Cell0908 blog topics

Are you the kind that is doing pretty good in your life but would like to do something much more meaningful? Say an engineer working on shiny objects which pay the bills but feels that you can use part of your energy, time and knowledge on something much more impactful? Call it health, economy, social issues, our planet...

A back of the envelop to biology, the target of this blog is to help someone with little knowledge in biotech, ID opportunities for contribution and cover the knowledge map as fast as possible (the 80% of the learning curve :) ). It is not to create new material but to point you to the answer (curate) or at least the direction. Will divide each blog in different levels of info (separating top from deeper) so you can stop right at the level of interest (call it the highlights), without having to read unnecessary info. In the pages, the links in bold red are basically the answer with the rest being support stuff  which you can skip if you prefer to save your curiosity bandwidth for something else :)

All is (and will always be) work in progress (you will see half way cooked pages published if I think they already bring up useful info). I am writing this as I am doing that for myself (as I am no expert either) in case someone wants to follow my footsteps. Of course, the knowledge map is very broad so your topics and mine may not overlap, but I list here the ones I work on (as I cover them) or plan to cover (if you do so, let me know and I'll just link to your page or add here, giving you credit, whatever you prefer):

1. Biology FAQ (all are answers to questions but here I put some to open the appetite)
2. Bio sizes - Just a small post to put in perspective the size of different biological things.
3. Molecules and more molecules
4. Human body cells FAQ: how many cells are there, how often they split, how many different types... 
5. Basics on immune system
6. Stem cells
7. Metabolism: calories, etc.
8. Life sciences instrumentation and In Vitro Diagnostics (IVD, aka "all those tests that your doctor ask for you when you are sick"... and more)
9. DNA Sequencing
10. Developmental biology: ever wondered how we go from an egg to a full body?
11. Why we age
12. Cancer
13. Drug delivery
14. End-of-life rallies: recovering just to die soon after.
15. Anatomy/Human body systems:
1. Shoulder
2. Renal/Urinary
1. Kidney
2. Prostate
3. Urethra
3. Circulatory:
1. Capillary network
4. Skin
16. Different science branches
17. Good article on "When does life end?"
18. Jargon (work in progress, just a collection of terms, probably don't recommend just reading that but hey, knock yourself out...)
19. Clinical trials
20. Legal (medical devices, drugs... approval)
21. Reimbursement/costs
22. Links (some of them are treasures)

Fortunately there is a lot of innovation on this so check out the date** as I am sure it'll get quickly outdated and I can't keep up... :)

For more background on this blog, check this FAQ.

A final note, many of the posts may cross subjects, touching info that could fall on several posts. For instance, prostate anatomy may not warrant a single out post only for that (one can just read Wikipedia) but may show up in relation to prostate cancer or when talking about prostatitis. So, I recommend if searching for something specific, to use the "search" box.

Cheers!

** Don't you hate when articles in the Internet don't post the date?!? It is funny to read "next year the real state cost will increase by 10%" but not be able to find what year they are referring to. Anyhow, one of my many pet peeves...

Last update: 1/14/2023