A back story. Yesterday’s post covered an important new research arising from work with "HeLa" cells. The new work brings to mind an...

New libraries of molecular knowledge continue to appear as molecular biology races forward. The May 3, 2012 issue of Cell brings a new...

How did we end up generally adopting a 95% confidence level? A post at Empirical Legal Studies explains that the answer lies in a paper: ...

The popular press says that a Pakistani doctor was given a 33 year jail term for telling the CIA where to find Bin Laden. It’s actually...

Throwing away life. That may be the result of failing to preserve umbilical cords and placentas. New studies continue to investigate and...

An example of a local impact from big science and computers. Due to birth problems with a bleeding brain and apnea, seven year old...

Opinio Juris includes multiple posts related to a timely seminar on medical tourism. This topic is going to grow, for many reasons,...

How do genomes change due to environmental forces? A new paper published in the April 5, 2012 issue of Nature sheds some light, and finds...

Our brains do amazing things without conscious direction. For example, specific portions of our brains are programmed to quickly search...

With increasing frequency, researchers are figuring out how and why nature does what it does. A springtime example makes several points...

It’s difficult to create positives from death. But, when a loved one is dying, positives are possible when there is the presence of mind...

Quite an idea – a breast implant that would help reduce the probability of a recurrence of breast cancer. ScienceDaily brings word that...

The opinion in Prometheus continues to frustrate those in the patent bar who think the Federal Circuit deserves deference, for some...

Many know of Gordon Moore thanks to his famous "law" and his role as a founder if Intel, but as I recently learned, there’s much more to...

This NYT article by John Markoff explains part of the story on why we are now sequencing entire genomes for hundreds of dollars, and why...

Epigenetics matter – a lot. It’s chemistry in way – it’s about external factors creating reactions that cause sections of your DNA to do...

Imagine growing hamburgers. No cows. Just meat growing in a lab. Or a meat factory. The vision is real. In fact, the first hamburger is...

Epigenetics and toxins are subjects of ever-increasing research and findings demonstrating harms to offspring, especially when a fetus is...

The front page of the NYT this morning is dominated by a mosaic picture of 60 people who form a chain of 60 lives and 30 kidney...

People sometimes take science in the wrong direction. In that vein, consider a blog post from Jennifer K. Wagner at the University of...