Diana Gitig
Wheat, nuts and shellfish trigger allergic reactions for many people. Why don’t other foods?
One of the adaptive immune system’s primary jobs is recognizing foreign substances in our bodies and unceremoniously rejecting them by ...
Plague genome offers clues about origins of Black Death pandemic
Yersinia pestis, the subject of [Barbara Bramanti’s] research, is the bacterium responsible for three bubonic plague pandemics over human history ...
Can llamas give us a universal flu vaccine?
Llama antibodies are different from ours. Our antibodies are a mix of two pairs of proteins, heavy and light, wrapped ...
GMO crops so efficient at killing pests, adjacent non-GMO crops are also protected
One of the great purported boons of GMOs is that they allow farmers to use fewer pesticides, some of which are ...
CRISPR may open door to personalized treatment of cancer
One thing cells must do in order to become cancerous is to overthrow the normal checks on their growth. As ...
Genetics might help grow perfect cup of coffee
Coffee is in danger around the world, but experimental farmers want to save it by finding a variety that can ...
Humans have innate ability to assess probability, but odds are we’re a bit off
Humans have an innate ability to assess probability, as evidenced by a recent study of remote populations in Guatemala, but ...
Antibiotics starting to backfire? Here’s one possible solution
Current antibiotics may be reaching the end of their utility. They are often kill healthy parts of out microbiome along ...
Sex, drugs and … vocabulary? Hedonism not only thing that rewards the brain!
For some people, learning new words activates the same machinery in the brain as sex, drugs and possibly fatty and ...
Immunorepertoire: New slant on personalized medicine
Antibodies and T cell receptors recognize all of the proteins in our bodies, and thereby provide a record of everything ...
Computing with DNA
DNA is exceptionally information dense. In nature it is used to encode the instructions for making living organisms, but people ...
When you take your drugs might matter as much as what you’re taking
Circadian clock genes help align our bodies with our planet's 24 hour light-dark cycle. Misalignment of circadian rhythms has been ...