United States of Amoeba
Another month, another paper to read and blog about. Most people know that viruses are notoriously tricky disease-causing pathogens to tackle. Unlike bacteria which are completely separate organisms, viruses are parasites which use a host cell’s own DNA-and-RNA-and-protein producing mechanisms to reproduce. As a result, most viruses are extremely small, as they need to find [...]
Collateral damage by mitochondria
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 [...]
Slime takes a stroll
It was the end of February yesterday – which means its time to read/blog about another paper! The paper I read for this month brought up an interesting question I’ve always had but never really dug into: how do individual cells find things they can’t “see”? After all, there are lots of microbes out there [...]
Crazy Y Chromosomes
A few weeks ago, I set myself some 2010 goals. One of which was to make sure that I fit in reading at least one paper every month. What I didn’t say though, was that I would try to do a quick blog post on each (to help keep me honest). I forgot exactly how [...]
2010 Goals
I don’t usually do the New Year’s resolutions thing. But this year, since I’m now publishing everything to benjamintseng.com, I think the perceived public scrutiny associated with having a public list of goals for the coming year on my own personal domain name might end up being a good motivator to achieve them. So, without [...]
