[En Español] Time to go back to math class and into a world where a coffee mug and a donut are the same thing. If you ignore distances and shapes, and instead focus on continuity and relations, a donut can easily be morphed into a coffee mug, making them “topologically equivalent”. The hole is the […]
Tag Archives: methods
April
23
I Can See it in Your Face: Facial Expressions in Mice
posted by Drew Schreiner
How do you know what an animal is feeling? Unfortunately, you can’t ask a dog, mouse, or fly how they are feeling or what they are thinking. This is one of the chief problems in animal research – we just don’t have ready access to their internal thoughts and feelings. This inability to access the […]
April
20
A Crisp(r) Explanation of Biology’s Coolest New Tool
posted by Caroline Sferrazza
[En español] If perusing the headlines is a regular part of your daily routine, you’ve probably noticed that one acronym has been exceedingly popular in the Science and Technology section for last couple of years: CRISPR. Even once you figure out what CRISPR stands for – Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats – it’s not […]
January
28
Dawn of the DREADD
posted by Drew Schreiner
[En Español] There are few things I find more satisfying than a good acronym, and DREADD or Designer Receptor Exclusively Activated by a Designer Drug has got to be my favorite. The name is just so evocative. Whenever I think about DREADDs, I find myself picturing some sort of Star Wars villain; maybe due to […]
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