Apparently, there is a school in Argentina where you won’t get your face hoof-murdered right the hell off [immediately?] for doing this stuff.
Otherwise;… Wow. I got nuthin’…
–Okay, other than Sarah Jessica Parker…
The Failed Cognitive Decline Study -That You Should Pay Attention To Anyway
So there was this study on diseases that got published for some mad reason in-spite of the fact it didn’t work.
And that is one of the best. mistakes. ever.
So: they tried to say Herpes causes cognitive decline in people as they age, but the thunderous statement eventually came out in the results that [and I quote],
“IB was not associated with cognitive decline over time.”,
and the even sneakier one,…
Read More >Incentives Can Improve Weight Loss Success
Having trouble losing weight?
Psych yourself out and give yourself some tangible incentives.
-Or at least that’s what a new study conducted by The Mayo Clinic would suggest.
In two groups tested, those that were incentivized with both Immediate Gain AND Immediate Loss of money for good and bad performance, respectively,
And then further incentivized with the chance at a larger financial gain…
Read More >Klari Reis’ Petri Dish-Inspired Art Looks Beautiful And Biohazard-y
Ok, so technically it’s not quite as cool as color-tagged bacteria manipulated via lazors and EMFs to create a microbial generative art,
But check out Klari Reis’ culture-inspired petri dish art at the links anyway.
Pretty Neat!…
Read More >Bravo Dr. CatScan! Radiologist Replicates Rare Violin
By some happy accident, a professional radiologist happened to also be a violin player.
And for some odd reason, he had his instrument with him one night when he was called in to do a scan.
So after the patient was finished, he looked over at it and thought it might make an interesting subject also.
What he saw surpised him, especially since he’d been trained to notice very small changes in anatomy.
He noticed that the actual architecture of the instrument varied wildly from his previously-simplistic image of it.
By a Third happy accident…
Read More >Scientists Crack The Rosacea Code. Hint: It’s “Dune” On Your Face.
RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
RRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!…
Fido Gets A Bone -Replacement
Whiskey The Dog is a four-legged test-pilot for the future of skeletal biotech.
He’d gotten sick and needed some work on his jaw.
But rather than just go the standard route where things never quite return to normal, Drs. Huey, Arzi and Verstraete at UC Davis came up with a new experiment to try on Whiskey and 7 of his closest friends.
Using some titanium brackets, a hard-sponge-bone-scaffold and special proteins, they were able to fill in a full 2-inch-long gap in his jaw.
Within 3 months…
Read More >Science Hubris Debunked. Junk DNA Actually Not Junk
Scientists had previously assumed only 23,000, or ~2%, of our approximately 3 Billion genes are functional at all,
Because of their active involvement in protein synthesis.
-Which drew the appropriate snort of derision from one Dr. Charles Xavier.
Well the ENCODE project just blew that number right out of the water.
It’s looking more like 80% of the genome is involved in one way or another, especially in a supervisory role. Some of the genes may not be coding proteins themselves directly, but…
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