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Synchronization of cells, so that they act in concert, is mediated by the chemistry and electricity, as neural impulses, in their environment.

While Circadian rhythms are perhaps the best know example of biologic rhythms, there are many more. Our heart rate, for one, is begun by a cyclic chemical response in our cardiac sinus or pacemaker.

For all the ink spilled pixels expended, on COVID-19 and the immune system, it might help in putting our response and our attempts at vaccines into perspective if we review how our immune system works.

To understand healthcare policy, an area of expertise of my colleague Dr. Chuck Dinerstein, one must have a basic grasp of economics, the dismal science. One particularly important aspect is how prices (and wages) change over time.

Defunding the police, what does it mean?

While indeed, some sperm do have the speed and fortitude of Michael Phelps and his 23 Gold medals, a new study, published in Science Advances utilized high-speed photography and adjustments to the microscope to create three-dimensional images

Having left Manhattan several years ago and moved to the NoFo, I found that delivery services for food were virtually non-existent. You would have thought COVID has changed that significantly, but only if you want Mickey D's or Burger King.

In a little over 350 years, 12.5 million Africans were forcibly moved into the Americas. Current events continue to ripple from that displacement as well as the more recent Great Migration of African-Americans from the South.

I have long been fascinated by how we tell “us” from “other,” the primary job, it seems, of our immune system. But in science, the categories we have chosen as our descriptors are now being questioned.

“The breakthrough came when the farmer began telling Booker about “the hell” he and his neighbors found themselves in.