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Warning…
…this link is kinda gross (nothing graphic, just the concept), possibly NSFW, and opens straight into a video. From the same friend who sent me this, I have just learned that a company in Florida is offering to extract and … Continue reading
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How to cushion a back-handed slap
I’m currently sacrificing some of my usual posting time in order to accommodate an insanely busy schedule, so today’s paper is just a short medical case-study. It’s no less interesting for that though – in fact I’ve been meaning to … Continue reading
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HERVs and Multiple Sclerosis, part 2
Well, after a short period of distraction, I have just finished reading the new paper from Christopher Power’s lab at the University of Alberta. This study follows on from an earlier paper that suggested a causal link between the expression … Continue reading
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HERVs and Multiple Sclerosis, part 1
I have a new paper sitting on my desk that I plan to summarise in the near future. The study investigates the relationship between syncytin, a human endogenous retroviral protein, and MS. I actually wrote a review of an earlier … Continue reading
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Vulcans! In Vancouver!
Sorry, couldn’t resist. I don’t have access to The Lancet – does anyone have a subscription? Were there photos in the original paper? _____________________________________________ Update: no photos. How disappointing. Thanks anyway Factician for sending the paper!
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On the Origin of Tumours by Means of Natural Selection
I had an interesting conversation with a medical doctor this week. Granted, I’d much rather he’d chosen not to discuss cancer stem cells while removing a suspicious mole from my arm, but these things often seem to happen to me … Continue reading
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