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Genetics Got You Down? Try This Pick-Me-Up

Posted on March 4, 2014 by Jeffrey Perkel

What’s in Your Genes? is delightfully fun.
By Jeffrey M. Perkel
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Posted in Book review, Everything else | Tagged Beatrice the Biologist, book review, Jeffrey Perkel, Katie McKissick

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The poop on “fecal microbiota transplantation”

Posted on December 23, 2013 by Jeffrey Perkel

It’s disgusting, but for some, it works.

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Posted in Health | Tagged Jeffrey Perkel, microbiome, microbiota, next-gen sequencing

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Of CRISPR/Cas and the power of basic research

Posted on September 18, 2013 by Jeffrey Perkel

Researchers discover what they didn’t set out to find.

By Jeffrey M. Perkel

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Posted in Biology, Everything else | Tagged CRISPR/Cas, Emmanuelle Charpentier, genome editing, George Church, Jeffrey Perkel, Jennifer Doudna

Smoke signals cancer’s edges in surgery

Posted on August 5, 2013 by Jeffrey Perkel

Smoke from cauterized tissues can ID tumor margins

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Posted in Biology, Everything else, Health | Tagged breast cancer, iKnife, Jeffrey Perkel, lumpectomy, mass spec, mass spectrometry, mastecomy, tumor margin

Chasing tornadoes is an old habit

Posted on June 4, 2013 by Jeffrey Perkel

We’ve been running after them for centuries.

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Posted in Book review, Everything else | Tagged book review, fire tornado, hurricane, Jeffrey Perkel, storm chasers, storm chasing, tornado, twister

What causes recurrent UTIs?

Posted on May 22, 2013 by Jeffrey Perkel

Bladder to gut might be bacterial two-way street.

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Posted in Biology, Everything else, Health | Tagged bladder infection, Jeffrey Perkel, recurrent UTI, UTI

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Unicorns and Brainbows

Posted on May 6, 2013 by Jeffrey Perkel

Brainbow is a mouse with a rainbow brain.

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Posted in Biology, Everything else | Tagged brainbow, brainbow mouse, connectome, Jeffrey Perkel, transgenic

Circumcision shuffles the penis ecosystem

Posted on April 16, 2013 by Jeffrey Perkel

In adults, the snip alters more than the shape.

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Posted in Biology, Everything else | Tagged adult circumcision, cirumcision, Jeffrey Perkel, penis ecosystem, penis microbiome

La vie est belle, n’est-ce pas?

Posted on April 14, 2013 by Jeffrey Perkel

The beauty of the life under a microscope.

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Posted in Biology, Everything else | Tagged Jeffrey Perkel, Karl Deisseroth, microscopy, Philipp Keller, photomicrography

A history lesson written in … plaque?

Posted on March 18, 2013 by Jeffrey Perkel

The oral ecosystem: It’s real, and it’s … kinda gross.

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Posted in Biology, Everything else, Health | Tagged dentist, Jeffrey Perkel, microbiome, ribosomal RNA, tooth decay

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