One vaccination against TB, diabetes, and MS?
Science News reports on the BCG vaccine, short for Bacillus Calmette-Guérin. Originally, it was a treatment to prevent tuberculosis, but now it’s showing promise for […]
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Science Art: Dynamometer, 3 Feb 1865
Click to embiggen A dynamometer, illustrated by (or for) the United States Sanitary Commission in 1865. A dynamometer measures power output. For an engine, it […]
Why can’t pharma companies afford to make life-saving drugs?
Nature asks a disturbing question about how we create and distribute what are arguably the most important scientific projects of all – the antibiotics and […]
Spinning yarn from human skin
PhysOrg reminds me here of a piece of jewelry my mother won at an auction, which she then gave to me to give to the […]
A llama antibody.
I’m trying to keep COVID-19 research to a minimum here, just because there’s so much of it everywhere, but I couldn’t resist this piece from […]
Stanford’s butt-reading toilet knows how healthy you are.
CNET (among others) has brought us news at the confluence of two contemporary concerns: Are we carrying germs we don’t know about? and … Just […]
We’re cooler than we used to be. Literally – human body temperatures have dropped.
The Wall Street Journal reports that since the average human body temperature of 98.7 degrees F was first established, the average human has gotten taller, […]
The keto diet could protect against flu.
Science Immunology has a study that shows a low-carb, high-fat diet similar to Atkins and other keto diets seems to confer protection against flu and […]
Aspirin against air pollution? Really?
Science Daily takes a few deep breaths and plunges into a Columbia/Harvard/Boston University study that’s found that aspirin can protect lungs against damage from air […]
CDC report: One in 16 US women were forced into having sex for the first time
TW, as they say. New Scientist has some hard numbers on some difficult truths, offering data on just how many women lost their virginity in […]
Anti-aging electrotherapy zaps earlobes to reset nerves.
Eurekalert has details on a new anti-aging system that, according to University of Leeds researchers, resets older folks’ autonomic nervous system by stimulating the vagus […]
Science Art: X-Ray Lab, cartoon from Resonance: Journal of Scientific Education, August 1996.
Click to embiggen It’s funny, see? See? This cartoon appeared in Resonance between an article called “Genetics to Genetic Algorithms: Solution to Optimisation Problems Using […]
A computer beat doctors at diagnosing lung cancer.
The New York Times pits man against machine in a CT-scan interpretation challenge – and the machine won. An AI got fewer false positives and […]
We’ve got a bedside bioprinter to replace your injured skin directly on you.
Science Daily passes the word from Wake Forest about medical engineers who’ve come up with a functional bioprinter that can replace real skin layer by […]
Diet drugs can prevent malaria and encephalitis – by making mosquitos less hungry.
Nature reports on a lifesaving use for diet drugs: Female Aedes aegypti, like other mosquito species, feed on blood to get the protein they need […]