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  • From spiders to breast cancer: Leslie Brunetta talks candidly about her cancer diagnosis, treatment, and follow-up

    …very giving. I live in Cambridge, MA, where I could actually make choices about where I wanted to be treated at each phase and know I’d get excellent, humane care and where none of the facilities I went to was more than about 20 minutes away. Some things that women might have some control over and that their families might help nudge them toward: Find doctors you trust. Ask a lot of questions and make sure you understand the answers. But do…

    Authored by on January 31, 2012

  • Can the body handle a Mars trip?

    …217;re itching to be one of the first on a Mars colony, you could apply for the chance to go through the Mars One Project’s training – which is, of course, also a reality TV show – and perhaps end up on human outpost in 2023. But I digress…) The real question is, are WE – us actual humans – physiologically ready for such a trip? The health considerations of space travel are no small thing. In fact, in BMJ‘s Christmas issue, S. M…

    Authored by on January 30, 2013

  • 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

  • An antibody therapy for hemophilia A?

    …, FIXa and FX, thereby mimicking the function and architecture of the missing FVIII without actually administering it. FVIII activates FX in the presence of FIXa. hBS23 is a bispecific antibody that replaces FVIII. (c) 2012 Nature Publishing Group [Nature Medicine, doi:10.1038/nm.2942] In test tube clotting assays, hBS23 was about 14-times less catalytically efficient than FVIII itself, yet could nevertheless induce clotting, even in c…

    Authored by on October 12, 2012

  • The Amazing Antibody and its Therapeutic Potential

    …ll recognize and attach itself to the invader, which is scientifically referred to as an antigen.  When an antibody attaches to an antigen, it signals to our body to get rid of it.  Amazingly, each antibody can only recognize 1 antigen, which is why we need so many different types of antibodies!      To get a better idea of how antibodies work, it is important to learn their basic structure.  Antibodies are ‘Y’ shaped proteins, and have both co…

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  • Anorexia nervosa, neurobiology, and family-based treatment

    sume eating. If they were still alive. Bruch’s observations dictated eating-disorders treatments for decades, treatments that led to spectacularly ineffective results. Only about 35% of people with anorexia recovered; another 20% died, of starvation or suicide; and the rest lived with some level of chronic illness for the rest of their lives. Not a great track record, overall, and especially devastating for women, who suffer from anorexia at a ra…

    Authored by on August 10, 2012

  • 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

  • Explosions, Just a Bit More Than Fireworks

    …an element (within a compound.) The original definition can easily be shown in terms of explosives. The simple mixing of hydrogen and oxygen with the addition of just a bit of heat, will form water in an explosive display: 2H2 + O2 –> 2H2O The little flame used to catalyze the reaction in the video is actually much more energy than is necessary to cause this reaction to occur, but it’s difficult to get an even littler source of heat…

    Authored by on July 4, 2012

  • 10 ways healthcare reform might help people with disabilities

    …ariety of names, including the Affordable Care Act (ACA), the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), and Obamacare. All of the terms refer to the same federal statute that President Obama signed into law on March 23, 2010. Slideshow: 10 Ways Healthcare Reform Might Help People with Disabilities Click first slide to view….

    Authored by on May 16, 2013

  • The things we never leave behind

    …that I didn’t want to be medicated. I eventually opened up to my advisor. I let him know that I was in therapy, and everything was fine until it all fell apart. I had a panic attack in someone else’s lab. I spent 24 hours wrought with embarrassment, angry that my unrelenting tears were met with condescension, utterly confused by my inability to control my emotions. And then I wanted the pills. Whatever they were. Whatever people used…

    Authored by on April 26, 2013

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