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Sphygmomanometer

Sphygmomanometer

My kids are proud that their great-great-great uncle (on my wife’s side) was a physician and professor who helped invent the sphygmomanometer, also known as the uncomfortable blood pressure cuff that you experience when you go to your doctor’s office for a check up.  This relative was one of the many physicians and scientists who […]

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The Microbiome Project

The Microbiome Project

Have you ever taken time to consider the amazing diversity of bacteria that live inside of you? The Human Food Project and the American Gut Project are trying to map our inner ecosystem or microbiome (the trillions of bacteria that we carry in and on our bodies, out numbering our cells by a factor of […]

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