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I met a friend at a coffee shop in Seattle today. We covered a lot of ground in the short time we had together -- politics, the state of our nation, the state of our city.

A story of misconduct surrounding a paper published last year in Science has been unraveling for over a year.&n

One of the predictable consequences of our tribalistic, hyperpartisan society is a collapse in basic decency.

I have lived in Manhattan for five years.

The ability to extract DNA from cells is a cornerstone of molecular biology. Without the ability to isolate pure DNA, there is no ability to sequence, clone or manipulate that DNA. 

When millions of Americans are battered each year by the flu – and tens of thousands of them die from it – it would seem to be a no-brainer for the average citizen to receive a simple and effective flu shot.

A baby was born from a living-donor’s transplanted uterus for the first time in the United States.

When a drug or treatment is tested for efficacy, there are two groups (at least) of people involved in the experiment. One group receives the actual drug or treatment (the experimental group).

Paolo’s wife had multiple sclerosis (MS). The cause of MS is unknown although we do know the immune system attacks the fatty covering of nerves, resulting in inefficient nerve signaling.

Given microbes' ubiquitous nature, we expect a certain amount of bacteria to be in our kitchens, on items like raw chicken and filthy dish sponges.