Certain regions of the human genome seem to be prone towards copy number variations (CNV), which are large rearrangements of DNA that often occur in the form of deletions and […]
Educational attainment (EA), defined by the number of years of schooling a person has completed, is a complex human trait. However, it is one which seems to be partly under […]
Mast cells are one of the most ancient of immune cells. They’re foundational to the innate immune system, which is the first line of defense to any invading pathogen. However, […]
It’s been quite awhile since my last blog, in part because I was away for a couple weeks traveling through the UK. While my family and I visited a variety […]
The immune system exists as a very complex multiorgan system, composed of numerous sub-branches. The process of inflammation itself can be subdivided into: allergic responses; cytotoxic responses involving mast cells, […]
For any of you who follow this blog regularly, you’ll know that I’m almost without exception a Sunday blogger. Today’s post in fact isn’t a blog at all but an […]
Genetics research into autism has made considerable strides in recent years. While it may seem to most lay people that a lot of funding goes into a field that has […]
Last weekend, my mother and I took a charter bus to Washington DC to attend the now-famous Women’s March. We made our saucy posters, donned our nasty sweatshirts, and boarded […]
It’s happened before. None of us were alive to remember it. Handloom weavers burned mills, textile workers smashed looms, and farmhands broke threshing machines, all to protest the deplorable state […]
When we think of the term, “neurodegeneration,” the classic pictures of Alzheimer’s or Parkinson’s Diseases typically come to mind. We may envision an older person who exhibits memory loss, maybe […]
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Autism from the view of the self taught immunologist, neurobiologist, psychologist, gastroenterologist, geneticist.
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