The World Conference of Science Journalists meets, greets, and tweets. Free E. coli papers. Pharma STEPS toward getting docs to prescribe more drugs. Drug effects in the elderly. New blogs from Kaiser Health News, JAMA, and Laura Newman.
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Apps for self-tracking health and behavior take off, somewhat. Call it synthetic biology, genetic engineering, or biotechnology, the creation of new organisms may be about to take off, thanks in part to funding from DARPA, the US military research agency.
It's E. coli all the way down--with an impressive moral dimension.
Dethroning microbes. Farewell, arsenic bug. So long, XMRV.
Rescheduled Rapture. Raptures for the feisty, spunky, plucky little Mars Spirit Rover. Should science writers be in the debunking business? Happy Birthday, Last Word on Nothing. Once more, arsenic bugging.
Debunking crackpot science and fraudulent inventions has never been easier than now thanks to the world-shattering development of the Crackpot Flowchart(TM) from Sciencebase.
The death of Osama bin Laden: genomics, neuroscience, health and medicine, anthropology, media matters.
The Royal Wedding, Kate and William, William and Kate, and the genetics of inbreeding. Also wed: National Geographic and Scienceblogs.com. Or maybe they're just living together. Temporarily. Autism and childhood vaccines remain wedded in the minds of some. Sigh.
Gary Taubes takes on another dietary foe: Sugar, he declares, is not just empty calories, it causes most of what ails us, even (maybe) cancer. The BP Gulf oil spill a year later: Still an oily residue. New guidelines on early diagnosis for Alzheimer's disease: What's the point, since there's no therapy?