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a blog about the intersection of science, art, and culture by Jessica Palmer, PhD

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Jessica Palmer has a PhD in Molecular Biology and has been blogging about the intersection of art and biology since 2006.

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Two very BioE-esque images spotted in Portland, Oregon:...

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Fold-out vintage medical books

Category: Biology

Animated Anatomies, a new show at the Perkins Library at Duke University, explores the tradition of fold-out or pop-up paper anatomical diagrams: Animated Anatomies explores the visually stunning and technically complex genre of printed texts and illustrations known as...

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For people who hate talking anatomy while eating. . .

Category: Biology

. . . let the table settings do the talking (and the grossing out) for you! These Consumption Dinnerware plates by Leah Piepgras "are a map of the digestive tract, from mouth to anus:" I'm trying to decide if these...

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This is actually fracking good

Category: Yikes!

I was playing The Fracking Song last night about midnight, and my boyfriend was grooving to it. At the end he asked, "what was that about?" "Uh. . . fracking." "Which kind of fracking?" Yes, we are a BSG...

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Postmortem sleeping beauties

Category: Ephemera

Through the end of May, UMBC's Albin O Kuhn gallery is hosting a large exhibition of postmortem daguerreotypes, death masks, coffin plates, etc. from the collection of Dr. Stanley Burns. Medical ephemera always have an emotional valence, because they...

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A biologist's mother's day

Category: Health

Thanks moms! Slightly more than half of everything we are we owe to you. :) Song by cadamole - late of the St. Patrick's Day song....

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Human Anatomy: A Visual History from the Renaissance to the Digital Age

Category: Book Reviews

vintage eye candy from Vesalius to Schmiedel

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About those unhappy biology students

Category: Biology

Wow - my post about unhappy bio grad students is getting massive traffic. (Hi SlashDotters and StumbleUpon-ers!) Mike the Mad Biologist, my original inspiration, has responded here and here to all the buzz. I pretty much said everything I wanted...

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Myriad Oral Argument Recordings

Category: Biology

The oral arguments in Monday's Myriad appeal are online here. (Scroll down and look for Association for Molecular [Pathology] v. PTO)....

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Tomorrow's Myriad appeal: are genes unpatentable products of nature?

Category: Biology

Tomorrow morning, a three-judge panel of the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit will hear arguments in the appeal of Association for Molecular Pathology v. U.S. Patent and Trademark Office - better known as the Myriad gene patent case.*...

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