Archive: Jul 2015

An image of the human eye, showing the location of the lens, where clumps of proteins can form to cause cataracts. (Credits: Johannes Ahlmann, Creative Commons) An article titled “Eye Drops Could Dissolve Cataracts” described new research findings that…

Map of the Pacific Northwest highlighting the Cascadia subduction zone (black line), the Juan de Fuca oceanic plate and the volcanoes (red) associated with the Cascadia subduction zoneBy NASA/Black Tusk (NASA World Wind) [Public domain], via Wikimedia…

1950s-era morgue that has not been remodeled since it was built [Brook Ward under a CC BY-NC 2.0 license] Women now tend to live longer than their male counterparts in every country in the world, but anatomy alone cannot fully explain why.  Looking to…

  Visualization of Earth’s magnetic field [Author: P. Sumanth Naik, distributed under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 license] Many animals have been known to take advantage of the Earth’s magnetic field, often for migration…

Image from 2009 Hoppenrath et al, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License Take a moment to consider the complexity of the human eye. Now, envision a single-celled organism that also contains this extremely complex and…

This is not the face of a health hazard (sorry Daily Mail)Credit: By Dion75e (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons Skinny jeans have been blamed for many things, from the downfall of American men to #Bendgate, but hardly ever for medical…

The plume-like shape of these Bovine Pulmonary Artery Epithelial (BPAE) cells is characteristic of cell motility. Although cells that make up your tissues and organs are typically stationary throughout adult life, there are many reasons a cell may need…