Once upon a time science was about understanding our world. Alas, now it's another marketing ploy. We see this in genetics, and we are...

Well, we just had to write, even over this holiday break (in the US), rather than just leave any hungry or un-turkeyed readers with just our...

Here's a change of pace for a drizzly holiday week (here in Pennsylvania, at least), a game challenge for any readers brave enough to ta...

Perhaps the main concern of our blog is to understand biological causation. Our interests are general, but the issue comes up disproportion...

Well, we return to real science after our soap opera of the last post! We referred the other day to the story that deCode Genetics, the I...

Two days ago Jennifer had a baby goat screaming in pain.  She treated her for everything she could think of (she's a miracle worker whe...

We're doing a series of posts on the subject of 'evidence based' medicine, because of a flurry of items in the news. They have ...