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  • Biology Explainer: The big 4 building blocks of life–carbohydrates, fats, proteins, and nucleic acids

    …molecules themselves break down into a surprisingly small number of building blocks. The proteins that make up all of the living things on this planet and ensure their appropriate structure and smooth function consist of only 20 different kinds of building blocks. Nucleic acids, specifically DNA, are even more basic: only four different kinds of molecules provide the materials to build the countless different genetic codes that translate into all…

    Authored by on June 8, 2012

  • We can’t stop preterm births. Can we do more for preterm babies?

    Baby girl born at 26 weeks, 6 days of gestation,weighing less than 2 pounds. Via Wikimedia Commons.Credit: Chris Sternal-Johnson. by Emily Willingham, DXS managing editor Today, Carolyn S. Miles, president and CEO at Save the Children writes at the Huffington Post (ducks) about the latest findings regarding our ability to stop a preterm birth from happening. As anyone who’s given birth knows, it’s not easy to stop that proc…

    Authored by on November 16, 2012

  • If you try one detox this year, make it this one

    …is 7, values above 7 are basic, and values below are acidic. But our bodies vary from location to location in what the “just-right” pH should be. So what does a “steady pH” even mean? The pH of your stomach, a nice digestive 2? The pH of your muscle and muscle, around 7? The pH of your vagina, at 4? One fruit can’t possibly do all of these things, and it’s doubtful that it even does one of them. What about acai berries and other foods “packed wi…

    Authored by on January 21, 2013

  • After Newtown missteps, journalists get guidelines

    …almost twice as likely to say that they don’t want to live or work near a person with mental illness if they read an article about a person with mental illness involved in a mass shooting, according to a study published March 20 in the American Journal of Psychiatry. Interestingly, this tendency is the same even if the article avoids any mention of mental illness. This may be because this link between violence and mental illness is deeply engrain…

    Authored by on March 27, 2013

  • Welcome to the 21st century and welcome to MARS

    …te (I still miss that man) wiping his face in disbelief. As someone who was born in the mid-20th century and knew and lived with people born in the 1800s, I am in awe of what I’m seeing today in the second decade of the 21st century. You can relive that moment from 43 years ago in the video below. You might even recognize the real-life versions of some of the characters who featured in Apollo 13, one of my favorite movies. I also am a fan…

    Authored by on August 6, 2012

  • The Fatherhood Adjustment

    …lpful. In short, I did not freak out at the prospect of becoming a father. For a lot of men, though, pregnancy is exactly when things begin to get dicey. A longitudinal study in Australia assessed men when their partners were 23 weeks pregnant, and again three months, six months and 12 months after the birth of their first child. In their resulting 2004 paper, the researchers confessed surprise at the findings. They had expected the first few mon…

    Authored by on May 14, 2013

  • Did Einstein write his most famous equation? Does it matter?

    Why all the fuss about E = m c 2? By Matthew R. Francis Albert Einstein in Pittsburgh, 1934. (Credit: Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph/Dwight Vincent and David Topper) The association is strong in our minds: Albert Einstein. Genius. Crazy hair. E = m c 2. Maybe many people don’t know what else Einstein did, but they know about the hair and that equation. They may think he flunked math in school (wrong, though he did have conflicts with some teach…

    Authored by on May 21, 2013

  • Is the bar high enough for screening breast ultrasounds for breast cancer?

    …n controversial. What’s new is the “Are You Dense?” patient movement and legislation to inform women that they have dense breasts. Merits and pitfalls of device approval The approval of breast ultrasound hinges on a study of 200 women with dense breast evaluated retrospectively at 13 sites across the United States with mammography and ultrasound. The study showed a statistically significant increase in breast cancer detection when ultrasound was…

    Authored by on September 21, 2012

  • Autism and the DSM-5

    …ial social aspect of this change, and the one thing that might, when it comes to autism, elevate the DSM-5 above the level of doorstop. [Image credit: Dave Bullock, UK, via Wikimedia Commons under Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 generic license.]…

    Authored by on April 23, 2013

  • Depressing genes

    Can depression be a matter of genetic fate? by Siobhan Mitchell          [This post is the latest installment in our I Am Mental Illness series.] What if you could know if you were fated to be depressed? With the rise of personal genotyping services such as 23andme, almost can find out what their psychiatric ‘fate’ will be, but what do you do with this information once you have it? When I first considered testing myself for depressio…

    Authored by on May 17, 2013

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