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The Balance of Science and Life 2.0

neurosciencestuff:

Researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have discovered that a neuronal pathway — part of the autonomic nervous system — reaches the bones and participates in the control of bone development.

The newly discovered pathway has a key role in controlling bone density during adolescence, which in turn determines the skeletal resistance to fracture throughout one’s entire life, say the researchers. They emphasize that understanding the mechanisms connecting the brain and the bones could have implications for possible future therapies to better deal with osteoporosis and various neural disorders. The findings of the Hebrew University team are published this week in the American journal PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences).

Another reason why adolescence is such a complicated time in our lives.

Laboratory Equipment: Body's First Response Cells Could Produce Better Vaccines

laboratoryequipment:

Researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva Univ. have discovered a new “first response” mechanism that the immune system uses to respond to infection. The findings challenge the current understanding of immunity and could lead to new strategies for boosting effectiveness of all…

The major problem with this is that inflammatory monocytes don’t have the ability to recognize specific antigens or create a memory phenotype thus with every preceding infection with the same bacteria or virus the monocyte population is going to respond the same. The great thing about memory CD8 t cells is that they require less stimulation to become activated and proliferate thus with preceding infections they can respond faster thus you remove the infection before becoming symptomatic. The inflammatory monocytes won’t be able to react this way thus you’ll become sick because they simply react the same way with each infection.

How Gut Bugs Make You Sick — or Well

You are not alone – ever. All day, every day, you’re in the company of millions of other creatures, even when there’s not another soul in sight. More unsettling still, those unseen others live inside you.

that’s a wrap, folks.

writethethesiswords:

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Click on the Read More link above…this is hilarious. Grad school life :-)

Hi everyone

The committee has agreed that Chris Fleming did a great job defending his proposal, and has revised the written proposal adequately. Therefore, Chris Fleming has passed the qualifying exam successfully.

Dr. Alard

Chair of the Committee

…..in case you’re now wondering why I’m posting again on Tumblr!!! YEA BABY!!!

Hi everyone! I’ve just updated my photography and digital art page on Tumblr so just click on the photos above to check it out. Message or submit a post to let me know what you think. Photography is a hobby of mine that helps me disconnect with the professional side of my life and I don’t know what I would do without it. I don’t have as much time to develop my skills these days but I’m hoping somewhere down the line I can really get into it. Enjoy!

(Source: chrisjfleming)

jtotheizzoe:

E.O. Wilson’s Advice to Young Scientists

This is advice to come back to again and again.

On charting new courses of inquiry, and finding inspiration in research and in learning, he tells us to march to our own drummer, and to not fall in with the army of the masses:

“Observe from a distance, but do not join the fray. Make a fray of your own.”

And on our need to seed, stoke and feed our curiosity with as many varied influences and disciplines as we can:

“In time, all of science will come to be a continuum of description, an explanation of networks, of principles and laws. That’s why you need not just be training in one specialty, but also acquire breadth in other fields, related to and even distant from your own initial choice.

Keep your eyes lifted and your head turning. The search for knowledge is in our genes.”

Finally, bad at math? You’ll be happy to know that he says not to worry too much. You’ve got plenty of time. And you can always add a mathematician as a collaborator.

(via Brain Pickings)

Ideas not coupled with action never become bigger than the brain cells they occupied.

Arnold H. Glasow (via quote-book)

Even though neurons are very large cells…they’re still itty bitty cells…DON’T HOLD BACK!

Love it when posts hit things right on the head.

No matter how much education you might get in the future…never ever let your brain get bigger than your heart. You have to feed your heart just as much as you feed your brain. :-)

(Source: n0-h8-m8)