Ever since the pandemic started radio and tv news have been warning of covid transmission by kids, acting as carriers. Interesting article on how parents or older people contracted covid before the kids and not through them.
This is a very interesting article on CAR-T cells where the researchers are examining what happens after administering CAR-T therapy in the patients. Should have rated as 4 stars in novelty.
Nature journal dedicated to in-vivo research and animal welfare. Its latest issue (published 25 Feb2021) has an article titled "Pass the Micropipette" featuring the use of micropipettes for dosing mice in the hope of replacing Intraperitoneal Injections (IP) with the aim of reducing IP hold-related stress in animals. Very interesting approach!
An informative article on turtle fibropapillomatosis caused by a combination of turtle-targeting herpesvirus (Chelonid herpesvirus 5) and environmental triggers. This article mentions "The Whitney Laboratory for Marine Bioscience and Sea Turtle Hospital"- of its kind locally and federally regulated hospital/research facility based in Florida catering to wildlife.
It is an interesting piece funded by Unilever. The fact that the skin microbiome is easily accessible makes it a better study target than the human gut microbiome. According to this article, the gut microbiome is seeded at birth. but. continue to evolve till after puberty. I wonder how much does the outside environment affects it.
I have been following this journal for a little over five years now...they have some interesting articles. I remember reading a section on CRISPR in this journal back in 2014. On the downside, it has too little content.
Interesting to see vegetarian/vegan diet can lead to strokes possibly due to low cholesterol levels. I wonder if there are vegetarian fatty food options to address this, such as the inclusion of coconut oil in the diet perhaps? Though caution is still needed:
https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/food-features/coconut-oil/
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