Category Archives: Physiology

Watching football can damage your health

My second instalment from Physiology 2010. At any large scientific meeting, with lots of things on at once, there are lectures that you feel you really have to go to, commonly because they are in your research area. There are … Continue reading

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Conference blogging (possibly) – Physiology 2010 (Updated)

In a moment of absent (weak?) mindedness, I have agreed to blog from a conference – the Physiological Society’s Summer bash, Physiology 2010, starting just about now. This will be a first for me – though I have done conference … Continue reading

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A hundred years ago – the Hill equation

I have been meaning to post this piece for ages, but never seem to find the time to do the necessary re-writes! Since there is now a small lull before I get submerged under the next wave of exam marking, … Continue reading

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Charles Darwin, the physiologists, and the Physiological Society – from the 1870s to the present

Here is the Darwin piece I promised to kick the blog off properly. It started off as a piece for Physiology News, but has been adapted and extended. It isn’t quite finished to my satisfaction, and I am a little … Continue reading

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