“I was working on understanding lipids, and I met a fellow working on the genes underlying lipid metabolism,” he said. “It was pure serendipity.” —…
The COVID-19 pandemic began in Wuhan, China, near the open wet market in the city. Although about a fourth of the early cases had no…
Am I talking about a crime drama? A political battle? People in a troubled city? Nope, I am talking about the microbes in your gut…
Professors Michael Norris and Karen Maxwell at the University of Toronto describe a protein found in bacteria, ring-interacting pore 1 (Rip1), that serves as a…
Sadly, my fears are already being manifested in a growing measles outbreak in South Carolina. The outbreak began on October 2nd and appears to be…
Emilie Thompson is a physician practicing in Baltimore in the field of hematology and oncology. As a doctor, she worries about the radical steps the…
Whooping cough cases are out of control in the United States – as of December 20th, there were 27,871 cases and 13 deaths. In 2024,…
It’s shaping up to be an active influenza season this year. At the end of the year, infections are accelerating, and we just hit a…
A newly published study in the journal Gastroenterology by Peter Rimmer, Fan Zhang, and colleagues digs into the observation that there is a shift in…
On November 22nd, I wrote a post about the alarmingly low vaccination rate against measles in certain parts of this country. This is incredibly dangerous,…