As unlikely as it might sound, our future health and happiness might be secured by humble bacteria that can pull carbon dioxide from the air, grow greener food and clean up pollution. Image: NIAID
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We don’t know exactly how many people have been infected with the coronavirus due to a lack of comprehensive testing, but we could begin monitoring about 2 billion people worldwide right now, simply by looking for the pathogen in waste water. Image: eutrophication&hypoxia
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Medics are facing an ethical dilemma: some of the patients seeking physician-assisted death have also expressed their wishes to donate their tissues to science to help researchers treat and cure their illnesses in future generations. Image: Ruhrfisch
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Almost 2000 years ago a young Roman woman living with coeliac disease was struggling to stay healthy – so she may have turned to traditional Chinese medicine in the hope of relief. Chemical residues found in her dental plaque suggest she took ginseng and turmeric, possibly to relieve intestinal problems. Image: Quasimime
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Dr. Game: Surgeon Trouble will never rival the commercial success of Candy Crush Saga, a game that reportedly generated $1.5 billion in 2018 alone. But that isn’t the point. The aim of this free game is not to make money, but to make better doctors. Image: Level Ex
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Recent research shows that our bodies are home to microbes unlike anything science has encountered before – some so alien that they are rewriting the tree of life. Image: ibmphoto24
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Many argue that the innovations in medical education now being explored at places like UTRGV are on a scale rarely seen. “I think there is something of a medical education revolution occurring at the moment,” says Jane Moore, who teaches obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Oxford in the UK. Image: mallix
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Last week, researchers took a small but significant step forward in the battle against HIV. A person named in public only as the ‘London patient’ has apparently been left free of the virus after a bone marrow transplant for a form of blood cancer. Image: greyloch
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Mental health care services are going through a quiet revolution, fueled in part by the widely acknowledged problem of access to therapists and other licensed professionals. No one disputes that new services like Sibly are exciting and innovative. The bigger question is whether they will actually have a positive impact, or whether offering mental health care without involving licensed therapists has the potential to cause real harm. Image: Lieutenant Pol
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Married men and women can grip objects more firmly than their unmarried counterparts. Among married men, it is those who have had more than one wife who have the strongest grip of all — and we don’t really know why. Image: cogdogblog
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Hydrogen sulfide has a bad reputation: not only does the gas smell of rotten eggs, but it is also so toxic that in large quantities it can cause respiratory failure and even death. But over the last 20 years, biologists have learned that the gas also helps keep the circulatory system functioning properly. Image: Lhopfan
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In May 2013, Israeli health authorities made a disturbing discovery. A virulent strain of poliovirus had returned to the country for the first time in 25 years—and it was spreading. To make matters worse, the virus had an opportunity to spread further by exploiting a vulnerability in Israel’s vaccination strategy. Image: TheMichaelPDX
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