Researchers have figured out how to induce it in mice, and it may work for humans as well.
It has obvious implications for space travel, but I wouldn’t have minded sleeping through the past five months, myself.
Category Archives: Health
Developing A Vaccine
Yes, we should be doing challenge trials, and let adults decide what they want to do with their bodies. As I noted in the book, how many potential lives might have been saved by being willing to risk ISS crew for medical research?
The Incoherence Of Public Health
You know you’re in trouble when the Guardian notices.
[Update a while later]
Politicizing science: Bob Zimmerman is not impressed.
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Tribalism
Out With The Old Blood
An interesting anti-aging result in mice. The interesting thing is that it’s already an approved procedure, so it won’t need clinical trials.
Functioning Human Livers
…have been grown from stem cells. They’re tiny, for now, but this seems like a huge breakthrough. And good news for alcoholics, among others.
D-Day
It was the invasion that saved the world.
Last year was a much bigger deal, because it was the 75th anniversary, and there’s a lot more going on this weekend.
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This year, the beaches and fields are empty.
[Sunday-morning update]
First link fixed, sorry.
[A few minutes later]
What if the invasion had failed?
Counterfactuals are always dicey.
Artificial Red Blood Cells
…that may perform better than natural ones. That would be a life saver in many cases.
The Lockdown
May have saved no lives, and cost many.
It’s appearing more and more to me that that was the case. It was perhaps the biggest blunder in human history.
Herd Immunity
This is good news, if true. It could explain why it hasn’t been worse, and probably won’t get worse.