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• July 29, 2010

• The Pump Handle

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  Diane Lillicrap on Crane Safety If you've got four minutes, watch Diane Lillicrap explain the importance of OSHA's new crane rule.

• Genetic Future

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  Protecting consumers from their own genetic data will come at a cost Investigations launched by the FDA and US Congress have potentially set the stage for a large-scale regulatory crackdown on the embryonic direct-to-consumer genetic testing industry. Such a move would be premature, and would do more harm than good to consumers. The industry needs to change, but a more careful, measured approach based on increasing the transparency of genetic tests is the best way forward.

• Respectful Insolence

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  A science section for the Huffington Post? More like a pseudoscience section! (2010 edition) Funny how everything old is new again, isn't it? Yes, if there's one thing I've learned over nearly six years of blogging, it's that, sooner or later, everything is recycled, and I do mean everything. At least, that was the...

• Respectful Insolence

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  Dr. Snyderman, please be more careful... Nancy Snyderman isn't helping. At least, she wasn't helping yesterday. Don't get me wrong. I like the fact that NBC's Chief Medical Editor Dr. Nancy Snyderman is a staunch defender of vaccination. She's one of the rare talking head doctors...

• July 28, 2010

• On Becoming a Domestic and Laboratory Goddess

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  How Physiology was Cooler 40 Years Ago A friend of mine sent me the following video today. It is footage of renowned physiologist John Severinghaus talking about the White Mountain Research Station. As a bit of background, John Severinghaus is a big deal in physiology. If you...

• Greg Laden's Blog

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  The bio-future of joint replacement Arthritis and injury grind down millions of joints, but few get the best remedy -- real biological tissue. Kevin Stone shows a treatment that could sidestep the high costs and donor shortfall of human-to-human transplants with a novel use of animal tissue....

• Greg Laden's Blog

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  Whooping cough, in case you were not aware... Whooping cough appears to be back, with a vengeance. It is now an epidemic in California. You need to know that it is serious business....

• The Pump Handle

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  OSHA Publishes Long-Awaited Crane Rule After several years of delay, OSHA has finally published a final rule on crane and derrick safety in construction. For one determined mother, it must be a bittersweet day.

• Aetiology

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  Dengue in Florida At his new digs, PalMD discusses recent news revealing the presence of dengue virus in the Florida Keys--the first appearance in the state in almost 75 years. Dengue is a mosquito-borne virus that can cause serious disease, including a hemorrhagic...

• erv

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  Green our vaccines! Part II With a name like 'MucoRice', you know its gotta be green! NOMNOMNOM!

• Respectful Insolence

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  File under, "Boy, do I think you've gotten the wrong person" One of the odd things about blogging is the e-mail. True, I don't get anything near the quantity, quality, or sheer weirdness of the e-mail that, for example, PZ Myers, gets, but I do get my share. Some of it's...

• July 27, 2010

• Framing Science

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  On Climate Change, the Public May Not Support Changing Their Own Diet, But Would They Support Programs to Change Society's Diet? Valuable food for thought from a reader of our BMC Public Health study....

• Mike the Mad Biologist

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  Genetic Testing, Antibiotic Resistance, and CLSI Direct-to-customer genetic testing can learn from antibiotic susceptibility testing.

• Greg Laden's Blog

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  Faith Healing is Child Abuse Or, more accurately, it is the rubber-meets the road part of the broader abuse known as religion....

• Respectful Insolence

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  A nonsensical attack on Stephen Barrett About three weeks ago, fresh after having experienced my own attack by anti-vaccine activists who tried to get me fired, I noticed that Doctors Data was doing what cranks and crank organizations can't resist doing when they face scientific criticism,...

• DrugMonkey

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  Why Pain Research Matters a new information campaign from juniorprof's blog.

• The Weizmann Wave

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  Sniff Once for "Yes": New Neurobiology Papers Even severely paralyzed people on respirators can do it: They can sniff. That is, they can at least partially control the movement of air through their nostrils. And if they can sniff, they can use this action to write on...

• Respectful Insolence

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  The Tribune notices that Haley's yanked OSR#1 from the market On Friday, I noted an e-mail circulating around the Internet in which disgraced University of Kentucky chemist and card-carrying general in the mercury militia, Boyd Haley, announced that he was suspending sales of his industrial chelator turned "antioxidant dietary supplement"...

• July 26, 2010

• erv

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  Beta Globin and Junk ERV LTRs all up in ur hemoglobin gene cluster. Screwin with ur transcription.

• Respectful Insolence

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  Cancer Treatment Centers of America, naturopathy, and "naturopathic oncology" f there's one aspect of so-called "alternative medicine" and "complementary and alternative medicine" (CAM) is that its practitioners tout as being a huge advantage over what they often refer to sneeringly as "conventional" or "scientific" medicine is that -- or so its practitioners claim -- alt-med treats the "whole patient," that it's "wholistic" in a way that the evil reductionist "Western" science-based medicine can't be

• July 24, 2010

• On Becoming a Domestic and Laboratory Goddess

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  Fantastic Geek T-Shirts I just found the most incredible geek t-shirts while tooling around on this shop at Etsy. Dr. Isis does like a good geeky t-shirt. First, this delightful t-shirt with this adorable design: And, this one with a more complete diagram...

• DrugMonkey

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  The media coverage of the MDMA Clinical trial result stinks I am disappointed in the mainstream, and not so mainstream, media coverage of the Mithoefer et al, 2010 paper on MDMA-assisted therapy for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. I had been holding off reading any of it because I suspected it might...

• July 23, 2010

• DrugMonkey

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  MDMA for PTSD: The first peer-reviewed clinical trial report Did it work?

• Respectful Insolence

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  Joe Mercola's shampoo woo Even after having been at this skeptical medical blogging game for nearly six years, every so often I still come across woo about which I had been previously unaware. It's hard to believe, but it's true. In fact, I'm beginning...

• Mike the Mad Biologist

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  Rent Extraction + For-Profit Healthcare = Sepsis Thanks to GPOs, we are getting worse healthcare at higher costs.

Synthetic Biology

Some engineers use cranes and steel to make their designs reality, but synthetic biologists engineer using tools on a different scale: DNA and the other molecular components of living cells. Synthetic biology uses cellular systems and structures to produce artificial models based on natural order. Read these posts from the ScienceBlogs archives for more:

Pharyngula May 30, 2007

“Playing God”

The Loom January 31, 2008

"Frankenstein Was Here": Synthetic Biology as Graffiti

Discovering Biology in a Digital World July 2, 2006

Build your own virus