Past or present?
Mar 15th 2008nerd alert
One of the odder ideas associated with evolutionary theory is the notion that it should be used to direct and inform
Dino-brand tissues, twice as soft!
Mar 28th 2005nerd alert
For those who haven’t seen it yet, apparently they’ve found out that dinosaur bones (most notably a T. rex) may contain soft tissue: Removal of the mineral phase reveals transparent, flexible, hollow blood vessels containing small round microstructures that can be expressed from the vessels into solution. Some regions of the demineralized bone matrix are [...]
Schedules gone awry
Jan 25th 2005General
The university’s bone center had themselves a nice little symposium the other day… strictly “local”, various doctors and faculty from the medical and dental schools coming together to present their work to each other. And one group of out-of-depth chemists. I have no idea how the talks went in the morning, except that all four [...]
Sidewalk diagnostics?
Dec 24th 2004nerd alert
“Early Success Using Saliva to Detect Oral Cancer” (on ScienceBlog, original report at NIH). Saliva contains
Having ears, they hear not
Oct 18th 2004General
Alan Leshner (president of the AAAS) writes in Science (Oct. 8 2004) about the recent reports that the US is losing its global preeminence in science “production”:
Keep it Simple
Jul 26th 2004laughter & nerd alert
I never thought I’d be bored enough to flip through back issues of Laser Focus World, but I reached that point