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The Sum of Our Parts Putting the microbiome front and center in health care, in preventive strategies, and in health-risk assessments could stem the epidemic of noncommunicable diseases.

The Disgusting Disease That’s On The Bottom Of Your Shoes You won’t believe the nasty bacteria that you’re probably carrying into your home.

Infographic: Deaths From Drug-Resistant Infections Set To Skyrocket This chart shows deaths from antimicrobial resistant infections and other causes in 2050.

Peptide in the Swine-Flu Vaccine Linked to Narcolepsy Following a concerted H1N1 vaccination campaign throughout Europe in 2009, children immunized with GlaxoSmithKline's Pandemrix vaccine, but not Novartis's Focetria, were at an increased risk of developing narcolepsy. In support of an...

11 Tricks for Using OneNote as Your Lab Notebook Over the past few months, I’ve presented two sessions describing the use of Microsoft OneNote as an electronic lab notebook at Harvard. As we’ve discussed previously on this blog, there are lots of...

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Thermo Scientific Pierce Scholarship Program Thermo Fisher Scientific is offering our future science scholars an opportunity to win $10,000 in scholarship funding for the Spring 2015 semester.

Ancient Human Skulls Reveal When Europeans Could Drink Milk The DNA from 13 ancient humans reveals the evolution of lighter skin and lactose tolerance. The skeletons were found in archaeological burial sites unearthed during highway construction in the Great Hungarian Plain in Central Europe.

Anything metal you own is made through badassery Metal machining is badass. Nothing is easy, and everything involves heat, the risk of bodily harm and sheer, unbridled power. All of this is exemplified in this great playlist of slo-mo videos, showing how various metal objects are made.

Epigenetics Paper Raises Questions | The Scientist Magazine® GENETICS publishes a commentary criticizing a Nature Neuroscience paper claiming that mice can inherit smell sensitivities that their parents acquired during life.