I’m sure by now everyone has heard about the fluorescent green pigs produced by Taiwanese scientists. It’s a relatively simple technique, all one has to do is: transfect a plasmid containing the GFP and (maybe) am antibiotic resistance selector into very early embryonic stem cells, select using the antibiotic1 and the GFP, (That’s the easy […]

Victor Davis Hanson has a very good “Letter to the Europeans” up which captures the feelings that many on the right have towards The Continent. As he says in the piece, we cons don’t hate Europe, we are frustrated at their suicidal course. And this is not a racial thing, but a frustration over watching […]

The Swedish newspaper, Dagens Nyhete, has just released electron microscopic images of the H5N1 strain of the avian virus. I present them here without commentary (unless someone wants to step up and translate Swedish for me), here is the slide show No real reason to post this other than sometimes science images are simply cool. […]

For a long time now I have been meaning to post my thoughts on what I see as overhyping the avian flu situation. Luckily, a reader of Instapundit beat me to it and summed up nicely a lot of my thoughts. As a medical researcher, I want to make a gentle but sincere plea to […]

Ronald Bailey, in an article over at reason, points out one unintentional consequence of Bush’s funding restrictions: The National Institutes of Health spent $24.3 million dollars on human embryonic stem-cell research last year. Critics of President Bush’s policy of limiting federal funding to only those stem-cell lines derived before August 2001 worry that this amount—relative […]

The always enjoyable Victor Davis Hanson has a good piece in the online WSJ today talking about the out-of-control diversity problem on college campuses. Go read.