Recent Episodes
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Where did the HIV Resistance Gene come FroM
A gene mutation that can cure AIDS is now linked to people who lived near the Black Sea between the Stone Age and Viking Age. That's up to nine thousand years ago. The gene, CCR-five delta thirty-two, codes for a protein on immune cells and is how HIV enters some of those cells.
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Screening When Breasts are Dense
Many women who recently learned they have dense breast tissue may not know that extra screening can save lives. A new study of 9,000 UK women questioned whether extra screening can find cancer and which types are best. The short answer is yes. There are three types of scans and they all beat regular mammograms. The Automated Breast Ultrasound uses 3D ultrasound technology to image the entire breast.
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The Dire Wolf is Back...Maybe
Three new babies have gotten a lot of attention – which happens when you attempt to bring back the dead! Colossal Biosciences is a biotech company that has recreated the extinct dire wolf and cloned three puppies.
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Measles - It Should Not Be Back
The US set a milestone in the year 2000: It had eliminated measles through the measles vaccine. Now, a quarter century later, measles is making a comeback because fewer people are choosing to get vaccinated. Anti-vaccine groups, as well as Robert F Kennedy, the head of American's top health agency, are falsely claiming the vaccine is unsafe.
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Don't Mess With COVID
Even as we try to push past the COVID pandemic, the virus is here to stay, not only as a current infection threat but as a chronic disease in the form of long COVID. Global estimates are that some 400 million people have experienced long COVID - when an infected person's symptoms persist past three months. Some can no longer work or return to their lives due to fatigue and brain fog. Five years after the pandemic, we have a clearer picture of the challenges. Lingering inflammation across the body is a major cause of “long COVID” symptoms.
