Loading the player… The U.S. government scientist who helped design one of the first COVID-19 vaccines and then tackled skepticism of the shots in communities of color is moving to Harvard in June. Kizzmekia Corbett of the National Institutes of Health will take her research into next-generation vaccines for coronaviruses to the Harvard T.H. Chan School of… Read More »
Babies under six months can develop type 1 diabetes, and the condition may begin to take root before they are born, according to scientists. It was previously thought infants who are less than six months old could only develop neonatal diabetes – which is caused by a genetic mutation that affects the pancreas cells which… Read More »
Today in news-that’s-not-really news: Science officially confirms flirting works. (Science = a study conducted by researchers from the University of Kansas). But actually, there’s more to the okay/duh/obvious results. In addition to confirming that flirting is definitely A Thing and aids in showing romantic interest in someone, that same research, now published in the Journal… Read More »
Key unresolved questions warranting research priority include: How does LDL cholesterol elevation with carbohydrate restriction. The metabolic effects of a ketogenic diet can have special relevance to oncology. For me this just reinforces the obvious; a healthy balanced diet is the best approach to obtaining and maintaining ddiet healthy body. The keto diet is one… Read More »
A breakthrough in fertility science by researchers from Bristol and Mexico has shattered the universally accepted view of how sperm ‘swim’. More than three hundred years after Antonie van Leeuwenhoek used one of the earliest microscopes to describe human sperm as having a “tail, which, when swimming, lashes with a snakelike movement, like eels in… Read More »
According to the World Health Organization, there are 18 candidate vaccines in clinical evaluation globally. Researchers at University of Oxford said this week they have vaccinated 8,000 people in the UK as part of a Phase 3 trial. Yet there are still major hurdles to jump and more work to be done. No vaccines have… Read More »