1949be02545ec69880430bc4fed2272fd72da3} […]
Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the United States for both men and women, but in women in particular the disease often goes undetected. Finding ways to detect symptoms of heart disease in women can help us detect signs and risk factors early and help prevent deaths and increase the quality and […]
[Alice:] ‘How would you like to live in Looking-glass House, Kitty? I wonder if they’d give you milk in there? Perhaps Looking-glass milk isn’t good to drink—’ -Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There, by Lewis Carroll. When I was looking through the Abstracts for this year’s Experimental Biology meeting, I stopped immediately […]