Last night I had the pleasure and privilege to be at the London Zoo for BioMed Central’s Fifth Annual Research Awards, hobnobbing with Strix uralensis and watching wallabies.
It is with regret we note the death of George William Moore, pathologist and pioneer of medical informatics, and Associate Faculty Member to Grace Kao. His obituary appears in the Baltimore Sun.
Completely shutting down–‘making safe’, you could say–the damaged Fukushima reactors is likely to take years. The work will put dozens, even hundreds, of people at risk of further exposure to radiation. What is the best way to protect these people? A paper in the Lancet, Safety of workers at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant,…
Being happy seems to be important to a lot of people. The pursuit of happiness (if not its attainment) is stated to be an ‘unalienable Right’ in the American Declaration of Independence. But what makes us happy? According to a report in the International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry getting older doesn’t necessarily make you curmudegeonly,…
Good biochemists should be good chefs, yes? After all, cooking–mixing together the right quantities of the right ingredients in the right order and heating (or cooling) at the right temperature for the right amount of time–is just edible chemistry, surely? If you can follow a recipe for extracting DNA from bacteria you should be able…
This week’s news includes a federal court’s decision to continue federal funding of human embryonic stem cell research, an update from the first patient of the first human embryonic stem cells trial of paralysis, ground zero reports of a tornado’s effect on the University of Alabama, a report claiming that chronic diseases have supplanted infectious diseases…
There’s a bit of a holiday mood at F1000 Towers this week. A long Easter weekend with glorious weather (remind me to show you some photos of the vineyard in Surrey we visited), and another long weekend coming up thanks to the conjugation of a couple of fertility rites. What better time, then, to dust…
I work in a downtown area where shops come and go. Some have staying power, and some are just a flash in the pan. A new jewelry shop recently opened up just downstairs from my office. As I walked by the shop, I asked myself, what do they offer that’s of value to me?
How exactly do you mend a broken heart? We’ve been looking at the British Heart Foundation’s ‘Mending Broken Hearts‘ campaign recently, with videos from the legend Desmond Julian, and a BHF-funded Fellow, Paul Riley.
As part of the Philadelphia Science Festival, which is going on in the city of Brotherly Love from April 15-28, Judge John Jones–who delivered a resounding victory to proponents of evolution education in the 2005 Dover, PA trial–will be holding court at the Community College of Philadelphia on Saturday (April 23). If you’re in the…
