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there might be some overlap between these causes. Read more

A bad idea. If these mice don’t get hangovers, there’s nothing to stop them from getting drunk every night.
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There was an outbreak in Wisconsin reported just a few weeks ago. Read more

The ability to recover and sequence human genomes from over the past forty thousand years or so has really expanded our knowledge of human history that didn’t get written down. And going further back, we know a lot more about human evolution now than we could have before the genomics revolution.
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“No animal that does roll seems to use it as a primary means of locomotion”

They’re real! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoop_snake Read more

I was once considering retiring there, but maybe not, if they have disease carrying biting iguanas! Read more

So if I just pack some weed-killer, I should be fine against any rampaging rose-monsters?
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Everybody can help with this. Don’t demand an antibiotic every time you have a cold. It won’t get you better any faster and it contributes to the problem. Read more

So if I’m remembering correctly, bone marrow produces T-cells & macrophages, etc., so I suppose it would make sense that they’d have some “memory” of where they originated and the thymus only adds to that and doesn’t fully reprogram them to turn on themselves. Read more

I guess you could count T-VEC if you squint a little, but it only works locally. It has to be injected into the tumor and doesn’t really have systemic effect which makes it much less useful and not really much better than other things that have the same effect like radiation, alcohol injection, cryotherapy,… Read more

Good write up as usual, Ed, but I have to debate a couple of things you said. Read more

Their experimental vaccine is meant to boost protection in immunocompromised people against three of the most common groups of fungi known to cause fatal infections in humans: Pneumocystis, Aspergillus, and Candida. Read more

We won’t have to worry about fungi turning humans into “zombies” to infect others, people will get it and go about their lives as is. Just look at the past several years. Read more

I for one, welcome our new fungus overlords. Read more

I have convince myself we (every other living thing) are all just food for mycelia who created the environment like a terrarium and are possibly even interstellar. Read more

More evidence that biology is very complex and can not be reduced to evening news friendly soundbites. Read more

“One of the examples can be interaction which starts as mutual social play, when both cats want to play and are enjoying the interaction, but then one of them stops feeling like that and the character of interaction changes into an intermediate category or even an agonistic one.” Read more

I just think this article is an excellent excuse to post pictures of our own cats... :+)