Category: 6. Health

Scent is essential to ant society: every ant within a colony wears the badge of membership in the form of smelly hydrocarbons. Human air pollution, a new study from Max-Planck Institute researchers suggests, is wreaking havoc on ant society by…

HIV Reservoir Clones Remain the Key Cure Obstacle 

A NEW study offers a rare window into HIV reservoir clones that can survive for life despite antiretroviral therapy (ART).  

HIV latency, where the virus lies dormant in long-lived CD4+ T…

CANCER after cardiac surgery was tied to shorter long-term survival, even though in-hospital mortality remained low.

Cancer After Cardiac Surgery and Long-Term Survival

As more patients present for cardiac surgery with active cancer or a prior…

In today’s column, I examine a somewhat novel idea that people should consider using generative AI and large language models as a…

When floods sweep through southern Africa, the most visible damage is immediate: homes washed away, crops destroyed, clinics disrupted, families displaced. These images dominate headlines and humanitarian appeals.

But as floodwaters recede,…