Monthly Archives: January 2010

“Haitian history is a chronicle of suffering so Job-like that it inevitably inspires arguments with God, and about God,” wrote George Packer in the January 25th issue of The New Yorker. Packer then offered a litany of events and circumstances … Continue reading →

 In the Shakespearean sense, this is a brief yet knotty tale of granulomas, of organized aggregates of immune cells in which things are not what they seem.  Viewed through the fog of traditional belief, granulomas, the nodules that are a … Continue reading →

The DNA contained within each of our cells is exactly the same, yet different types of cells – skin cells, heart cells, brain cells – perform very different functions. The ultimate fate of these cells is encoded not just in … Continue reading →

The ability to swim comes as naturally to bacteria as it does to fish. In the wet, microbes propel themselves through fluids using a whip-like extension called a flaggella. But when on solid surfaces, the little beasties also can walk, twitching along using little fibrous … Continue reading →