SONG: Forgotten
SONG: “Forgotten” [Download] . ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Nature, 13 Dec. 2018, “‘Transmissible’ Alzheimer’s theory gains traction “, as used in the post “Alzheimer’s can be […]
medicine
Composing the “beep” of the medical monitor.
It’s an iconic, stress-inducing sound – think about medical dramas or crime thrillers set in hospitals. And now, we bring the beep home, some of […]
Cut out cutting out the salt
Yes, it’s still controversial, but it looks like (according to The Guardian‘s reporting) that successfully lowering your salt intake might – oops – increase your […]
Rat lungworm disease spreads to American humans.
Can’t beat Science News‘ subhead for this story, which cautions us, if we want to avoid the meningitis-like symptoms, to “wash produce carefully and not […]
Lab-grown lungs have drawn breath in living pigs.
Science Alert tells us more about the researchers from University of Texas Medical Branch and their subjects – young pigs who had successful, non-rejected transplants […]
Researchers: The death toll from Hurricane Maria is 72 times higher than the official figure.
Scientific American has some unpleasant statistics emerging from a study of how many people have really died in Puerto Rico in the wake of last […]
Trained rats can detect tuberculosis.
Nice when they’re fighting the spread of disease rather than the other way around. Science News looks into how to train giant, explosive-sniffing rats to […]
Disembodied brains kept alive for 36 hours.
I’m not sure how new this science really is – it’s pigs, by the way, not people, in case you were worried – but The […]
SONG: At 6 A.M.
SONG: “At 6 A.M.” [Download] . ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Nature, 17 Apr 2018, “Medicine’s secret ingredient — it’s in the timing”, as used in the […]
Chronotherapy is the discipline of giving medicine according to your body clock.
Nature explores the data being gathered about the surprising significance of time-of-day to effective medical treatment: More than four decades of studies describe how accounting […]
Take a pill, kill mosquitoes.
NPR recently ran a story on a new use for a fairly well-known drug, ivermectin. If you have a dog or cat (or horse or […]
Caffeine actually slows some of us down – genetically.
Outside, that paragon of high-performance science, has some interesting findings from the University of Toronto, where researchers found that caffeine regularly boosts athletic performance – […]
Gut bacteria drive autoimmune diseases.
Science Daily reports on a Yale study that has found that intestinal bacteria can trigger autoimmune responses (like those in lupus) – and targeting those […]
We’re treating cervical cancer with cyborg sperm.
New Scientist spells out how we’re able to use sperm cells to carry chemotherapy drugs directly to tumors: Haifeng Xu at the Leibniz Institute for […]
Acupuncture seems to work to ease cancer pain.
Nature steps into the alternative-medicine fray with research showing that acupuncture significantly reduces pain for female breast-cancer patients: Oncologists who conducted a trial of real […]