Less invasive method to remove donor kidney, the confluence of medicine and architecture, a professor assesses the value of the GRE by taking the test, new visualizations of DNA...

  • How Twins Go Bad or: The Thing Inside
    Twins are already kinda weird, and on occasion they can be really weird.
  • DNA Coiling, Replication, Transcription and Translation
    Despite what genetics textbooks may want you to believe, visualizing DNA is a tough feat—a challenge that has been made all the easier with this fantastic infosthetic visualization.
  • Cardiopulmonary Spatialization
    Architecture and medicine are not often combined, but when you get down to it there are certain features in the built environment that can be magnificently applied. As described by the author, “It is the megastructure as medical cocoon, architecture designed to stimulate the human nervous system.”
  • Testing the Test
    Have you ever wanted your professor to suffer through their tests? One English professor sort of did exactly that by taking the GRE to assess its value. (via 3qd)
  • Donor kidney removed via vagina
    Doctors have developed a new, less invasive, method to remove donor kidneys.

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