Category Archives: Biomedical
An Axolotl with a Tale for Regenerative Medicine
Who would imagine that a salamander could offer clues for regenerating human limbs after amputation in an accident and on the battlefield, or even show how to thwart human cancer? Axolotls are the kind of weird creature you might expect … Continue reading
Posted in Animalia, Biomedical, Other
Tagged amputation, axolotl, blastema, neoteny, regenerative medicine
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In memoriam – Howard W. Jones, Jr. M.D. (1910-2015)
FROM SUN TO SHINING SEA Dr. Howard Jones passed away a year ago today in his 105th year. The following is extracted from the prologue I wrote for “Howard & Georgeanna” (2015) to remind us of our loss. Since pioneer days, very … Continue reading
Frozen Eggs Perks as Policy
Ashton Carter announced the Pentagon will make a bigger commitment to family-building for people serving in the military. The package includes new benefits for maternity leave and child care, and even a pilot scheme for egg and sperm freezing. The … Continue reading
Posted in Biomedical, Fertility
Tagged Frozen egg banking, IVF, vitrification
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No Sex Please, We’re Bananas
That’s a problem for our banana-munching republic. Sex was suspended for banana cultivation long ago, and the price we will pay is a Bananageddon. Here’s why. The plant is propagated vegetatively and cannot produce seeds because it is genetically triploid. … Continue reading
SNPs are Us
It won’t be long before snp is added to the pantheon of approved English words in the OED. It will sit among those rarest of words, those that lack a vowel like the crafty Welsh invented—cwm (a mountain hollow), crwth … Continue reading
Posted in Biomedical, Health
Tagged 23andme, DNA ancestry, DNA testing, genetic disease, promethease, single nucleotide polymorphisms, SNPs
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Roger musing about Peace with Nature 