“The advance here is that we can detect any infection from any body fluid, without special handling or processing for each distinct body fluid.” Amazing! | learn more
Eleanor, a PhD student at Cambridge, makes fun videos explaining science. In this video, she explains BEAM-201, a new CAR-T base editing development candidate. She does a great job! | learn more
“The bodies and brains of fathers, not just mothers, are transformed through the love and labour of raising a child.” | learn more
The most widespread theory is that a type of plaque builds up in the brain to cause Alzheimer’s, but no treatments to remove the plaque have shown good outcomes fighting the disease. Maybe the plaque is an immune response to […]
Get moving, eat less often, eat stressed plants, and expand your thermoneutral zone. Sinclair is one of the foremost researchers on longevity. The intervention around stressed plants is intriguing. “My philosophy is to look for plants and foods made from […]
The researchers studied Caloric Restriction (i.e. eating less). I wonder if there are consultancies for naming scientific studies with the cleverest of acronyms. This is a 24-month randomized controlled trial with 218 participants. Strongly worded conclusion: “Overall, CALERIE 2 illustrates […]
Will we solve our energy challenges with one big innovation, or a series of small ones? Cooking oil alone won’t do the trick globally, but incremental gains can stack up. “Scientists at Australia’s RMIT have developed a tiny sponge with […]
Wow! “In a paper published recently … the [MIT] team reports on an AI model that distinguishes asymptomatic people from healthy individuals through forced-cough recordings, which people voluntarily submitted through web browsers and devices such as cellphones and laptops.” | learn more
I regularly allow my children to immerse themselves in dirt, and luckily this study makes me feel great about it. “Finnish researchers just published the first big test of the “biodiversity hypothesis”—that exposure to the microbes in dirt is good […]
A couple weeks ago I shared a recent study showing extreme benefits of vitamin D for Covid-19 patients (or maybe the extreme detriments of vitamin D deficiency). More on the curious case of vitamin D, and the murky world of understanding science. | learn […]