I've been following Roy Zimmerman's output of musical satire since his 2004 album Faulty Intelligence, and I was certainly not disappointed by the recent You're Getting Sleepy. The CD's title is shared with the opening song and refers to the hypno... read more

I've posted a couple times about the prospects of using high-resolution computed tomography imaging to assess cellular-level processes of growth and development. Today, Paul Tafforeau and colleagues present a synchrotron-based visualization o... read more

Il corpo calloso ha sempre rappresentato una sintesi di frustrazione neuroanatomica. Non è corteccia né nucleo di attivazione neurale ma è fondamentale in ogni processo cognitivo, massima espressione della specializzazione emisferica e delle asimm... read more

Forensic Sci Int Genet. 2012 Jan 30. [Epub ahead of print] An investigation of admixture in an Australian Aboriginal Y-chromosome STR database. Taylor D, Nagle N, Ballantyne KN, van Oorschot RA, Wilcox S, Henry J, Turakulov R, Mitchell RJ. Abstrac... read more

Notable, from the Guardian: "Malaria kills twice as many people as previously thought, research finds". The study demolishes conventional thinking on malaria – that almost all the deaths are in babies and small children under the age of five. The ... read more

Our gene mapping project, which we first blogged about here, is starting to get interesting.  And not necessarily for the reasons that we'd hoped.  You might remember that our project is looking for genes involved in variation in specifi... read more

That’s my conclusion after checking out My Cartoon Version of Reality, Conor McHale’s brilliant blog. He had a lovely series on the Meeting House Square Excavations, showing some behind-the-scenes sketches, such as this view from the window of a d... read more