Nature echoes the call for the National Institutes of Health to create a humane retirement plan for their primate research assistants:
… Read the rest “Chimp retirement plan.”Last December, a report from the US Institute of Medicine
Scientific American’s “Science Sushi” blog rolls up some recent research connecting cat-parasite Toxoplasma gondii with human suicides:
… Read the rest “Parasites linked to suicides.”in Denmark, serum antibody
New Scientist makes one more argument for breast-feeding, with research that shows breast milk seems to wipe out the virus that causes AIDS:
… Read the rest “Mother’s milk really is safe – it kills HIV.”Previous research had hinted at breast milk’s
Discover launches a thousand new phobia cases with their expose (and I cannot do better than their headline here) Hidden Epidemic: Tapeworms in the Brain:
… Read the rest “I can honestly conceive of nothing less pleasant than this.”A blob in the brain is not the image
BBC says the disease, once thought practically eradicated, is now moving out into China from Pakistan:
… Read the rest “Polio spreads.”Polio has been found in China for the first time since 1999 after spreading from Pakistan,
The aptly named PLoS blog “The Panic Virus” brings together a few disturbing strands of information about the anti-vaccination movement and the growing threat of measles… Read the rest “Measles rising.”
National Geographic has some creepy new insights into one of nature’s creepiest reproductive strategies. The zombie ants – insects whose brains have been hijacked by the… Read the rest “The Soul of the Zombie Ant.”
This is the infectious microbe (alive? not alive? who knows?) that causes Western equine encephalitis. It’s a deadly virus.
I can remember when they said taking pictures of viruses… Read the rest “Science Art: Western Equine Encephalitis Virus Taken With Cryo-Electron Microscope”
New Scientist has microscopic video of what malaria looks like bursting into a blood cell:
… Read the rest “What infection looks like.”Jake Baum at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research in Melbourne, Australia,
The Miami Herald reports on a new front line in a genetic war against insect-borne disease:
… Read the rest “Mutant mosquitoes fight “breakbone fever.””Researchers at Oxitec Limited, an Oxford-based company, created sterile male mosquitoes by
Wired is feeling… apprehensive… about the latest progress made by the “Indian superbug” gene:
… Read the rest “Fear the superbug. Fear it.”This week, I’m at ICAAC (the annual Interscience Conference
Science Daily makes me eager to get out in the woods and get dirty. Mostly, just to dig around in the fallen leaves, but also because I might infect myself with bacteria that fights depression… Read the rest “Dirtier. Happier. Smarter.”
Wired’s Danger Room sees all, knows all, and reveals all – including the Pentagon’s plan to predict biological attacks by knowing all possible outcomes:
… Read the rest “DARPA wants Prophecy.”They’re hosting
BBC has an interesting report on the psychological dimensions of flu:
… Read the rest “Flu’s in your head.”While it seems obvious that we feel under-par when we are ill, Dr Harrison says there is more to it than just physical
A new story on the AP wire backs up one of my hobby-horse beliefs. People are using way too many antibiotics, and it’s killing us:
… Read the rest “Put the prescriptions down.”A faint stench of urine and bleach wafts from a pile of
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