Blogger Jason Kottke has complied a succint, interesting description of the manufacturing process for the H1N1 influenza vaccine: The most striking feature of the H1N1 …
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New network to connect studies with volunteers
A new networking service called ResearchMatch has launched with the express goal of connecting volunteers with research studies. Stanford's School of Medicine is one of …
How Stanford scanned a 2,500-year-old mummy
Our videographer Todd Holland just put the finishing touches on his video chronicling the scanning of a 2,500-year-old mummy named Irethorrou. The video shows how …
Scans of a Lego MRI set
Over the weekend I noticed this great photo set on Flickr containing scans of a Lego MRI system. Apparently the Lego set was built as …
Why doctors and patients shouldn't discuss medical problems on social media
Bryan Vartabedian, MD, a Baylor physician, has a great post on 33 Charts today about doctor-patient conversations on social media. His conclusion: Doctors and patients …
Researchers identify dominant chemical that attracts mosquitoes to humans
UC Davis researchers have identified the sweet, sweet cologne that draws blood-feeding Culex mosquitoes (which transmit West Nile virus and other diseases) to humans. Apparently …
A century of brain imaging
There's a fantastic gallery of images over at MIT Technology Review showing how our ability to image the brain has evolved over 100 years. The …
Harvard Medical School launches H1N1 influenza iPhone app
Harvard Medical School recently released an iPhone application designed to educate its users about the H1N1 influenza pandemic. Here's the description from iTunes: The Swine …
How the flu virus invades your body
This is an absolutely fascinating NPR video that shows how a virus invades your body. According to the NPR story, scientific animation outfit XVIVO produced …
Using E. coli as an engine
First they conscripted E. coli into computations; now scientists have coaxed the bacteria into pushing on the teeth of a tiny crankshaft. The Physics arXiv …
T.R. Reid talks about health-care reform
In his new book, The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care, journalist T.R. Reid writes: On September 11, …
The increasing power of the placebo
Steve Silberman has written a fascinating article for Wired about the increasing power of the placebo effect and its potential effect on the pharmaceutical industry. …
Why health-care professionals should blog
There's a reasonably good post today on the Better Health blog about why health-care professionals should blog. While I don't agree with some of the …
Stephen Quake talks about decoding his genome
Yesterday I wrote about how bioengineering professor Stephen Quake sequenced his own genome for less than $50,000 and with a team of just two other …
Stephen Quake has decoded his own genome
Stanford bioengineering professor Stephen Quake has decoded his own genome for only $50,000. By comparison, the most recently sequenced human genome cost $250,000 to decode. …
Americans increasingly browsing before breakfast
According to an article in the New York Times yesterday, many Americans now make the Internet their first stop of the morning: After six to …