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Brain & Behavior
July 6, 2009
A Blog Around The Clock
ClockTutorial #5: Circadian Organization I wrote this post back on February 02, 2005 in order to drive home the point that the circadian clock is not a single organ, but an organ system comprised of all cells in the body linked in a...
July 5, 2009
A Blog Around The Clock
Flirting under Moonlight on a Hot Summer Night, or, The Secret Night-Life of Fruitflies As we mentioned just the other day, studying animal behavior is tough as "animals do whatever they darned please". Thus, making sure that everything is controlled for in an experimental setup is of paramount importance. Furthermore, for the studies to...
A Blog Around The Clock
Clock Tutorial #4: On Methodology I wrote this post back on January 23, 2005. It explains how clock biologists think and how they design their experiments:...
July 4, 2009
A Blog Around The Clock
The Lark-Mouse and the Prometheus-Mouse Two interesting papers came out last week [from the Archives - click on the clock logo to see the original post], both using transgenic mice to ask important questions about circadian organization in mammals. Interestingly, in both cases the gene...
bioephemera
Telegraph: blame the rape victims - science says you can! Wow. . . coming off the Silence is the Enemy rape awareness initiative, it's more depressing than usual to see the Telegraph's latest bad science reporting. Their story implies that rape victims deserve blame for what happens to them: Women...
A Blog Around The Clock
New and Exciting in PLoS this week Just trying to catch up with the publicartions in various PLoS Journals this past week. Here are some interesting titles. As always, you should rate the articles, post notes and comments and send trackbacks when you blog about the...
Neuron Culture
Top Neuron Culture posts from June In case you missed them (or miss them, and want to read again ...)
Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted)
This Grrl is Shopping for Her Perfect Man -- Have You Seen Him? As Venetian Princess coos in this video .. "I don't need a jock, I want a Spock!"
July 3, 2009
A Blog Around The Clock
A Pacemaker is a Network This is going to be a challenging post to write for several reasons. How do I explain that a paper that does not show too much new stuff is actually a seminal paper? How do I condense a 12-page Cell...
The Primate Diaries
Friday Follow: Neurophilosophy Or, Why I Love ScienceBlogs Reason #372: Mo at Neurophilosophy has a fascinating article on the evolutionary origins of the nervous system: THE HUMAN BRAIN is a true marvel of nature. This jelly-like 1.5kg mass inside our skulls, containing hundreds...
Terra Sigillata
The Friday Fermentable: Wine Authorities Spread the Gospel of Roséism This is my kind of religion - a must-see video bound to go viral.
The Scientific Indian
You are synesthetic, I am too, everyone is. Listened to an interview at All In the Mind[link corrected] with David Eagleman, Neuroscientist, novelist. David Eagleman: ...if I were to take a piano and I were to hit the high note and then I would hit the low note...
Neurophilosophy
Evolutionary origins of the nervous system A number of recent studies provide clues to the evolutionary origins of the nervous system
A Blog Around The Clock
ClockTutorial #3b - Whence Clocks? This post about the origin, evolution and adaptive fucntion of biological clocks originated as a paper for a class, in 1999 I believe. I reprinted it here in December 2004, as a third part of a four-part post. Later, I...
Neurotopia
Friday Weird Science: Echidnas like it cold and torpid h yeah, look at that cute lady echidna, so cold, so slow moving...
July 2, 2009
A Blog Around The Clock
Everything Important Cycles Microarrays have been used in the study of circadian expression of mammalian genes since 2002 and the consensus was built from those studies that approximately 15% of all the genes expressed in a cell are expressed in a circadian manner....
DrugMonkey
AstroTurfing the PharmaShill Gambit Sorry, just a linky-lurve but you have to see this. Stephanie Z and a minion or two over at Almost Diamonds are giving hell to operatives of some homeopath supply house over the Zicam/Zinc/anosmia debacle. An example of the antiFDA,...
Cognitive Daily
When are highly-anxious women most anxious? When you least expect it Take a group of 18- and 19-year-old women, college freshmen and sophomores. Then test them to find out who has the most social anxiety: who's most nervous about dealing with other people, particularly in public situations. What would be the...
July 1, 2009
Of Two Minds
Color after image demonstration - Seeing color when there is none. I'm teaching about opponent processes in color vision today and thought I'd share one of my favorite examples. This is how you use the human visual system to turn a black and white photo into color. Try it out:...
The Frontal Cortex
Self-Esteem In the latest issue of In Character, UPenn psychologist Angela Duckworth criticizes the systematic attempt to improve self-esteem in children: Q: Educators for some time now have put a premium on self-esteem. Schools strive to help kids develop self-esteem on...
Neuron Culture
DIY circumcision with nail clippers "This is something we would advise men never to attempt," said a medic.
The Frontal Cortex
Sweet and Salty I've got a thing for things that are sweet and salty. Caramels with sea salt. French fries with plenty of ketchup. Peanut butter and strawberry jelly. Melon with prosciutto. Is there anything better to eat on a hot summer day...
June 30, 2009
Pharyngula
Irwin Neher: Chemistry helps neuroscience: the use of caged compounds and indicator dyes for the study of neurotransmitter release Ah, a solid science talk. It wasn't bad, except that it was very basic—maybe if I were a real journalist instead of a fake journalist I would have appreciated it more, but as it was, it was a nice...
A Blog Around The Clock
New and Exciting in PLoS this week Just because I am galivanting in Lindau does not mean I could not take a look at the brand new papers published in PLoS ONE, PLoS Biology, PLoS Medicine and PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases last night. A few titles caught...
Cognitive Daily
Do babies like color? If so, which ones? New parents can come up with a seemingly endless array of vexing questions about their infants, from the best brand of stroller to the ideal song to sing them to sleep. The questions begin well before the child is born:...
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SB Basics
Avian Flu
The recent swine influenza outbreak has brought the fear of a global pandemic to the forefront of the public consciousness. But before pigs, the suspected carriers of the next pandemic were of the avian species. But what does it mean to have swine or avian influenza and how do they differ from the regular flu? Can you be vaccinated against it? How do these viruses spread from animals to humans? Read the ScienceBlogs posts below to find out!
Effect Measure December 28, 2008
Another flu paper that "unlocks the secret" of 1918 virus virulence
We're learning important things. This evidence strongly suggests that some feature of the polymerase complex allowed the virus to invade the lower respiratory tract and lung tissue of ferrets. Understanding that is a big step forward, a direction different than we have been looking up to now, where much work has gone into the difference between bird and human receptors in the upper and lower respiratory tracts.
Not Exactly Rocket Science June 21, 2008
Round peg, square hole - why our bird flu drugs are a fluke
The world's nations are stockpiling two drugs, Tamiflu and Relenza, to counter the threat of a bird flu pandemic. These drugs work by blocking a key protein that allows the virus to spread. But two years ago, a study revealed the structure of this protein and in doing so, shown that both Tamiflu and Relenza only work through a fortunate fluke.
Effect Measure August 6, 2008
What killed people in the 1918 flu?
Most people in 1918 who got flu didn't die of it and the ones that did probably died mostly from secondary bacterial pneumonias. But now we have to ask what this has to do with today's pandemic planning assumptions.
Aetiology January 26, 2006
Pandemic Influenza Series
Day 1: History of Pandemic Influenza. Day 2: Our adventures with avian flu. Day 3: Challenges to pandemic preparedness. Day 4: 1918 influenza virus reconstructed. Day 5: How ready are we, and what can YOU do?
