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He Was Dying. Antibiotics Weren’t Working. Then Doctors Tried a Forgotten Treatment.
Phages are making a comeback.
...phages do not kill indiscriminately: Though there are trillions in the world, each is tuned evolutionarily to destroy only particular bacteria. In 1917, Félix d’Herelle recognized phages’ talent for targeted killing. He imagined that if he could find the correct phages, he could use them to cure deadly bacterial infections...
https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2018/05/the-best-viral-news-youll-ever-read-antibiotic-resistance-phage-therapy-bacteriophage-virus/

Henrietta Lacks' Lasting Impact Detailed In New Portrait
When Henrietta Lacks was dying of cancer in 1951, her cells were harvested without her knowledge. They became crucial to scientific research and her story became a bestseller. Since then, Lacks has become one of the most powerful symbols for informed consent in the history of science.
https://www.npr.org/2018/05/15/611389741/henrietta-lacks-lasting-impact-detailed-in-new-portrait?utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=news

When It Comes to Scientific Research, Most Americans Don't Know What to Think
... Carl Sagan : "sooner or later this combustile mixture of ignorance and power" will blow up in our faces."
"We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology," he famously said.
https://www.sciencealert.com/when-it-comes-to-science-research-americans-don-t-know-what-to-think

PS2:
mother’s day for scifi fans…
(often more fi than sci)
starring mother horta
(ST TOS The Devil in the Dark)
https://trek-tracks.tumblr.com/post/173872143958/mother-horta-needs-love-too

PS:
Happy Mother’s Day! Be sure to thank your mother for your mitochondria!
http://molecularbiologistproblems.tumblr.com/post/85435581554/happy-mothers-day-be-sure-to-thank-your-mother

Want to Save the Planet? Empower Women
by Erin Myers Madeira
Global Program Lead for Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities, The Nature Conservancy March 2018
https://global.nature.org/content/want-to-save-the-planet-empower-women?utm_campaign=social.nature&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_content=1526049024

Gut Microbes Could Play a Role in Heart Disease Too
Look after your microbiome!
The microbes that live in our gut seem to be important in preventing a number of diseases caused by inflammation such as psoriatic arthritis, diabetes and gut conditions like inflammatory bowel disease.
In all of these diseases, it has been found that there is a lack of diversity of healthy gut bacteria, which means there are fewer kinds of microbes.
https://www.sciencealert.com/gut-microbes-could-be-playing-a-role-in-heart-disease-risk-too-microbiome-health

#interactiveEarthtimeMap
This Interactive Tool Lets You See With Your Own Eyes How We Have Changed Our PlanetDisturbing and mesmerising at once.
https://www.sciencealert.com/online-map-shows-chilling-timeline-of-earth-damage-climate-change

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This is the Worst Way to Become Vegetarian
Lone star ticks hunt in packs and spread an allergy to beef and pork.
https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2018/05/this-is-the-worst-way-to-become-vegetarian/

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#MaxineWaters #fuckGOPthugs #MaxineWatersKeepUpTheGoodWork
"I am more offended as an African American woman than you will ever be." Rep. Maxine Waters responds to Rep. Mike Kelly's words on discrimination during debate about repealing 2013 auto lending guidance.
https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/994774951977803776

Study: Beavers Could Help Curb Soil Erosion, Clean Up Polluted Rivers
A new study, undertaken by a team of University of Exeter researchers using captive Eurasian beavers (Castor fiber), has demonstrated the significant impact the animals have had on reducing the flow of tons of soil and nutrients from nearby fields into a local river system.
http://www.sci-news.com/biology/beavers-curb-soil-erosion-polluted-rivers-05993.html

The First Evidence That Animals Can Replay Memories in Their Head Is Here
Just like us!
"The reason we're interested in animal memory isn't only to understand animals, but rather to develop new models of memory that match up with the types of memory impaired in human diseases such as Alzheimer's disease," said lead researcher, neuroscientist Jonathon Crystal from IU.
https://www.sciencealert.com/first-evidence-animal-replay-memories-head-episodic-alzheimers

Native Knowledge: What Ecologists Are Learning from Indigenous People
From Alaska to Australia, scientists are turning to the knowledge of traditional people for a deeper understanding of the natural world. What they are learning is helping them discover more about everything from melting Arctic ice, to protecting fish stocks, to controlling wildfires.
https://e360.yale.edu/features/native-knowledge-what-ecologists-are-learning-from-indigenous-people

#OriginalNativeAmericanFoundingPopulation #NativeAmericans
DNA sequences suggest 250 people made up original Native American founding population
LAWRENCE — A University of Kansas anthropological geneticist is part of an international research team working to shed light upon one of the unanswered questions concerning the peopling of the New World: Namely, what was the size of the original founding population of the Americas?
https://news.ku.edu/2018/04/27/dna-sequences-suggest-250-people-made-original-native-american-founding-population