SOS: Save our Science - Save our Salmon

This is a story that's been going for a long while. The concerns over the effects of fish farming on wild fish populations. Also it's nice to take the science outside for a change. This new research is quite interesting and was well reported. Although the actual findings still need a lot of work.

A sudden population crash in wild salmon during 2002 caused mass panic for the authorities in Canada. This coincided with closer monitoring of farmed salmon, and resulted in the blame being placed on parasites transferred from farmed fish. The phenomenon has drawn the attention of many researchers and a new study appears to show that although there is transfer of parasitic sea lice between farmed and wild salmon it cannot be responsible for the decline in population.

SOS: Save our Science - Inside Endometriosis

I wrote this after reading the BBC article about the same paper. The work was very poorly explained, and the findings were completely mistranslated. However, this time the original paper was pretty good, although filled with statistics (Bleh!)

All women hate periods, but a small percentage have it much worse than others. They suffer from endometriosis; severe pains and poor fertility throughout their reproductive life. The illness is often passed down through families, so must be partially dependent on genes. A new study has identified where some of these genes may occur.