It doesn’t seem that you can go a day or two without hearing about the latest in the fight on Ebola, and by all means it is a fairly horrible virus with a obscenely high mortality rate. But what if there was something out there which could instantly turn your diet on its head? Enter […]
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Biology Thought Of The Day: Apoptosis
As I complete another journey around the sun, I give a brief pause to think that what I was a year ago has likely died off and but a distant memory. But never fear, this is not going to turn into the “philosophy thought of the day,” I really don’t have the patience for that. […]
Biology Thought Of The Day: World Cup Bonus!
So there is a World Cup story about a Brazilian family who has 12 fingers (6 on each hand) spreading cheer, bringing luck, etc… The title of many articles about it read something like “odd” and “rare genetic order”.However, I am not sure why we consider it this way. Polydactylism is actually a genetically dominant […]