But let your communication be Yea, yea; Nay, nay: for whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil

Sponsor me too, please

Send funds directly. Do not use Ebay!

screenshot1

Monday, September 28th

evo-devo-dis

I am curently working on a new lecture series on that topic – having a gut feeling that the evolutionary history will explain how and why we get diseases. Some German magazines (“Fehlkonstruktion Mensch” DER SPIEGEL 40/2009) even write about that topic quoting a forthcoming book of Ganten / Deichmann / Spahl). I will rely, however, mostly on (Show me more…)

Sunday, September 27th

Wiesn 2009

All scientists are currently at the Wiesn… (not to mention all the alternatives in Bavaria: Gillamos, Barthelmarkt, Volksfest Straubing, Karpfhammer Fest, … (Show me more…)

Thursday, September 24th

Collegium logicum

was die Welt zusammen hält… (Show me more…)

Tuesday, September 22nd

Sei doch in sich selbst vergnügt

Reading what FAZ’ Frank Schirrmacher writes in his new book about loosing control over his brain “Mein Kopf kommt nicht mehr mit” (“My head lost me”) (Show me more…)

Tuesday, September 22nd

Lets not call it “gene-environment-interaction” anymore

(reminescence)
Gene-environment-interaction is a large bubble in complex disease research area with a label that is itself questionable. Genes do not interact with the environment (or only indirectly); the environment does not interact with genes (situations like epigenetic modification or induction of mutations are at least not meant here).
What is being meant by “gene-environment-interaction”, could be described as “genetically conditioned environmental influence” (GCEI) but not as GxE interaction… BTW is there any online list of GCEIs?

Saturday, September 19th
Next Page »