Remember The War of the Worlds movie? One of the great sci-fi flicks of the 50s. In the film, the seemingly invincible alien invaders are finally vanquished by infections from ubiquitous and innocuous (to humans) bacteria. Yesterday, the US Center for …
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Deportation and how a diet of bacteria might cure the obesity epidemic?
A news item the other day caught my eye: “Obese South African wins reprieve from deportation”. Evidently, the gentleman in the story was threatened with deportation from New Zealand due to his weight, the potential health care costs that might …
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Tagged with: American Heart Association, bacteria, Gut flora, Health, Jeffrey I. Gordon, Microbiota, New Zealand, Obesity, Weight loss
Salamanders, regrowing new body parts, and pharma!
Go read “Macrophages are required for adult salamander limb regeneration”. Unfortunately, gaining an understanding of the identity of the “…macrophage-derived therapeutic molecules…” that “..may therefore aid in the regeneration of damaged body parts…” could take quite a few years given the pace of …
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Tagged with: human body part regeneration, limb regeneration, macrophages, regeneration, research, salamander, salamanders
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