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,…
Are you curious about the levels of illness in your city, state, or the whole country? There are now public web pages that publish tracking…
Insulin resistance is a major problem in the US and is a hallmark of type 2 diabetes. Over 34 million Americans are living with type…
The takeover of AI is upon us! AI can now take all our jobs, is the click-bait premise you hear from the news. While I…
Professor Meng Dong and his laboratory have created a probiotic that can metabolize alcohol quickly and maybe prevent some of the adverse effects of alcohol…
COVID-19. I suspect that was when I was exposed to the virus. I was in the SARS-CoV-2 monitoring program and was being tested weekly for…
The cell can create high-energy electrons from all sorts of sources and convert them into ATP. It needs to do this to grow. This animation…
Here is an example figure from the textbook demonstrating how enzymes affect reactions. This animation helps the learner understand the physical chemistry of biological reactions.…