Guest Author • Nov 22, 2018 •
Linda Nordling In February of last year, 64 healthy adult Kenyans checked into a university residence in the coastal town of Kilifi. After a battery of medical tests, they proceeded, one by one, into a room where a doctor injected them with live malaria parasites. Left untreated, the infection could have sickened or even killed them, since malaria claims hundreds … Read More
Alison Campbell • Feb 20, 2018 •
I’ve written about MMS – the “Miracle Mineral Supplement” – several times beforeA (here and here, for example). I guess it’s a useful thing to hold up to show how something can clearly be woo – eg claims that it kills/cures practically everythingB under the sun – and yet people still buy the stuff. Buy it, and potentially … Read More
Peter Dearden • May 25, 2015 •
Oxitec's GM mosquitos may be a very effective way to control insects that carry human disease … Read More
Siouxsie Wiles • Jan 20, 2014 •
As a parent, I have watched the Ice Age movies more times than I care to admit. I quite like Sid the sloth but had no idea just how important his descendants could be in our fight against disease. Sloths are slow-moving tree-dwelling mammals found in the jungles of central and south America. They … Read More
Fabiana Kubke • Oct 02, 2013 •
(Cross-posted from Mind the Brain) Earlier this year, nominations opened for the Accelerating Science Awards Program (ASAP). Backed by major sponsors like Google, PLOS and the Wellcome Trust, and a number of other organisations, this award seeks to “build awareness and encourage the use of scientific research — published through Open Access — in transformative […] … Read More
Bryan Walker • May 23, 2011 •
Interconnectedness is a major theme of Changing Planet, Changing Health: How the Climate Crisis Threatens our Health and What We Can Do about It. Jeffrey Sachs describes the book in his preface as “a scientific detective story of the first order, told with brilliance and relish by one of the world’s great ecological detectivesâ€. The [...] … Read More
Grant Jacobs • Aug 13, 2010 •
They’re fun, eh? And the staple diet of cable TV science… Yes, I’m lowering myself to this.* Sigh. It’s Friday, a good time for something digestible in one bite. Here’s a collection from recent reading: most short, a few a little longer. This is the opening paragraph of Wikipedia’s pithy and … Read More