gah, bastard fucking periods.. no wonder i felt to crap yesterday... :(
Here's something that I've just found fascinating.. so you must know by now that I love brains (human, spider, rat, pigeon, et al.) the way they tick gets my interest everyday. Though if you look into the history of neuroscience, it basically hasn't been around all that long.. really only since scans of the live and active brain were a viable option. Google does this word-use thing... I forgot what a ligand* does (molecule, attaches to larger molecules) and this popped up. It appears to coincide roughly with the age (and scale) of papers that I look back at and go "hey, no, that's not real science", because 6 people do not a test-group make. Anyway, tickled me, pretty picture to add to the synesthetic (ETA: damn, autocorrecting...) pattern o' the nature of the universe.
*If you're interested: the recent paper (observational study on ~ calcium and vitamin D influence on the menstrual cycle and, in particular, ectopic pregnancy - really interesting stuff today), that led indirectly to the paper (1997, RXR and RAR interaction with ligands, uh, essentially, I think, I haven't read this one fully yet, but the lil abstract helped me understand something about method of gene transcription). Well, should say I haven't read either of them fully because I, sadly, am not personally an institution with access to full-text medical sciences. Just find it interesting and can't afford the stupid subscriptions, so I read many abstracts. I dream of a world in which commercialism has not and cannot touch the 'pure' sciences; where information is given as freely as speech in a role-play game.