So this will hopefully be one of the last of Sci’s Experimental Biology Blogging posts. It’s been a great experience, but OH MAN has it been tiring. But this will be the last, I think. Sci got into blogging Experimental Biology through the interest and very kind advocacy of the communications officer of the American […]
There’s no question that the opinions of society play a very large role in how we perceive ourselves, particularly in terms of physical attractiveness. For example, in our society (Western/USian), women are judged heavily on their body weight. Men get flak for not being muscular enough (though not half as much as women). We all […]
You know, I tried SO hard to come up with a good rhyme…”When your legs give a yank, turn to your spank bank?” “Are your legs restless? Masturbate to redress!” “If your legs still shake, yank or your trouser snake?” I got nothin’. Rhyming has failed me here. But the weird science, it NEVER fails […]
Sci has, of course, returned from #EB2011 (that’s Experimental Biology 2011 for those not on Twitter). She is still in the later stages of recovery. I don’t know about you guys, but conferences always end up with me being ill from something or other. Be that as it may, Experimental Biology Blogging CONTINUES. Though I’ve […]
To blog, or not to blog: that is the question: Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous commenters, Or to take arms against a sea of trolls, And by opposing end them? To blog: to sleep; No more; and by a sleep to say we end The heart-ache […]
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 […]
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 […]
I’m here in DC and ready to get the WILD RUMPUS STARTED. I know I’ve been letting you all know I’m blogging Experimental Biology (EB 2011, #eb2011 for those following along on Twitter), but probably some of you don’t know what that is. It’s a BIG conference of about 13,000 scientists from around the world […]