had worked.Mr. Mercado hurried around the lab to share the news. Given the times, there were no hugs, no high-fives. And he did not bask in glory for long. Making a vaccine demands patience, attention to detail — and a tolerance for bitter failure.“Yeah, I’m excited, but I’m also thinking about the next step,” Mr.…
Dr. Matija Snuderl has spent the last couple of months poring over tissue samples collected from the bodies of the recently departed.As a neuropathologist at NYU Langone Medical Center in New York City, he’s usually diagnosing brain tumors and other brain diseases. But this effort goes beyond his typical duties: Snuderl is among a group…
By Michael Le Page Mitochondria, the power sources inside our cells, can now be gene editedStocktrek Images, Inc. / Alamy Mitochondria, the structures inside our cells that burn food to produce energy, have been gene-edited for the first time. A new kind of “base editor” can make precise changes to the genomes of mitochondria, opening…
Some states are allowing restaurants to move back to indoor dining. But is it a safe idea to dine in right now? People are definitely getting mixed signals about restaurant dining. In states such as Arizona and Tennessee, public health officials are urging people to stay home amid rising caseloads. Meanwhile, those states are offering…
Where there are illegal smokes, there's a fireRamaphosa is also said to not have provided answers to concerns over whether Police Minister Bheki Cele had the capacity to deal with the increased sales of tobacco and alcohol on the black market.Dlamini-Zuma used the meeting to once again raise issues against the sale of tobacco, telling…
3 min read ALMOST ALL OF the peptides sold on the gray market come with some questionable scientific data. As noted in MH’s peptide guide, a lot of health claims come from experiments that are designed poorly, work from a single lab with glaring conflicts of interest, or only feature testing in cells or animals.
The Trump administration is forging ahead with a controversial plan to collect the medical records of millions of federal workers and retirees, as well as their family members. The Office of Personnel Management said in a notice posted last month that it will begin routinely collecting identifiable, personal health information on more than 8 million
2 min read PEPTIDES HAVE EXPLODED in popularity in the past few years. While none have been more popular than GLP-1s (yes, they’re actually peptides too), another contender is emerging as a possible treatment for obesity. Meet the MOTS-C peptide. If you’ve crawled on the biohacking threads on Reddit, you might have seen it mentioned