Dinosaur soft tissue--just bacterial biofilm?
Category: General biology
One of the coolest discoveries in recent years may turn out to be just contamination...
Posted by Tara C. Smith at 10:35 AM • 17 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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Tara C. Smith is an Assistant Professor of Epidemiology. Her research involves a number of pathogens at the animal-human nexus. She also writes for The Panda's Thumb and previously for WIRED SCIENCE's Correlations. Please note the views expressed on this site are Dr. Smith's alone and may not be representative of the groups mentioned above.
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Infectious Disease Series
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July 29, 2008
Helicobacter pylori: an introduction
Category: Cancer epidemiology
Helicobacter pylori is, by bacteriological standards, a relative newcomer to medicine. Although its pathogenesis has been studied for only about the past 20 years, there are reports from as far back as the late 19th century of small, helical...
Posted by Tara C. Smith at 1:15 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
July 28, 2008
Sex in Iowa, 2009
Category: Conferences and meetings
Flooding be damned...there will be sex in Iowa next year.
Posted by Tara C. Smith at 5:40 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
July 25, 2008
For the jump haters...
Category: Housekeeping
Thomas asks in the comments: "More after the jump..." WTF? Why must people insist on using this trite, meaningless phrase? Don't they know it immediately makes people hate them for using it? I'm pretty sure people know how to scroll...
Posted by Tara C. Smith at 9:45 PM • 24 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Field work 101...a crash course for my summer students
Category: General Epidemiology
Students + swabs + pigs = teh fun.
Posted by Tara C. Smith at 11:00 AM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
July 23, 2008
Janet blogs her mammogram
Category: Public health
So it's not quite a colonoscopy on live TV, but Janet's done the public health world a favor and blogged her mammogram. However, one commenter notes: How about a discussion of the ethics of this particular screening method since it's...
Posted by Tara C. Smith at 12:55 PM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Peppered with Salmonella?
Category: General Epidemiology
Will the recent break crack the case?
Posted by Tara C. Smith at 8:30 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
July 16, 2008
In the field...
Category: Misc.
Back out swabbing today (noses this time, not asses). Heading out with 3 grad students who've never done field work before, so should be a fun day. Meanwhile, just got another manuscript submitted last night; that makes four currently under...
Posted by Tara C. Smith at 8:30 AM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
July 15, 2008
"Sizzle" tries, but fizzles
Category: Science education
Filmmaker, scientist, and Scienceblogger Randy Olson releases a new documentary...sort of.
Posted by Tara C. Smith at 5:00 AM • 18 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
July 14, 2008
How much does a flood cost a city?
Category: Iowa/area news
Answer: a metric fuckton.
Posted by Tara C. Smith at 8:00 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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