One of the big quandaries surrounding the use of stem cells to repair spinal cord injuries revolves around getting the stem cells to integrate successfully with existing spinal tissue. That problem may now be solved by jello. Well, not the Jell-o kind of jell-o, but something very similar. Researchers have found that adding stem cells
Thanks Shelley. You Are 22% Evil A bit of evil lurks in your heart, but you hide it well. In some ways, you are the most dangerous kind of evil. How Evil Are You?
I’m sorry; I have nothing for Friday Science. I’ve been super busy this week in the lab and I’ve only had a few minutes to just glance at things. So check out some of the things I’ve been glancing at this week. Grapefruit juice has super powers Mice testes contain stem cells Climate changing disasters
I got this from Pink Dog who got it from Shelley. Apparently I have self-asteem issues. My Personal DNA Report
Have you ever tried to smash open a mollusk shell? They’re pretty hard right? Actually the shells are one of the strongest, but lightest materials produced by Mother Nature. Now image what we could build if we could produce a synthetic version of the shells. Researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have managed to imitate
Today is mine and Chrisâs 8th wedding anniversary. Yes, I realize we were cutting it close to the Ides of March, but really we were lucky the wedding even happened. When we decided to get married, we also decided that it was a good idea to do it in Las Vegas. We were poor (even
I’m always leery of doing entries like this one because they tend to attract the crazy fanatics. There’s just been too much going on in evolution research to ignore it anymore. Researchers at the University of Chicago have found over 700 regions in the human genome where strong natural selection has occurred. The changes are
On the first Sunday of every month, my Sangha reads the Five Mindfulness Trainings out loud and serves cookies and Chi Tea. I did not know this because I go so sporadically that I’ve never actually been on one of those first-of-the-month Sundays. At the end of each training the leader asks rhetorically if we
So, we all have heard of the FBI’s most wanted list. Now, the Infectious Disease Society of America (IDSA) has comprised a list of the most deadly microbes. The Superbug hit list was designed in hopes of prioritizing efforts to make antibiotics against these now drug-resistant microbes. Topping the list is the methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus
