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Musings of an oft-bemused former laboratory post-doc.
Lee Turnpenny
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- May 18, 2013
- 02:10 PM
- 17 views
‘Is ‘cloning’ mad, bad and dangerous?’ – an argument revisited
by Lee Turnpenny in The Mawk Moth Profligacies
Is 'cloning' appropriate terminology for somatic cell nuclear transfer derivation of human embryonic stem cells?... Read more »
Tachibana, M., Amato, P., Sparman, M., Gutierrez, N., Tippner-Hedges, R., Ma, H., Kang, E., Fulati, A., Lee, H., Sritanaudomchai, H.... (2013) Human Embryonic Stem Cells Derived by Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer. Cell. DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2013.05.006
- February 21, 2013
- 01:21 PM
- 215 views
‘What Doctors Don’t Tell You’ cites paper that demonstrates there is no such thing as homeopathy
by Lee Turnpenny in The Mawk Moth Profligacies
Does ‘What Doctors Don’t Tell You’ magazine, in an article entitled ‘Homeopathy is more than placebo’, inappropriately cite this paper?... Read more »
Rostock, M., Naumann, J., Guethlin, C., Guenther, L., Bartsch, H., & Walach, H. (2011) Classical homeopathy in the treatment of cancer patients - a prospective observational study of two independent cohorts. BMC Cancer, 11(1), 19. DOI: 10.1186/1471-2407-11-19
- August 28, 2012
- 07:32 PM
- 275 views
Sex and the (self-)Pity
by Lee Turnpenny in The Mawk Moth Profligacies
Is the significant link between the rate of disease risk-associated de novo mutation and increased paternal age sufficient argument for young men to consider freeze-storing their sperm?... Read more »
Kong A, Frigge ML, Masson G, Besenbacher S, Sulem P, Magnusson G, Gudjonsson SA, Sigurdsson A, Jonasdottir A, Jonasdottir A.... (2012) Rate of de novo mutations and the importance of father's age to disease risk. Nature, 488(7412), 471-5. PMID: 22914163
- Anthropology
- Biology
- Social Science
- Research / Scholarship
- Health
- Evolutionary Biology
- Schizophrenia
- Genetics
- Sperm
- Molecular Biology
- Public Health
- Sociology
- Science Communication
- Behavioral Biology
- Autism Spectrum Disorder
- Genomics
- Biological Anthropology
- Human Reproduction
- Evolutionary Anthropology
- Mutation
- August 12, 2012
- 02:37 PM
- 261 views
Human embryonic (knowledge) germ(ination) cells
by Lee Turnpenny in The Mawk Moth Profligacies
On the acknowledged difficulties of deriving and culturing human embryonic germ cells, in light of some informative new data...... Read more »
Pashai N, Hao H, All A, Gupta S, Chaerkady R, De Los Angeles A, Gearhart JD, & Kerr CL. (2012) Genome-wide profiling of pluripotent cells reveals a unique molecular signature of human embryonic germ cells. PloS one, 7(6). PMID: 22737227
- April 19, 2012
- 07:49 PM
- 448 views
The fertile 'philosophy' of homeopathy
by Lee Turnpenny in The Mawk Moth Profligacies
On the marketing of homeopathy and its claimed effectiveness as treatment for infertility... Read more »
Brien, S., Lachance, L., Prescott, P., McDermott, C., & Lewith, G. (2010) Homeopathy has clinical benefits in rheumatoid arthritis patients that are attributable to the consultation process but not the homeopathic remedy: a randomized controlled clinical trial. Rheumatology, 50(6), 1070-1082. DOI: 10.1093/rheumatology/keq234
- January 16, 2012
- 06:30 PM
- 449 views
Taking care with what you take in
by Lee Turnpenny in The Mawk Moth Profligacies
Processed meat, pancreatic cancer, epidemiology, The Observer... Read more »
Larsson, S., & Wolk, A. (2012) Red and processed meat consumption and risk of pancreatic cancer: meta-analysis of prospective studies. British Journal of Cancer. DOI: 10.1038/bjc.2011.585
- October 7, 2011
- 11:13 AM
- 345 views
Scandal-less
by Lee Turnpenny in The Mawk Moth Profligacies
Commending science... and the reporting of it.... Read more »
Noggle S, Fung HL, Gore A, Martinez H, Satriani KC, Prosser R, Oum K, Paull D, Druckenmiller S, Freeby M.... (2011) Human oocytes reprogram somatic cells to a pluripotent state. Nature, 478(7367), 70-5. PMID: 21979046
- March 16, 2011
- 09:01 AM
- 803 views
'Strawberry Fields Forever'?
by Lee Turnpenny in The Mawk Moth Profligacies
Brazil, Botrytis cinerea, strawberry, strawberry gray mould, strawberry gray rot... Read more »
Moreira JS, Almeida RG, Tavares LS, Santos MO, Viccini LF, Vasconcelos IM, Oliveira JT, Raposo NR, Dias SC, & Franco OL. (2011) Identification of botryticidal proteins with similarity to NBS-LRR proteins in rosemary pepper (Lippia sidoides Cham.) flowers. The protein journal, 30(1), 32-8. PMID: 21210197
- April 13, 2009
- 03:50 PM
- 177 views
Dull
by Lee Turnpenny in The Mawk Moth Profligacies
Are modern scientists dull? If so, why?... Read more »
Charlton, B. (2009) Why are modern scientists so dull? How science selects for perseverance and sociability at the expense of intelligence and creativity. Medical Hypotheses, 72(3), 237-243. DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2008.11.020
- January 28, 2009
- 01:20 PM
- 211 views
sex, lies, and watergate
by Lee Turnpenny in The Mawk Moth Profligacies
Sex, theoretical biology, Frost/Nixon... Read more »
Seymour RM, & Sozou PD. (2009) Duration of courtship effort as a costly signal. Journal of theoretical biology, 256(1), 1-13. PMID: 18955065
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