There was a young man, Bob, in 1949, a WWII bomber pilot who was getting on with his life after the war. One day, he…
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,…
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,…
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…