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Hey, Did You Know that Walrus are Right-Handed?
So, I am flying out to Cambridge today to learn about frogs for the research that I am going to be doing this summer, and I’ve been a little stressed out this last week what with all the plastic in the...
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Functional telomerase gene therapy in mice fights aging, though sadly...
Telomerase gene therapy using an adeno associated virus vector seems to have extended mouse lifetimes as well as improved health and decay from age related diseases. Telomerase is heavily involved in...
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Primates as Analogies: Interpreting the Fossil Record
The australopithecines were a group of early human ancestors, hominins who wandered around East and Southern Africa (maybe other parts of the continent, too, but we don’t have good fossil evidence of...
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Building Climate Change Predictions into Protected Area Management
Today I’d like to talk about a paper on a subject very close to my own scientific heart: Protected areas and climate change. I am a graduate assistant on a project that is looking at ways to improve a...
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Humans, non-human primates, and SNAKES!
A little more than a year ago, I walked through the rainforest following closely behind a large group of sooty mangabeys. A sharp call rang out, and within minutes, all hundred and twenty animals were...
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Evolution in action, Nebraskan highways select for cliff sparrows with...
Sometimes research gives you answers to questions you didn’t even know you had when it is well designed. In this case researchers in Nebraska looking into the social behavior of cliff swallows, an...
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A very neat new pathway in nerve cells
Vesicular Glycolysis Provides On-Board Energy for Fast Axonal Transport is an elegant paper that was published just recently in Cell. It quite effectively solves a really puzzling aspect of how nerves...
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An exciting and totally novel way to clinically address obesity.
Last year the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center started a Phase I clinical trial for a very interesting peptide based drug on the power of the counterintuitively awesome paper that I’m going to present...
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It Rains Bullshit After Hurricanes
So far we have presented a lot of really cool papers, but today I want to talk about a paper that looks incredibly cool in a whole bunch of different ways in the abstract, introduction, and discussion...
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It turns out that the flu virus is surprisingly bad at making flu virions
In order to successfully infect a cell an influenza virus needs a small collection of proteins that are absolutely essential, and it looks like at least 90% of all individual influenza virions is...
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