DISCLAIMER: I used to read, close a book and forget about it. To improve my writing and also my critical analysis, I started writing pseudo-reviews about books I enjoyed reading. Essays in the history of embryology and biology, by Jane M. Oppenheimer (Or an essay about the usefulness of reading historical papers and books when…

Autobiographies of mid-century famous biologists (e.g. What Mad Pursuit [1], Embryologist: My Eight Decades In Developmental Biology [2]) offer nostalgia distillates: fairy tale-like scientific quests involving lots of witty correspondence, endless conversations on the grass of an Ivy League Institution, and pub crawling with colleagues to unveil the mysteries of life. When not so many…

Scientific communication around the recent pandemic has been much debated. Some scientific public figures proved to be wrong and safety measures such as mask-wearing and surface contamination had to be revised as coronavirus-related research studies were increasing. Compared to the standard timescale at which scientific results are endorsed and published, this pandemic left no time…

A short review by Jonathan Lambert dissects the issue of diversity in genomic studies. In this type of studies called GWAS (genome-wide association studies), scientists have to elect a cohort of individuals to be able to statistically link a disease to genetic traits. It turns out that most of the cohorts are made of white…