Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology

Messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) is in the news these days because of mRNA vaccines . But how was mRNA discovered? One reason I'm inte...

Over the last few years, I’ve been contributing to a group called  Physics in Medicine . It focuses on how physics contributes to, and indee...

Russ Hobbie and I describe the bidomain model of cardiac tissue in Section 7.9 of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology . The bid...

“ How Bright is a Firefly? ” by David Silver. My favorite science journal is the American Journal of Physics . I was browsing through recent...

Marcello Malpighi. When discussing distances and sizes in Chapter 1 of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology , Russ Hobbie and I w...

Magnetic Stimulation Using Microcoils: A Skeptical Review. Over the last decade I’ve written a lot in this blog about magnetic stimulation o...

Physics with Illustrative Examples from Medicine and Biology , by Benedek and Villars. George Benedek passed away on July 5 at the age of 9...

MKUltra (pronouced M-K-ultra) was a covert  Central Intelligence Agency  research program carried out between 1953 and 1973 to investigate ...

Tomorrow we celebrate our country’s 250th birthday; the United States Semiquincentennial . Happy 4th of July to you all. I hope you have so...

“Methodological Guidelines  for Circadian Modeling  of Daylight Saving Time: Application to the United States” Most mornings I get an email ...