Kirk Hartley
A Molecular Version of the Knee Bone is Connected to the Thigh Bone –
Assume some "toxic" event causes the deletion of a gene. Does anything else happen? New research suggests that deletion of gene #1 is...
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Kirk Hartley
- Nov 14, 2013
- 1 min
MRSA Infections Perhaps Conquered – Molecular Knowledge Is Powerful
As the saying goes, knowledge is power. Researchers put knowledge – and creativity – to work to find a new way to stop MRSA infections...
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Kirk Hartley
- Nov 12, 2013
- 2 min
Long-term Studies Will Influence Future Toxic Tort Litigaton
Over the next few decades, toxic tort litigation will be influenced by knowledge arising from long-term ongoing studies that have been in...
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Kirk Hartley
- Nov 6, 2013
- 1 min
The actual arrival of autonomous vehicles: pod-like, self-driving buses.”
A town north of London actually is the process of deploying 100 driverless "pods" for public transit. Marginal Revolution has the...
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Kirk Hartley
- Nov 3, 2013
- 3 min
Examples of New Thinking in Biology
(Image of central dogma of biology and provided by User:Dhorspool [CC-BY-SA-3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0) or GFDL...
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Kirk Hartley
- Oct 21, 2013
- 2 min
Now Arriving: A Lung Cancer Biomarker Blood Test that Can Effectively Distinguish Between Malignant
Now arriving: the next step in early diagnosis of lung cancer. The prior step? Major use of low dose CT scans to find at an early stage...
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Kirk Hartley
- Oct 1, 2013
- 1 min
The Power of Collaboration and Old Records and Tissue – An Easy to Grasp Example of Finding a
Old medical records and tissue are becoming increasingly valuable as tools for finding causes of diseases that are related to mutations....
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Kirk Hartley
- Sep 24, 2013
- 1 min
Dose – The LIne May Be Thin Between OK and Not OK
Except for one moment of outrage, PopTort provides a simple, memorable, teaching blog post quiz about why the line may be thin between an...
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Kirk Hartley
- Sep 24, 2013
- 1 min
The Timing of a Dose Matters – NPR Briefly Covers Epigenetics
Epigenetics is not yet an everyday word. But it’s being discussed more and more often outside of science circles, as illustrated by this...
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Kirk Hartley
- Sep 20, 2013
- 1 min
Benzene Trial Goes Genomic – Now a Genomic Focused Seminar Is on The Horizon
Sometimes it’s good to think about new things, so this week included attending a benzene litigation conference. One lesson learned from...
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Kirk Hartley
- Sep 20, 2013
- 3 min
Science May Yet Win Out Over Politics – Global Warming Is Real, says 4 GOP Leaders of EPA
Science recently picked up some formidable allies as four former GOP leaders of EPA spoke out on climate change. I missed this August 1,...
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Kirk Hartley
- Sep 17, 2013
- 1 min
Free Online Course on Genetics from Udacity and 23andMe
Go here to sign up for a soon to debut free, online course on genetics. The course is aimed at non-experts, and is offered by 23andMe,...
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Kirk Hartley
- Sep 15, 2013
- 3 min
Delivering More Proof of Nanoscale Events Involving Cells
(Super-sensitive nanocrystals enable the micro-structured optical fibre to remotely detect and track the movement of a single...
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Kirk Hartley
- Sep 8, 2013
- 2 min
Drug Delivery Structures Built from DNA – Part of the Process for Curing Diseases
(Images courtesy of McGill University, and provided with press releases.) Nanoscale work is incredible and some of its uses will save...
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Kirk Hartley
- Aug 29, 2013
- 2 min
Stunning New Science – “Mini-brain” Created by Scientists and Stem Cells
Stunning. Using both types of stem cells (embryonic and induced) and a "scaffold and gels, scientists working in Vienna have created a...
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Kirk Hartley
- Aug 27, 2013
- 1 min
Fracking, Earthquakes, and Science
Fracking provides a singular current example of trying to reconcile risks and benefits. The Wall Street Journal reports – briefly – on a...
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Kirk Hartley
- Aug 14, 2013
- 1 min
Archaogenetics
New science continues to bring new words. Museumomics remains a personal favorite. Now we have archaogeneticists who practice...
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Kirk Hartley
- Aug 2, 2013
- 1 min
The Cloned Quarter Horse Litigation – Plaintiffs Succeed on Antitrust Claims
Here’s a striking example of new science bringing out new legal issues. Breeders of cloned quarter horses won an antitrust law suit...
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Kirk Hartley
- Aug 1, 2013
- 1 min
Finding Molecular Changes that Matter – The Exercise Example
Why does exercise help the bodies of many people? We still do not understand it all, but new molecular level studies are starting to...
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Kirk Hartley
- Jul 30, 2013
- 1 min
False Memories – New Evidence – MIT Team Creates False Memories in Mice
Amazing. MIT scientists found a way to find the location of memory, and to test whether they could create a false memory in a mouse. They...
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About Kirk
Since becoming a lawyer in 1983, Kirk’s 35+ years of practice have focused on advising a wide range of corporations, associations, and individuals (as both plaintiffs and defendants) on both tort and commercial law issues centered around “mass torts.”
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