In My Universe
Pumpkin’s Revenge
Since it's spooky season, and fall is definitely in the air, along with leaves from tons of trees, I thought I'd share my first flash fiction Halloween story. Warning - it's not a romance. LOL Hope you enjoy, and remember to be kind to pumpkins. Pumpkin’s Revenge Mike's heart leapt with joy when the doorbell rang. He adored everything about ...
Another good start for gene therapy
A combination of gene therapy and optogenetic vision restoration is showing some promise, partially restoring vision in one eye of a man suffering from retinitis pigmentosa. The improvement only worked when he was wearing special goggles that sent light pulses to his eyes. This is an exciting time for medical research. All sorts of new things being figured out every ...
New understanding of UTI’s
Ever wonder how bacteria can grow enough to produce an infection in the bladder? There aren't a lot of intact components in urine. You have to have the four nucleic acids that compose DNA to be able to copy your DNA to make a nucleus for your child. Now we know that a few species can make their own guanine, ...
A new hope – Scientists find a natural protein that might stop the immune system overreaction…
https://www.sciencealert.com/our-bodies-do-have-a-natural-answer-for-killer-allergies-and-autoimmune-diseases ...
New Way to do Diagnostic Tests
Some bright people have come up with a microneedle patch that will be able to test the fluid between cells for the presence or absence of different antibodies or other biomarkers. It can replace a traditional blood draw and the needles are too short to hit the sensory nerves, making it a practically pain-free experience with many potential applications. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-01-pain-free-microneedle-patch-antibodies-fluid.html ...
Stem Cells to the Rescue
In monkeys, for now. Healthy pigmented epithelium cells from a donor eye have been implanted under the macula of a blind monkey. And they took over the function of the non-working cells! This is a promising line of study to help with repairing retinal disease. https://www.upi.com/Health_News/2021/01/14/Study-Retinal-stem-cells-from-cadavers-may-help-restore-vision-in-blind/6921610635179/ ...
And now for something weird…
Turkeys can be pretty bizarre when they want to be. http://www.sciencealert.com/turkeys-performed-a-death-dance-around-a-cat-corpse-and-it-s-kind-of-disturbing?perpetual=yes&limitstart=1 ...
Hope for food allergies
It would be great if this works out. Especially since so many different conditions seem to be tied to our own immune system going wonky on us. Anything to help people with peanut allergies has to be a good thing. http://www.sciencealert.com/there-s-a-patch-that-could-stop-severe-peanut-allergies?perpetual=yes&limitstart=1 ...
I’m skeptical, but….
A lot of the nutritional research has been a bit...iffy in the past. But if this is true, it could be a fairly simple fix for a few health conditions. That would be nice. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2017-02-fasting-mimicking-diet-reverse-diabetes.html ...
This could be really good news.
I'm so grateful to all the smart people out there in the universe. Who would have thought that targeting an acidic environment could lead to a potentially non-addictive pain killer? https://medicalxpress.com/news/2017-03-opioid-pain-areas-negative-side.html ...
The past comes calling….
This is fascinating. Kind of hard to believe how much of what we thought we knew about human history is not quite right. Keep the info coming! http://www.sciencealert.com/neanderthal-dna-determines-our-health-and-appearance-way-more-than-we-thought ...
This would be wonderful
I've seen several false starts for a malaria vaccine, but here's keeping our fingers crossed that this pans out. https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/02/new-malaria-vaccine-is-fully-effective-in-very-small-clinical-trial/ ...