Animal Flowers & the Natural History of Science
I recently purchased a print off of eBay taken from the 1st American edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica, printed in 1797. Having been brushing up on my natural history over […]
Author Archives: Emily Casanova
Development of the Corpus Callosum & Its Relationship to Autism
For those who are unfamiliar, the corpus callosum is a large bundle of communicative fibers that connects the two cerebral hemispheres, allowing crosstalk between them. Below are some DTI images […]
Is Epigenetic Inheritance Actually “Genetic”?
A new study published late last month in Genome Biology entitled, “Contribution of genetic variation to transgenerational inheritance of DNA methylation” reported on what has been a controversial topic for […]
Translation Regulation in Autism: A Lesson from Fragile X
A few years ago, researchers reported that the Fragile X Mental Retardation (FMRP) pathway helps to regulate expression or activity of 93 genes linked with idiopathic autism [1, 2]. FMRP, […]
International Meeting for Autism Research (IMFAR) 2014
From left to right: Ami Klin, Laura Klinger, Francesca Happé, and Joe Piven. My fiancé, Manny Casanova, and I just finished attending this year’s International Meeting for Autism Research (IMFAR) […]
Recent Publication in J.A.M.A. on the Familial Risk of Autism
Just this month an article was published in the Journal of the American Medical Association which assessed the familial risk of autism. This was a gigantic population based study on […]
“For Every To, There Is a Fro”
Recently, blogger and trend-seeker-outer, Kas Thomas, reported on his blog, assertTrue( ), a very interesting finding regarding trends in complementary trinucleotides in protein coding genes of organisms with high GC content, […]
Cellular Appearances Can Be Deceiving…
For the past year I’ve been working on a project involving the development of hair. Some of our recent findings involve variations in function of a key protein, a type […]
Nuclear Fusion & the Elements of Life
I hope you’ll all forgive this brief post today. I’ve been buried under insane levels of work for the last several weeks. However, as I was taking a short break […]
The “Race” to Discover Cortical Dysplasias in Autism
An article was published recently in The New England Journal of Medicine by Eric Courchesne’s group, investigating what is essentially evidence of dysplasia (underdevelopment due to prolonged progenitor proliferation at […]
Science Over a Cuppa 
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