Can Dogs Detect Cancer?
+Nick Kai Nielsen tagged me about a recent article in The Guardian about a story where a woman’s assistance dog detected her breast cancer. The story is remarkable. “One evening in November 2011, I...
Author: Buddhini Samarasinghe
In the Spotlight, with Professor Julia Greer
Professor Julia Greer is a Materials Scientist at Caltech. She spoke to us about her research into lightweight nanomaterials which have a broad range of applications such as transport, construction and prosthetics. Julia spoke...
Pulling a Fast One on Cancer
There is a report making the rounds on social media that really needs to be explained, because as usual the media hype is distorting the findings. The article in question was published in the...
Finding Solutions: Google’s IT Residency Program
Erin Leverton and Samantha Schaevitz had a conversation with us about Google’s Information Technology Residency Program (ITRP). A summary of our conversation can be found here.
The Cancer-resistant Blind Mole Rat: Clues from the Genome
Although the Naked Mole Rat and the Blind Mole Rat have similar sounding names, they are not close relatives. The two species diverged over 70 million years ago, and blind mole rats are more...
In The Spotlight, With Erin Kane
Erin Kane, a graduate student in physical anthropology recently returned to the United states after conducting field research in Tai Forest, Cote d’Ivoire. We talked about her research interests in Diana monkeys, and also...
