Genes: convenient tokens of our time

M y post today, perhaps typically cranky, was triggered by an essay at  Aeon  about the influence that the film Still Alice has had on thin...

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Running and neurogenesis; the plastic brain

A new   paper online in the Journal of Physiology ("Physical exercise increases adult hippocampal neurogenesis in male rats provided ...

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Einstein meets Newton, or Diabetes and the Theory of Relativity

Isaac Newton was one of the founders of modern science. He helped promulgate the idea of formal Laws of Nature, that Nature was law-like in ...

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