science
- Thomas Goetz: Sergey Brin’s Search for a Parkinson’s Cure
- As the cost of sequencing drops and research into possible associations increases, whole genome sequencing will become a routine part of medical treatment, just as targeted genetic tests are a routine part of pregnancy today.
- 2010-08-04 to bestof, cure, data, disease, gene, genetics, medicine, science, sequencing by soobrosa
- Louis Menand: Head Case
- Can psychiatry be a science?
- 2010-05-18 to bestof, medicalization, pharma, pharmaceuticals, psychiatry, science by soobrosa
- Gary Wolf: How the Inbred Lab Mouse Helps Reprogram the Human Genome
- Though social eugenics was discredited long ago, we still often think of the genome in quasi-eugenic terms.
- 2010-05-06 to animal testing, bestof, breeding, eugenics, genetics, health, science by soobrosa
- Jonah Lehrer: Accept Defeat - The Neuroscience of Screwing Up
- Experiments rarely tell us what we expect. That's the dirty secret of science.
- 2010-01-17 to bestof, experiment, neuroscience, psychology, science, scientist by soobrosa
- Jerome Groopman: The Colic Conundrum
- The crying that doctors can’t stop.
- 2010-01-12 to bestof, childrearing, children, colic, crying, medicine, parenting, science by soobrosa
- Raymond T. Pierrehumbert: An open letter to Steve Levitt
- May I suggest that if you should happen to need some friendly help next time you take on the topic of climate change, or would like to have a chat about why aerosol geoengineering might not be a cure-all, or just need a critical but informed opponent to b
- 2010-01-02 to bestof, books, climate, climate change, global warming, science by soobrosa
- Janet Maslin: A Quest for Knowledge Inspired by a Devastating Loss
- One in three of us will develop cancer in our lifetimes.
- 2010-01-02 to books, cancer, history, medicine, science, story by soobrosa
- Michael Chorost: Algae and Light Help Injured Mice Walk Again
- Treating Parkinson’s and other brain diseases could be just the beginning. Optogenetics has amazing potential, not just for sending information into the brain but also for extracting it.
- 2009-12-11 to bestof, brain, communication, genetics, medicine, mind, nerves, science by soobrosa
- Amy Wallace: An Epidemic of Fear - How Panicked Parents Skipping Shots Endangers Us All
- The result is that science must somehow prove a negative — that vaccines don’t cause autism — which is not how science typically works.
- 2009-11-21 to autism, bestof, medicine, science, statistics, vaccination, vaccines by soobrosa
- Dennis Overbuy: The Collider, the Particle and a Theory About Fate
- A pair of otherwise distinguished physicists have suggested that the hypothesized Higgs boson, which physicists hope to produce with the collider, might be so abhorrent to nature that its creation would ripple backward through time and stop the collider b
- 2009-10-26 to bestof, funnies, god, oddities, physics, science, time travel by soobrosa
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