Health and Medicine

Live or Dead: What’s in a Vaccine?

Vaccines are among the most successful medical innovations in human history, yet few people understand how they actually work. From training the immune system to recognize deadly pathogens to the science behind live, inactivated, and mRNA vaccines, the story of vaccination is a story of harnessing the body’s own defenses.

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Health and Medicine

When Inequality Gets Under the Skin: Epigenetics and Cardiovascular Disparities

Epigenetics shows that inequality is not just experienced, but is biologically embedded. Chronic stressors like racism, poverty, and environmental exposure can alter gene expression, reshape the body’s stress response, and even accelerate cardiovascular disease risk across generations.

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Science News

A Future Worth Remembering: Advancing Diagnosis of Alzheimer’s Disease

With over 7 million Americans affected and no cure in sight, Alzheimer’s remains one of the most devastating diseases of our time. But a new wave of blood-based diagnostics could change everything by shifting detection years earlier and redefining what it means to prepare.

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Health and Medicine, Science News

Pneumonia From COVID-19 Infection: The Deadliest of Them All?

Could SARS-CoV-2 cause the deadliest form of pneumonia? In a breakthrough article recently published in the February 2022 issue of the International Journal of Infectious Diseases, a group of medical researchers from Spain shared their findings in which patients hospitalized for bacterial pneumococcal pneumonia (B-PCAP) were compared to those hospitalized

Science Myths

The Fault in our Sets

Graphic Artist: Margaret Cartee I stubbornly resisted watching John Green’s The Fault in Our Stars until a midnight flight back from an 8th grade field trip. Sitting in the middle seat between two pre-teen boys, I dutifully rolled my eyes at the mushy dates, poignant declarations, and tragi-romantic ending. Even

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