I am quoting from a PLoS one press release of brain’s ‘Hate Circuit’ identified:
People who view pictures of someone they hate display activity in distinct areas of the brain that, together, may be thought of as a ‘hate circuit’, according to new research by scientists at UCL (University College London). Continue reading People know their assassins
Blood has now also an account on the vitamin hypothesis.
Following some earlier descriptions in Reed 1932, Selye 1962, Wjst 1999 and Wieringa 2008, the discovery frequency seems to increase – a good sign for some progress. Bischoff writes about vitamin A where we have only some limited evidence.
Here is the abstract of another pro D3 article by Gilchrest in the AJCN with a few comments by me (notJuan Carlos) Continue reading Porque no te callas?
Just recently I came across a site (but can’t rememeber the URL) – basically saying that this is not a blog but just a few notes, how and why I did something to convince me at a later time of its justification. Yea, yea.
I had already a thread here about asthma and iatrogenic factors last month including estrogens, vaccines, antibiotics, vitamin D, paracetamol, and Caesarean section. There may be even another kid on the block: folate. At least in mice in utero supplementation with methyl donors enhances allergic airway disease Continue reading Asthma: a iatrogenic disease cont’d
Local newspapers just report a suicide – where the corpse had to be identified in the forensic department. Skin cells turned out to be male, blood cells to be female. The solution to this paradox was quite simple Continue reading A man with a female DNA
We already discussed here “how doctors think?k” while a new essay in the Lancet now even asks “Can doctors think“?
Disease can be recognised by the doctor and the patient (mumps), by the doctor but not the patient (schizophrenia), by some doctors but not others (social phobia), by doctors in some times but not others (melancholy …), and by doctors in some places but not others (embedded incisor tooth because an ancestor’s ghost is angry).
marvelous, yea, yea.
I am currently working on a literature survey on the genetics of ageing when I came across a series of nice monographs at the Max Planck Institute in Rostock.
… the Deluge swept away the pluricentenarians. Ernest (1938) mentioned that the semi-divine persons of the Hindu Sagas lived hundred of thousands of years, and that on average each of ten rulers of Ancient Babylon lived about 43,000 years. Continue reading Would you like to be a centenarian?
A small luxurious law here in Germany – we may further offer limited documents to limited participants according to Heise news Continue reading Intranet exception
After a long time (to be exact: 27 years of Microsoft and 12 years of Linux use) I decided to switch to a Macbook Air. That may be an aesthetic decision (as buying an A4, a Nomos, a Bose or whatelse) :-) but may be heavily influenced of my obsession for lightweight and durable equipment. Continue reading Alt – Command – Escape
A scintillatingly witty reply to one of my recent letters say that Continue reading Münchhausen Trilemma
As our government now even pays us to write applications for European collaborations instead of putting this money directly into grants – here comes another quick post on what a Nobel says:
There is a notion favored by some that individual scientists need to be corralled to work together under a more rigid, directed framework to solve important problems. We disagree. Real innovation comes from the bottom up, and good science policy requires promoting the free market of ideas rather than central planning.
BTW the postdog is sitting at the Kornberg site.
“Endotyping asthma” is a thoughtful review of the complex risk factors and mechanisms involved in asthma pathogenesis. It marks a new direction – away from Th2 immunity towards a bunch of novel disease pathways. The author also touches briefly asthma candidate genes, grouping them into 7 areas Continue reading Endotyping asthma
I have no idea how 23andme got its name but the business model of this company seems to rely on a rather haploid view of the world.
I had the pleasure this weekend to listen to a talk by Joanna Mountain(senior research director at 23andMe, the company that was founded by Googles Sergey Brin‘ s wife Anne Wojcicki). For whatever reasons Brin Continue reading 46andyou
Truthiness was the 2005 neologism in the large country somewhere over/under our horizon (depending on what horizon you are looking). Continue reading Truthiness in science
