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Swimming In Cancer
When you have leukemia your body swims in a sea of cancer. Your organs, every part of your body that is touched by your blood is bathed in the cancer’s mutated white blood cells. Similarly, your lymphatic system that normally transports the lymph fluids that support your immune system, becomes a pathway to distribute the…
On the Use of Secondary Data for Research
Simon Robin Evans published an article in PLOS Biology on April 8th, 2016 “Gauging the Purported Costs of Public Data Archiving for Long-Term Population Studies”. The work illustrates some of the problems that emerge when even well meaning scientists jump into the data sharing debate. The article is a review of one element of the…
Sad Grandpa and the Importance of Social Networks
Apparently the internet’s “heart was broken” again by an elderly man photographed eating a lonely meal after his grandchildren failed to appear for a dinner he planned. A granddaughter took the picture and posted it on twitter and it was retweeted over 200,000 times. Ultimately this photo and the story it was picked up by news…
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James W. McNally 