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Americans today are faced with numerous health issues, but obesity is one of the most concerning diseases that is plaguing the country. According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), about 60 million adults are obese, and this number is continuously rising at an alarming rate. By definition, a person is obese when [...]
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Last Tuesday, I studied for my biology test in the quad and drank down a glorious frozen lemonade from the Daily Grind while getting a nice stinging sunburn. Now, let’s travel 1,200 miles northwest, to my good old hometown of … Continue reading →
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Growing up in the 1990′s, I was familiar with the usefulness of laboratory mice from a very young age, thanks to my hours spent watching Pinky and the Brain. Since that time, however, lab mouse technology has improved quite a bit–scientists have found a way to make mice function more like humans. If you’re feeling [...]
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I hate the outdoors. Although I have lived in the south for almost 9 years, I am a total city girl when it comes to that stuff. I think the problem is I know too much. I know about all of the diseases you can get from the various bugs and other gems of nature. Tetanus and Lyme disease, to name a few. And now, researchers have found an illness you can catch from the great outdoors that is so new, it doesn’t even have a name yet. Yale researchers have […]
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In a variety of places around the world, there are small pockets of the population that exhibit a rare type of dwarfism, called Laron syndrome. Most dwarfism is caused by a lack of growth hormone, but Laron syndrome patients have an excess. They are dwarves because of a genetic mutation that deactivates the growth-hormone receptors [...]
