The (Lack of) Science Behind the Blood Type Diet
October 29, 2013 There is no current evidence to prove that blood type diets will provide beneficial health effects, despite their prevalence within the diet and health industry, according to a recent review performed by the Centre for Evidence-Based Practice, Belgian Red Cross-Flanders and published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. In this systematic …
Population Genetics
Scientists have merged the two disciplines of genetics and evolution into population genetics that demonstrates how gene frequencies change in populations, studies genetic variation, and applies genetic change to evolutionary theory. Any study of natural populations usually demonstrates genetic change. That finding seems perfectly reasonable in the light of natural selection theory. Yet basic Medelian …
Positive and Negative Roles of the Lyn Tyrosine Kinase in BCR Function
Anthony L. DeFranco University of California, San Francisco The B cell antigen receptor (BCR) regulates B cell development, tolerance to self, activation, and continued survival. Antigen-induced oligomerization of the BCR leads to phosphorylation by the Src-family tyrosine kinases Lyn, Fyn, and Btk of key tyrosines within the Ig- a and Ig- b subunits of the …
My Telescope
12 years ago I purchased my Telescope for my mobile observatory with no previous knowledge of Telescopes. I asked around on various forums and got excellent help from Dr. Yigal Patel the owner of the Cosmos store in Ramat Gan. I chose a telescope that was light enough for me to set up myself in …
“Looking Back at the Blue Planet”
We are now used to being impressed by the beautiful astronomical photographs in magazines, newspapers and on TV. For me however, there are three photographs which stunned me when I first saw them, and still intrigue me today. The first was taken back in 1968 by the crew of Apollo 8. It shows the Earth …