New Brain Cells
As humans live longer, what will happen to our memories? Provided our brains stay functional, will the “memory card” be filled? Will old memories have to be “overwritten”? As a […]
Category Archives: Biology
Longevity In the Extremes
As I write this it’s -48 F outside. My car is attached to an electrical cord that powers a battery warmer so I’ll be able to start it in the […]
Surviving the Nuclear Apocalypse, or Just Aging Better
Would you introduce another organism’s genes into your own body in order to age more slowly? What if the genes could reduce radiation damage? Recently, researchers made a discovery that […]
Toughest, and Funnest, Pet?
If you can get past the smell of sulfur and brine, a swim in the Great Salt Lake is a swim with some of the planet’s toughest creatures, brine […]
Ethics of Reviving the Dead
So we never thought we’d have this conversation but here it is: Is it ethical to revive the dead? A new human trial by a company called Bioquark is showing […]
Driving Genes To Extinction
300,000 children in Africa die of malaria each year. If you could wipe out the mosquito that carries Malaria, would you do it? That question may soon be one we […]
Reducing the Severity of Strokes From the Inside Out
Stroke is the second most common cause of death and disability in the world. If you are going to write sci-fi about a world where people are immortal, you end […]
Is Alzheimer’s Contagious?
I hate sensational headlines, so I’ll tell you the answer in the next sentence but the title of this post is the only way to introduce this topic. Studies have […]
CRISPR Games
If you doubt the power of the written word, look at one of biotech’s recent controversies. In this blog, I’ve mentioned CRISPR, the gene editing technology that . Like many scientific endeavors, it […]
The Toughest, and Cutest, Mammal?
Last week, I posted about the tardigrade, a microscopic creature that is one of the toughest on earth, reviving after years of being frozen or dried. But what about mammals? […]
The Phoenix Series 