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Ippei Kawano


The Goose That Laid the Age of Reason
Jan Hus, Czech Secularism, and the Forgotten Christian Roots of Modern Individualism If you wander through the beautiful streets of...
Ippei Kawano
May 1011 min read
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The Elegant Chemistry of the Krebs Cycle
Dedicated to all the medical students who never understood what was going on... In the human body, the main job of the Krebs cycle is to...
Ippei Kawano
Feb 195 min read
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Brain-centered regulation of physiology
Vagus hotline One of the most fascinating reports from last year came from Charles Zucker's team regarding the interaction between the...
Ippei Kawano
Jan 143 min read
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Cash Therapy
Complaints from Ph.D. holders about poor job prospects have become increasingly common these days. Indeed, a Ph.D. is the most advanced...
Ippei Kawano
Oct 24, 20243 min read
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Acetylation and aging
For a very long time, aging was considered to be largely the result of wear and tear accumulating over a lifetime — be it free radicals,...
Ippei Kawano
Sep 13, 20245 min read
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Lactate — the misunderstood "acid"
“Lactic acidosis” is among the more basic clinical concepts taught in medical school, but this term is hugely misleading. In our uni’s...
Ippei Kawano
Sep 13, 20242 min read
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Why do neurons adapt? Or, the art of making acronyms
To be verbally descriptive is to be informationally inefficient. All that space, time, and cognitive effort wasted on words! Most books...
Ippei Kawano
Sep 13, 20246 min read
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