Jeffrey Solow, cello virtuoso and past president of the American String Teachers Association "Retired after a 50-year career as a molecular biologist heading his own laboratory at the US National Institutes of Health, Joram Piatigorsky has now embarked on a second career as a writer. As one would expect, he offers an intimate view of [...]
Enough division, conflict, fear, hatred. Enough, I say! We can’t act for others, but we can for ourselves. Perhaps others will join us. Don’t just preach “Peace on Earth and Goodwill Towards All.” That’s good intentions, but it won’t work. Take a lesson from history. It never has succeeded. We don’t make nice just [...]
Gene therapy continues to crawl into our lives with promises and, this time, some surprises. Patrick Yu-Wai-Man, an ophthalmologist at Cambridge University, treated a patient with a mitochondrial gene defect leading to retinal cell death, causing the blinding disease called Leber hereditary optic neuropathy. Image of human retina This is due to [...]
It’s not necessary for you to believe what I’m about to tell you, because the truth remains even if you don’t believe it. You can’t fool Mother Nature by ignoring or denying her. I never meant to fool anyone, especially Mother Nature. The first weird feat was finding my ball point pen. I was [...]
During these days with headlines still, unfortunately, about (pardon the expression) Trump, I recommend escaping with science, which is certainly more interesting and less depressing than current politics. Every Tuesday the Science Section of the New York Times continues to present mind-bending reports. Imagine, shrimp hop out of the water, walk over rocks until [...]
