FDA meeting to pick next winter's flu shot is canceled, in ominous sign for US(endpts.com)

43 points by benchtobedside 1 year ago | 29 comments

Isomorphic labs deals with pharma companies(endpts.com)

15 points by pama 2 years ago | 2 comments

Popular gut probiotic craps out in randomized controlled trial(arstechnica.com)

97 points by zdw 2 years ago | 126 comments

Parkinson's Link to Gut Bacteria Suggests Unexpected, Simple Treatment(sciencealert.com)

105 points by pelasaco 2 years ago | 32 comments

Compostable fast-food packaging can emit volatile PFAS(cen.acs.org)

141 points by john-titor 3 years ago | 123 comments

Wild Boar Has Five Times More PFAS Than Humans Allowed to Eat(forbes.com)

39 points by Jimmc414 2 years ago | 37 comments

DuckDB Doesn't Need Data to Be a Database(nikolasgoebel.com)

353 points by tosh 2 years ago | 115 comments

A blog post by Nikolas Göbel discussing how DuckDB can act as a database without storing data itself, querying external data sources directly.

'Obelisks': New class of life has been found in human digestive system(sciencealert.com)

393 points by unkeen 1 year ago | 120 comments

ScienceAlert article reporting the discovery of 'obelisks', a new class of viroid-like RNA elements found in bacteria of the human digestive system.

Enhancing gut-brain communication reversed cognitive decline in aging mice(med.stanford.edu)

368 points by mustaphah 7 months ago | 176 comments

Stanford Medicine news article reporting that enhancing gut-brain communication reversed cognitive decline in aging mice.

Immunotherapy drug clinical trial results: half of tumors shrink or disappear(rockefeller.edu)

425 points by marc__1 1 year ago | 84 comments

Rockefeller University news article on a clinical trial of an engineered CD40 agonist antibody that shrank or eliminated tumors in about half of patients.

Gut bacteria from amphibians and reptiles achieve tumor elimination in mice(jaist.ac.jp)

457 points by Xunxi 10 months ago | 114 comments

JAIST press release reporting that natural gut bacteria isolated from amphibians and reptiles achieved complete tumor elimination in mice with a single dose.

Someone at BrowserStack is leaking users' email addresses(shkspr.mobi)

329 points by m_km 6 months ago | 88 comments

Blog post by Terence Eden describing how a unique email address he gave BrowserStack ended up with a third party via Apollo.io, implying a leak.