If there’s one halfway healthy thing that most people do, it’s take a multivitamin pill. My word, taking a little pill with decent amounts of the essential micronutrients and minerals keeps you from getting scurvy, right?
Right. Most people don’t eat sufficient fruits and vegetables. Most people don’t get enough vitamin C over the course of a week to keep them from getting low-grade scurvy, unless you’re one of the smart few who toss back an orange juice shot in the morning.
(Just for the record, I imbibe espresso shooters in the morning. I’m not getting up on my high elliptical strider and being healthier-than-thou.
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TK Kenyon denies ever performing the dangerous experiments described in the novels RABID and CALLOUS when she was a practicing molecular virologist
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In the beginning...
Osamu Shimomura of Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL), Woods Hole, MA, USA; Martin Chalfie of Columbia University, New York, NY, USA, and Roger Y. Tsien of the University of California, San Diego, CA, USA were awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery and development of Green Florescent Protein from jellyfish, GFP.
Let there be light
Osamu Shimomura isolated GFP from the jellyfish Aequorea victoria, which lives off the west coast of North America. GFP glows bright green under ultraviolet light.
Divided the light from the darkness
Osamu Shimomura of Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL), Woods Hole, MA, USA; Martin Chalfie of Columbia University, New York, NY, USA, and Roger Y. Tsien of the University of California, San Diego, CA, USA were awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery and development of Green Florescent Protein from jellyfish, GFP.
Let there be light
Osamu Shimomura isolated GFP from the jellyfish Aequorea victoria, which lives off the west coast of North America. GFP glows bright green under ultraviolet light.
Divided the light from the darkness
As a scientist, sometimes you have to take matters into your own hands.
Or into your own arm, and occasionally, your own heart.
Autoexperimentation is the very risky practice of wildcat science. If you can’t find an animal model for a virus, inoculate yourself. If you can’t find a volunteer, step up.
Several autoexperimenting scientists have won the Nobel Prize.
Nobel Hearts
Werner Forssmann won the Nobel in 1956 for performing the first cardiac catheterization.
Or into your own arm, and occasionally, your own heart.
Autoexperimentation is the very risky practice of wildcat science. If you can’t find an animal model for a virus, inoculate yourself. If you can’t find a volunteer, step up.
Several autoexperimenting scientists have won the Nobel Prize.
Nobel Hearts
Werner Forssmann won the Nobel in 1956 for performing the first cardiac catheterization.
Listen to me. These starved little mice could save your life.
Recently, an article appeared in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a prestigious scholarly journal, about fasting and chemotherapy. The author, Dr. Valter Longo, studied mice that were denied food for two days (but had ready access to water) or had eaten normally. The two groups were then given a high dose of chemotherapy (three times the maximum allowable dose in humans.)
The fasted mice survived and experienced few side effects from the toxic levels of the chemotherapy drug.
Almost half of the mice that ate normally died from the high dose of the chemotherapy drug itself.
Recently, an article appeared in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a prestigious scholarly journal, about fasting and chemotherapy. The author, Dr. Valter Longo, studied mice that were denied food for two days (but had ready access to water) or had eaten normally. The two groups were then given a high dose of chemotherapy (three times the maximum allowable dose in humans.)
The fasted mice survived and experienced few side effects from the toxic levels of the chemotherapy drug.
Almost half of the mice that ate normally died from the high dose of the chemotherapy drug itself.
