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One of the first things you learn in bacteriology is that bacteria come in different shapes. Not a huge range of shapes admittedly, but the main shapes are spherical, rod-shaped, or spiral. Spherical bacteria make sense as a sphere is a fairly simple shape to grow into and chains or colonies of bacteria allow them to spread into their environment.

#StorySaturday is a Guest Blog weekend experiment in which we invite people to write about science in a different, unusual format fiction, science fiction, lablit, personal story, fable, fairy tale, poetry, or comic strip. We hope you like it. ======= [More]

When cosmetic gynecologist Adam Ostrzenski, MD set out to discover the elusive G-spot, the part of a woman s anatomy supposedly responsible for orgasm, he followed a flawed premise but his finding announced today will undoubtedly generate frantic media coverage. The discovery of the G-spot in a lone elderly corpse and the lack of information on just what Dr. O dissected are obvious limitations of the paper in the Journal of Sexual Medicine , a peer-reviewed publication from Wiley.

The morning of my Board exams, my mother packed me a lunch comprising of seedless grapes, two Greek yogurts, a cheese sandwich, a bag of pistachio nuts, two cappuccinos, a diet coke, chocolate-covered coffee beans and a pouch of pretzels. Mum, this isn t the Hunger Games, I joked

Mitochondrial network of an endothelial cell is shown in green Research projects evolve in a fortuitous manner, often guided by a convergence of novel observations, intuition, helpful colleagues and unique personal circumstances. It is precisely this constellation that prompted two cardiologists to study the mitochondrial networks in lung cancer cells.

Image courtesy of iStockphoto/BrianAJackson More than half a million people died from cancer in the U.S. in 2011. We have many astounding advances in medicine to thank for that number not being higher

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Invisible Children’s video, Kony 2012 recently went viral with over 100 million views , earning both praise and criticism from Ugandans. A vast amount of complexity surrounds the Lords Resistance Army (LRA), and it has been suggested to use the attention as a platform to raise awareness about another issue in the region, Nodding disease. It seems relevant to move the discussion forward by examining the different healing approaches Ugandans have used regarding the LRA and Nodding disease.

The struggle between conscience and refusal, or individual rights vs. that of the community good, goes far back, and is not limited to reproductive choices.

Slide of invasive prostate adenocarcinoma, courtesy of Wikimedia Commons/NIH Circumcision might reduce a man’s risk of developing prostate cancer by 15 percent, according to new research published online March 12 in Cancer .

photo by Alecia Hoyt Photography I sport an afro or natural hair, but I use to have a perm. About a year ago, I shared my hair journey with Afrobella at Essence. com: Natural Hair Diary: Danielle N

A study led by Jonathan Tilly of the Massachusetts General Hospital overturns the decades-long idea that women are born with all the eggs they will ever have. It reports that women of reproductive age carry ovarian stem cells, meaning that they can produce new eggs. Tilly’s team, which made a similar finding in mice in 2004 , also discovered that mouse eggs derived from such stem cells can indeed be fertilized.

A while ago, I wrote about how Helicobacter pylori , the bacteria that cause stomach ulcers and are implicated in certain stomach cancers, cause the cells of the stomach wall to die . H.

Image courtesy of iStockphoto/sjlocke The number of people who die from HIV-related causes each year in the U.S. is now down to about 12,700 from a peak of more than 50,000 in the mid-1990s thanks to condom education and distribution campaigns, increased testing and improved treatments.

If you ever wondered how your body handled all those packaged ramen noodles you ate during college, this video s for you. Stefani Bardin , a TEDxManhattan fellow, wants to learn how digestion differs between food chock full of preservatives and food that can actually go bad in a day. To create this video, she and her collaborator swallowed a camera pill along with their meals (which included Gatorade and Gummi bears)