A desert hike
Dr. Francis Collins is the Director of NIH and a prolific
blogger. His blogs concern medical
matters, as you might guess. I find them
interesting, well written, important, simple – and short. You could do worse than to subscribe to his
newsletter to receive his blogs via email.
To do so, go to
Tomorrow I plan to summarize one of his recent blogs
concerning stem cells. I’d do it now but
it is time to pop a beer and go watch golf on TV.
Wow! I had planned to write a learned treatise on stem cells today, in preparation for summarizing Dr. Collins’ blog on bone marrow transplants and hematopoietic (read: having to do with blood) stem cells, but first I had to learn something about them. So, like any modern scholar would do, I turned to Wikipedia – which didn’t help. Luckily, the next entry was from the NIH – and it is a winner. If you lack a Ph.D. in molecular genetics but are serious about this stuff (which I’m sure you are), you need to read this.
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