Over at SciAm blogs today, make sure to check out this month's Scicurious Guest Writer, Emily Burns! She's talking about when protein folding goes bad, and how it can cause disease, particularly diseases like Cystic fibrosis. Make sure to head over and check it out!

Please head to SciAm Blogs today and welcome this month's Scicurious Guest Writer, Elizabeth Aston! She'll be telling us about the combination of energy drinks and caffeine. Energy drinks are one thing, caffeine is another, but combined? That's Loko. Head over and check it out.

Over at SciAm Blogs today, I'm hosting this month's Scicurious Guest Writer, Phil Corlett! Phil is an Assistant Professor at Yale, and is talking about the potential interaction between our sense of "self", the immune system's sense of "self", and how it might relate to psychosis. Head over and check it out!

The Scicurious Guest Writer series is BACK! And for our second guest writer, I am pleased to present Satchal Erramilli, with a piece looking back at the last 100 years of X ray crystallography! Head over and Check it out!

At SciAm Blogs today, I'm proud to present the first Scicurious Guest Writer, Nicole Baganz. She's writing about the possible link between sickness behavior and mental illness.

In the case of infection, sickness behavior is a normal response to halt the spread of the bug and help the organism get better. In the absence of an infection, however, depressive symptoms could arise from inappropriate immune system activation. Ultimately, these studies could shed light on what happens in the depressed brain and begin to erase the stigma that remains attached to mental illness.

Head over, check her out, and let her know that she did a great job! And keep an eye out, the next guest writer is just around the corner!