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Posts by
Emily Willingham
Gut types: Which of the three are you?
Researchers have classified people into categories of bacterial ecosystems. Yes, you read that right. You're an ecosystem. One of three gut types possible.
April 24, 2011
Fertility drug HCG contains molecules linked to mad cow disease
Urine-derived human chorionic gonadotropin (HCG), used as a fertility drug, can carry prions, molecules that cause mad cow disease.
April 16, 2011
How bacterial dirigibles might someday target disease
Tiny bacterial factories dubbed “bacterial dirigibles” might someday deliver disease-fighting chemicals straight to a targeted body part - like your intestine.
April 14, 2011
Numbat babies: Cute and endangered Australian marsupials
These numbat babies are part of a Perth Zoo program to save the endangered Australian marsupial from extinction.
April 4, 2011
Memories emerge from corners of the mind to do battle
A Stanford research study on "memory competition" might mean that - when you try to remember things - memories of similar experiences step in and interfere.
March 31, 2011
Texas site yields 15,000-year-old evidence of earliest Americans
An archaeological site in Texas has yielded almost 16,000 pieces of evidence that people were present in the Americas about 2,500 years earlier than thought.
March 29, 2011
Ancient Nubians might have brewed beer for antibiotics
Tetracycline wasn't discovered officially until 1948, but ancient Nubians might have brewed up its powerful bacteria-killing properties in their beer.
March 27, 2011
Did Henry VIII have a blood disorder?
A single blood protein, the Kell antigen, might be to blame both for the wives of Henry VIII many miscarriages and for his bizarre paranoid mid-life behavior.
March 22, 2011
Ötzi the Iceman: See what he looked like
Reconstruction artists have given us a photo of Ötzi the Iceman, a 5,000-year-old body discovered locked in Alpine ice 20 years ago.
March 21, 2011
Blood pressure linked to sugary drinks
Drinking more than one sugar-sweetened drink a day is linked to higher blood pressure.
March 16, 2011
