A Visual Display of the Declining Mind

Diagnosed with Alzheimer's in 1996, the artist William Utermohlen created a series of self-portraits that hauntingly portray the perceptual losses he suffered as the disease progressed. Art as medical science...

Brain Gym

File under: but we enjoy this little nonsense and we believe in it, therefore its critics must be EVIL.

Same DNA does not same features make

The DNA may remain the same, but the proteins and tissues it builds are oh so different...

Conflicting Agendas... in Gestation?

Perhaps a mother's body (and her fetus) are not as altruistic as we might think. "Genetic competition" within families, and the evolutionary pressures that result, are pretty darn interesting.

Go Ahead, Watch Me Evolve.

Amazing stuff, searching the genome for "recent" changes and what characteristics they gave us...