But just having one X chromosome isn't normal developmentally either (see Turner syndrome). You still need an X chromosome from the male. Plus a copy of those 22 other chromosomes.

People who work with lab rats probably do! I sex baby mice all the time. I never mention this at cocktail parties. Maybe if I had a catchy phrase like Rat Wrangler? Mouse....yeah I'm lost.

Oh man the video explains how the groom is afraid of heights but it's what the bride wanted. As a fellow height avoider, I would've felt completely justified in wanting to keep my feet on the ground.

And I would be offended if someone taped their eyes back to look Asian. Jesus Christ my eyes look nothing like that and I am all too aware how it's associated with other stereotypes.

It's not super rare (although still the minority) where I grew up (California). I have to say I love my name (I only have the one Chinese name). I love the meaning behind it since it says so much about my family's history and the choices and sacrifices they made to move to the US.

I completely agree with you and with the sentiment of the clip. I just wanted to point out that the burning roots are an urban legend.

I do! All of my relatives in China. And they're fairly well off people living in a major city (Shanghai). So I understand the doubt. Although as others have said, still believable if it's written by a political prisoner.

Ugh I have the same issue with my mother. She talks about how much she viscerally hates MO. When I press her on it she says she doesn't know why, but just something about looking at her face makes her so angry. Hmmmm, Mom, is it cause she's black?! Sigh.

Maybe you're just criticizing the article title, in which case ignore me. But the authors were much more about pinpointing the factors within the blood mediating this rather than focusing on whole blood transfusion. And there was some human data (it seems like it's pretty damn hard to get into Nature without some).…

Well, if you look at the recent Nobel prizes in Phys/Med, there are a lot of instances of the lead author also being awarded the prize along with their mentor. 2009, 2008, 2006, 2004, and the rest I was too lazy to look up.

Well, I wouldn't be surprised if Yamanaka did in fact spearhead the research. It looks like he was a fairly young PI (his first last author paper was in 2003), and at least in the states, new PIs tend to be very, very heavily involved in the labwork. Plus the 2006 Cell paper only had one other author contributing…

Hi! Fellow Asian-American from the bay area here!

The most well studied method of immune protection from mother's milk is from the presence of antibodies. These antibodies survive the digestive process and coat the gut of the infant and it's been shown in repeated studies to have a protective effect against gut associated pathogens such as rotaviruses which still…

I love this study. The scale of how many samples they had to go through is mind boggling (11,174!). So much data! The bio nerd in me is salivating.

Haha, yes, um, sorry that was me. I can't resist spreading The Creepy. Nature is so weird (and awesome).

I just read this SciAm article on turtle penises/penes and I can't look at them the same way again. [blogs.scientificamerican.com]

Noooo polls are closed. Damn being on the west coast. I always feel like I'm late to the party >.<

Starting the a set by bursting out of a picture of a woman's vagina inside a giant hamster ball, and then proceed to roll over the audience while singing and confetti flying everywhere? Yes the Flaming Lips are arrogant but that's a fucking awesome show!!

My grandmother has an in with a local hospital in China where she gets other people's placenta to dry and eat. It still horrifies me along with her drinking her own urine. Who knows if those placentas are carrying some sort of pathogen?!