Disease

I described two approaches: (1) combining surface proteins from different coronaviruses on a scaffold, and (2)  focusing on conserved regions of the virus that tend not to mutate.

“A complex system is made up of very large numbers of interacting components, asymmetrically organized. Some such systems operate somewhere between order and disorder—“on the edge of chaos,” ….

Two friends independently emailed me a recent

A Confusion of Terms Discussing stress and anxiety invites confusion, as these diagnostic terms are often interchanged, and their causes poorly identified.

Fifteen hundred adults were surveyed by the Annenberg Public Policy Center (APPC) of the University of Pennsylvania in early October. The results are breathtaking, and not in a good way.

Sickle cell disease, SCD, is a genetic mutation in hemoglobin that alters the shape of blood cells, making them sickle-shaped rather than round.

What Doesn’t Kill Us, Makes Us Stronger? Maybe not.

More than 60 years after its discovery, the cancer drug vincristine still works. It just doesn't work in the same way that has been taught to physicians and cancer researchers for decades.

The study, currently a preprint, was conducted by the CDC and FDA using the Vaccine Safety Datalink (VDS).

The peak load of COVID virions was established early in the pandemic. Peak loads occurred at essentially the same time individuals manifested symptoms.