In the course of my day I came across this useful chart called the Bristol Stool Guide. It is an attempt to classify poos into 7 categories, as below:

Types 1 and 2 indicate constipation. Types 3 and 4 are the “ideal poos” especially the latter, as I call it, a “teflon coated poo”. Types 5 […]

After the good news about the house, now I have been offered a place at the University of Sydney in the Bachelor of Medical Science. They take 200 people per year so it is pretty good going. Now I have to find someone to go and enrol for me on Tuesday afternoon otherwise the offer […]

Check out this cool new technology that allows your mobile phone to connect to a supercomputer so that it can identify all sorts of things through its camera and stuff… well it’s hard to explain, watch the video!

It is surely only a small step from here to futuristic sunglasses that overlay all sorts of information […]

David Sinclair, an Australian scientist now at Harvard University, reckons he has found a new medical treatment… for aging! Controversial but very interesting. In this video he explains the discovery. There’s a good article about him and his work here.
Don’t rush out and start drinking red wine though; you would need to drink 1500 bottles […]

The Yangtze River dolphin is no more - the first cetacean to disappear as a result of human activity.
After a fruitless search lasting six weeks, scientists failed to find a single Yangtze river dolphin, also known as the Baiji, in its natural habitat in China. They will now propose that the dolphin be formally reclassified […]

I have just enrolled in the following two papers for next semester:
BMSC 241 – Heredity and Gene Expression
An introduction to the structure and behaviour of chromosomes, genes, DNA; and to the processes of heredity and the mechanisms by which genetic information is transmitted and expressed in humans and other animals. Some discussion of the genetics […]

Takes me back to those good old days of table-top Pacman… Looks like great fun though!

This is the sort of video us biomedical nerds get off on.

So cool…. (shuts mouth)

By giving ordinary adult mice a drug - a synthetic designed to mimic fat - Salk Institute scientist Dr. Ronald M. Evans is now able to chemically switch on PPAR-d, the master regulator that controls the ability of cells to burn fat. Even when the mice are not active, turning on the chemical switch activates […]

Exciting medical news today that researchers have found a possible drug to counteract the cognitive difficulties caused by Down Syndrome.
Researchers gave low doses of a human drug to mice bred to mimic the learning and memory problems in people with Down syndrome. After as little as two weeks, the impaired mice performed as well as […]