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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

I was excited to read today that Stephen Hawking thinks we should colonize other planets. I am behind this 100%!! I’ve always thought that should be the prime goal of our society, because up until that goal is reached, we have all our eggs in one BASKET and that is never clever. Once we have […]

A lovely simulation of the Earth getting destroyed by a meteorite.