Fascinating profile of a transgender scientist on his experience and the science gap

Great piece on tough topic: Is Childhood Pertussis Vaccine Less Effective Than We Thought, by Maryn Mckenna

Deborah Blum’s on fire in this great post on a student death in a UCLA lab

Cool! In the Peruvian Amazon, there are folks who shrug off rabies. (They get bitten a lot by vampires though)

Cancer stem cells have been tracked. This is nothing less than watching tumours being born. I wonder what the cancer stem cell skeptics will think.

The sad downfall of Jonah Lehrer deepens, beginning with the revelation that he fabricated Bob Dylan quotes for his new book, leading to his resignation from the New