Life without Oxygen

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No, that’s not a reference to a Jordin Sparks/Chris Brown song, its the theme for the paper of the month. This month, in expression of my gratitude to the kind folks at Open Access publisher BioMedCentral for sending me a “clone” of their very adorable mascot Gulliver (picture left), I have decided to do a [...]

Collateral damage by mitochondria

→  March 29th, 2010  →  Blog

Another month, another paper to read and blog about. This month, I read a paper (HT: my ex-college roommate Eric) by a group from Beth Israel about systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS) following serious injury. SIRS, which is more commonly understood/found as sepsis, happens when the entire body is on high “immune alert.” In the [...]