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 […]
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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 […]
Thinking Twenty Moves Ahead – Visualizing Biological Complexity
My partner has adored chess ever since he was a child.While I’m no aficiando like he is, there’s something easy to romanticize about the game. The sheer artistry of the […]
The Antiepileptic, Valproic Acid – A Mutagen?
As a medicine, valproic acid (VPA) has a variety of uses. Not only does it serve as an antiepileptic drug, it can also be used for mood stabilization in Bipolar, […]
“The Relation Is the Smallest Unit of Analysis”
Continuity. Indivisible systems. One node connected to another connected to another, each pulling and pushing against the weight of its partners. Try to analyze the individual constituents of most systems […]
Move Over, Proteins – Science Says it’s an RNA World Now. But is it?
Hello, folks. Back in September, a seminal group of works were published in Nature and Science which revealed that contrary to our once-protein-centric view of genetics, the majority of gene […]
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