Tagged: human

Performance Enhancing Drugs

You’ve heard about them, but do you how they work? Or why they suck? Let’s watch the science behind performance enhancers, including steroids, blood doping, and that stuff supposedly made out of deer antlers. You’ll never look at cheating the same way again!

Prosthetics As Works Of Art (18 pictures)

Bespoke Innovations, founded by industrial designer Scott Summit and orthopedic surgeon/engineer Kenneth Trauner, MD, creates custom fairings, which are panels that fit over existing prosthetics. They can be easily swapped out, too, so you could switch between ornate metal or leather fairings for a nice evening out and lightweight polymer fairings for more physical activities.

How to sequence the human genome

Your genome, every human’s genome, consists of a unique DNA sequence of A’s, T’s, C’s and G’s that tell your cells how to operate. Thanks to technological advances, scientists are now able to know the sequence of letters that makes up an individual genome relatively quickly and inexpensively. Mark J. Kiel takes an in-depth look at the science behind the sequence.