The Forgotten Intron…
Let’s face it. Exons get all the glory. They’re the star players of the game, the quarterbacks, the offensive line. Meanwhile, introns and other intergenic regions play a more defensive […]
Monthly Archives: March 2013
Reflections on Science & Religion from a Catholic Atheistic Scientist
When I was eight years old I could see angels. Or so I was convinced. I didn’t realize that the “auras” that hovered around people in the shrine during mass […]
Guest Post by Dr. Manuel Casanova: “All about Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation”
This week Science Over a Cuppa hosts our first guest scientist, Dr. Manuel F. Casanova. Manuel has his M.D. in Neurology, with extensive additional training and experience in neuropathology, especially […]
The Flip Side: Life before Vaccines
In last week’s entry, I covered what I see as the poor state of science addressing vaccine-autism risk. While this drew a few opponents in the discussion, for the most […]
Vaccines, Autism, & Epidemiology – A Call for Better Science
Epidemiology is called the ‘basic science of public health,’ but its contribution to this goal is constrained by a preoccupation with supposedly universal exposure-disease relationships that impedes consideration of the […]
