I’m not a doctor, nor do I play one on TV. I don’t have a medical background but I have done a lot of reading in an effort to better understand how medicine and disease work, mostly with a view to better understanding cancer.
At this point I understand only the basics. I still don’t know what I don’t know, but I have more of an understanding than when I started and that’s enough to go on. This post is more for my own benefit to test if I understand …

The following article describes how scientists analyzed an entire human genome from a lady with cancer and found 10 mutations which they believe may have contributed to her disease [LINK].
Cancer is not a single disease, it’s a very personal one. I will write more in a future post on what exactly is meant by this. The human genome consists of approximately 3 billion instructions (DNA base pairs). That’s a LOT of instructions and hence a requires a lot of analysis. When the scientists say they’ve found 10 mutations, they …

I took a jog this evening in my neighbourhood, an affluent area of central NJ, and was dismayed by the number of McCain/Palin signs up. Here’s a few reasons why, if I had a vote, it would be going to Obama;
John McCain graduated fifth from the bottom at Anapolis out of a class of 900 (that’s hard to do). He was a terrible pilot and has crashed many times. He was shot down in Vietnam as a result of ignoring his prescribed flight path. When his wife Carol was …