Hyperlipid

I will now try and shut up about the origins of life. But first I have to summarise the idea which threw itself at me as I tidied up the las...

In the beginning there was an acidic ocean, alkaline hydrothermal fluid and a precipitated Fe/Ni sulphide catalytic interface. You can do ...

Happy Solstice all. I have to admit to having done something embarrassing. I grew some cress. Two lots in fact. One was on the dining room...

The author of the following open letter  to Medscape (I think you have to register to read, so I've copy/pasted it to make access easy),...

Another one liner, this time from Heartwire: The two new drugs, both of which are proprotein convertase subtilisin kexin 9 (PCSK9) inhibit...

Time is in short supply at the moment so no time for more coeliac stuff, however interesting. I was forwarded a link from Keir Watson to a p...

It's a very interesting time for origin of life speculation. You can look around at the work coming from Lane's group as well as the...

I just wanted to put something down about the possible early membranes used by LUCA. There is a good case to be made for leaky membranes (ce...

Well, I guess it's going to become officially OK (as if I could care less) for me to fry my egg yolks in salted butter and add a little ...

Jack Kruse sent me this link: Archaea with eukaryotic genes For those working through Nick Lanes latest book will realise (if you hadn...

From page 148 of the third edition (2000) of Freeman, Freeman and Kelly’s “The Ketogenic Diet”. Daily intake for a 13 month old child: C...

Ivor, over at thefatemperor , recently mentioned the lovely observational study, the Norfolk section of EPIC . That's where I live and i...

I thought I might put up this graph: It's from Comparison of the Atkins, Zone, Ornish, and LEARN Diets for C...

I think it is quite clear how I view insulin detemir. Kindke was unable to resist finding the link to the abstract with the diametrically op...

Morphine is a rather odd opioid analgesic. It has a complex multi-ring structure with two rather prominent hydroxyl groups which render it r...

There is a certain belief structure within obesity research which maintains that the central action of insulin is to limit appetite. Obvious...

There are occasional days at work when I get a lunch break. Sometimes it is long enough to get home and back, often it’s not. Given an hour ...