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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...
The Primate Diaries
The Politics of Human Nature Human nature is one of those concepts that, like "common sense", everyone knows what you mean but no one knows how it's defined. Ironically, the most insistent proponents of human nature are often those who have benefited from the status...
Laelaps
Book Review: The Paleobiological Revolution On the 31st of May, 1984, the late evolutionary theorist John Maynard Smith appraised the field of paleontology in the journal Nature. The report was a critical summary of a series of lectures Stephen Jay Gould had given at...
A Blog Around The Clock
ScienceOnline'09: Interview with GrrrlScientist The series of interviews with some of the participants of the 2008 Science Blogging Conference was quite popular, so I decided to do the same thing again this year, posting interviews with some of the people who attended ScienceOnline'09 back...
Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted)
Today's Mystery Bird for you to Identify Here's today's mystery bird for you to identify, thanks to a talented and generous photographer!
Neurophilosophy
Evolutionary origins of the nervous system A number of recent studies provide clues to the evolutionary origins of the nervous system
Laelaps
Photo of the Day #629: Red panda A sleepy red panda (Ailurus fulgens), photographed at the Central Park Zoo....
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...
Pharyngula
Friday Cephalopod: This is how you suck face Sepia officinalis Figure from Cephalopods: A World Guide (amzn/b&n/abe/pwll), by Mark Norman....
Starts With A Bang
Could we Garden on Mars? Earlier this week, the most obvious scientific news in recent memory was reported: there's Uranium on the Moon. This has been, pretty much, a slam-dunk since Apollo 11. Why? Because we've brought moonrocks back to Earth, and we've analyzed them...
Neurotopia
Friday Weird Science: Echidnas like it cold and torpid h yeah, look at that cute lady echidna, so cold, so slow moving...
A Blog Around The Clock
Banjo, Clancy and Matilda I am running to the Lindau Harbor for the last day's trip and will be offline for the next 12 or so hours. So I don't have time for a long post right now about this cool new dinosaur paper...
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....
Laelaps
Insufferably cute clouded leopard cubs A pair of clouded leopard cubs born in Smithsonian National Zoo facilities just a few months ago, via NPR....
Greg Laden's Blog
Two Dinosaur Books for the Kiddies Children's book review
The Primate Diaries
The Struggle for Coexistence Individuals, Systems and the Emergence of Cooperation in Bacterial Biofilms Join, or Die. Benjamin Franklin / Pennsylvania Gazette (via Wikimedia Commons) When the celebrated author and rabble-rouser Edward Abbey famously stated, "Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology...
On Becoming a Domestic and Laboratory Goddess
Naughty Ads and Why I'm on Hiatus I had planned only to write about how blogging can hurt your career, but I think there is something else I need to address first. Other Sciblings have already written about it and a few of you have sent me...
Not Exactly Rocket Science
Ferreting out swine flu - virus causes slightly more severe disease than seasonal flu According to two studies on ferrets, swine flu causes slightly more severe disease than seasonal flu, infecting the gut and lungs to a much greater extent. However, the two disagree on how transmissible it is.
Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted)
Helsinki Daisy, 1 Here's a picture for you -- hot off the presses! -- from astonishingly sunny and magically beautiful Helsinki, Finland
Greg Laden's Blog
Biology Never Was The Same: Mark Borrello Everyone knows that history repeats itself. Or, at least, as per Samuel Clemens, if history does not repeat itself, at least it rhymes.
Not Exactly Rocket Science
Climate change and the mystery of the shrinking sheep The sheep on the Isle of Soay in Scotland have been shrinking over the last two decades. While natural selection favours larger sheep (whose odds of survival are higher), it has been overwhelmed by the effects of climate change, which have led to ever-smaller generations.
Pharyngula
Sewer blobs of North Carolina Everyone is sending me this video of a strange pulsing blob found in a North Carolina sewer inspection. It is officially creepy and disgusting, and someone from the SciFi channel is racing to make creature feature about it right now,...
Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted)
Today's Mystery Bird for you to Identify Here's a cute picture of a bird for you to identify, thanks to one of my friends at the Beagle Project
A Blog Around The Clock
ClockTutorial #3a - Clock Evolution This post, originally published on January 16, 2005, was modified from one of my written prelims questions from early 2000....
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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?
