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Project Tycho: Vaccines prevent diseases!
Tycho Brahe, Image from Wikipedia I just heard about a new “big data” project called Project Tycho. They chose the name Tycho in honor of Tycho Brahe who made tons of detailed observations of the stars...
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Fruit flies fight over chicks
Beer – Courtesy of Wikipedia. Fueling male-male aggression for thousands of years. Remember your college days? On a typical college Saturday night, I would head to a local Champaign, IL watering hole...
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Share the Data
Data-sharing is often much easier said than done. In the past, researchers created large and valuable databases which would often languish on the university’s server fading into oblivion after the...
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Mentor Roulette
Throughout my education and career I have been mentored. Sometimes I have chosen those mentors and other times they have been assigned to me. Choosing these people who guide you, stick up for you, and...
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Fiber, not just for your guts!
Soybeans are a great source of dietary fiber. Image courtesy of Wikipedia. Allergies have been on the rise in the last few decades – not just the highly publicized increase in peanut and gluten...
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So THAT’s why you get the munchies…
Chowing down. Image courtesy of Joel Telling under a creative commons license. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ While not the actual title or tag-line on a recent Nature Neuroscience paper,...
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White coats are gross
White coat. Image courtesy of Samir via Wikimedia Commons. For physicians, the white coat that comes with their profession is a badge of honor. At the beginning of medical school, new students receive...
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Better Trials, So Failure Isn’t All Bad
Image courtesy of Zachary Veach The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) is rolling out new rules for clinical trials testing psychiatric drugs or interventions. For years, applications have...
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Reach out and grab some cash
I use twitter primarily to keep up with what’s new and newsworthy in science and science communication. It’s a great tool to quickly catch up on new discoveries or controversies. It also can expose...
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Narcolepsy update!
Last year, I wrote a post about the potential link between autoimmune dysfunction and narcolepsy. Today, a major study published in Science Translational Medicine linking narcolepsy and autoimmunity...
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