Biomedicine & Biotech

The banging on the door at 3 in the morning of March 12, 1938, by Gestapo agents was fierce. They were rousing Otto Loewi out of bed to drag him off to jail. His crime? Loewi was Jewish.

A new study in the journal Aging found that people, especially men, who have higher blood levels of the amino acid tyrosine tended to have slightly shorter lifespans.

These events took place sometime around the turn of the century – this century that is. I was working at Wyeth (now part of Pfizer) as their head of anti-infectives. I was and remain passionate about finding solutions to antimicrobial resistance.

A recent piece in the New York Times detailed the panorama if bioweapons conceived by AI.

As I've written before, chemistry has a language problem.

Aside from drug commercials, I’m hard-pressed to think of anything more annoying than female mosquitoes. Before I’m mobbed by a swarm of women crying sexism, it’s worth noting that only female mosquitoes bite. That’s not opinion—it’s biology.

              If only it were April 1st... But what follows is real.

Hardly a day goes by without a news story about microplastics. They’re everywhere — including your body, the ocean, and drinking water.

Here’s how it works: The pill looks like a regular capsule. Inside, alongside your medication, is a tiny rolled-up antenna made of safe, biodegradable zinc and cellulose, plus a micro RF chip.