The Unbreakable Attraction of Mosquitoes to Humans

The blood-dining insect’s neural circuitry for sniffing out its chosen prey is far more complicated and sophisticated than previously thought. Leslie B. Vosshall* More than a decade ago, Leslie Vosshall, then a relatively new Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Investigator, decided to switch from studying innocuous …

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Recent resarch on Covid 19

New Blood Test Accurately Predicts Which COVID-19 Patients Will Develop Severe Infection https://scitechdaily.com/new-blood-test-accurately-predicts-which-covid-19-patients-will-develop-severe-infection/ Excess Deaths from Covid 19 and other causes March July 2020 https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2771761 Editorial of the NEJM: Dying in a Leadership Vacuum https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMe2029812?query=recirc_mostViewed_railB_article Vaccinology and Covid 19 an editorial audio interview https://www.nejm.org/action/showMediaPlayer?doi=10.1056%2FNEJMdo005891&aid=10.1056%2FNEJMe2031646&area=

Lifespan: Why We Age – and Why We Don’t Have To

Photo: Amazon A paradigm-shifting book from an acclaimed Harvard Medical School scientist and one of Time’s most influential people. It’s a seemingly undeniable truth that aging is inevitable. But what if everything we’ve been taught to believe about aging is wrong? What if we could choose our lifespan? In this groundbreaking book, Dr. David Sinclair, leading …

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Pleasure vs Happiness

Photo: Sharon McCutcheon on Unsplash Pleasure, says Lustig, is short-lived, visceral, can be experienced alone, and can be caused by substances or behaviors. Happiness, on the other hand, is long-lived, ethereal, usually social, and cannot be had from substances or behaviors. … “But there’s no such thing as being addicted to happiness.” Happiness Hacked