Body in Mind

I always feel a bit embarrassed when I partake in blatant self-promotion; however, as this blog post aims to foster discussion rather than self-promote I hope to ease my guilty […]

I recently read an interesting article from Vraceany et al titled “Less specific arm illnesses”. The authors make some very good points about what are frequently futile clinical approaches. However, […]

The University of South Australia runs these public lectures called the Knowledge Works series. The community here seems to enjoy these lectures and it is, in my view, a terrific […]

I must have been a very good boy last year because Santa brought me some lovely books. One of these was “Naming Nature” by Carol Kaesuk Yoon and it outlines […]

To tweet or not to tweet, that is the question. Nature journal recently put out “Peer review: Trial by Twitter: Blogs and tweets are ripping papers apart within days of […]

BIM invited me to add my “two pennyworth” (two cents worth for the rest of you!) following Lorimer’s series of excellent blogs. Despite his protestation there is no going back……., […]

A new blog has appeared that we think is worth checking out.  Called theICECReam.org, it is being run by some of the star recent PhD graduates from the George Institute […]

In this, the oddly named 4th part of this little series, I am trying to get my head around the role of cytokines in facilitating long term potentiation and nurturing […]

The last post discussed the role of T cells and T cell-derived IL-4, an anti-inflammatory cytokine. This post will focus on other inflammatory cytokines, in particular IL-1, IL-6 and TNF-α.  […]

A common way to investigate what role particular biological markers play is to breed (in the loosest sense of the word – ie genetically engineer) an animal that doesn’t have […]