by Christy Haynes I am a TED enthusiast. TED is an organization that describes itself as a “nonpartisan nonprofit devoted to spreading ideas, usually in the form of short, powerful talks.” Chances are you’ve seen a …
Blogs
Nanopartículas que suministran fármacos a través de la piel
Blog original en ingles por Denise N. Williams Traducido por Joel Hernandez Editado por Becky Rodriguez ¿Sabía usted que la piel es el órgano más grande del cuerpo? Cubre alrededor de 1,8 metros cuadrados1. Sirve …
Nanoparticles Delivering Drugs Through the Skin
by Denise Williams edited by Alicia McGeachy Did you know that the skin is the body’s largest organ? It covers about 1.8 square meters!1 It serves as the body’s outermost protective layer by limiting the …
Las nanopartículas en el tratamiento del cáncer
Blog original en ingles por EHPURDY Traducido por Joel Hernandez Editado por Becky Rodriguez Aunque la nanomedicina puede parecer como algo que se ve en una película de ciencia ficción, ya se está utilizando para …
Magnetic Nanoparticles in Cancer Treatment
by Ellen Purdy edited by Joe Buchman Although nanomedicine may sound like something out of a science fiction film, it is already being put to use in treating a range of human illnesses. Magnetic nanoparticles …
Bob’s Beautiful Blue Glacier
by Bob Hamers Recently I had the fortune to visit the state of Alaska. While there, I took a boat trip around the Kenai Peninsula, where there are glaciers moving from the Harding Icefield toward …
What’s in a Unit Anyway? Part 2: When is a Kilogram Not a Kilogram?
by Mike Schwartz In my last post, I told you about how scientists measure amazingly cool things that can be vastly different in size, like elementary particles or very distant dwarf planets and their moons. …
What’s in a Unit Anyway? Part 1: From Protons to Galaxies
by Mike Schwartz If you’re like me, you often find yourself thinking about random things. For example, just the other day I was thinking to myself, “what’s the diameter of a gold nanoparticle* in light …
Así habló Paracelso*
Blog original en inglés por Joel Pedersen Traducido por Jeremy Miller Theophrastus Phillippus Aureolus Bombastus (¡ay!) von Hohenheim, el médico, alquimista y fundador de la toxicología suizo de la época renacentista más conocido como Paracelso (Figura 1), lo dijo …
Thus Spake Paracelsus*
by Joel Pedersen The Swiss Renaissance physician, alchemist and founder of toxicology Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus (!) von Hohenheim, better known as Paracelsus (Figure 1), said it well: “All substances are poisons; there is none …