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Category: Research

Gunther Eysenbach begins syndromic surveillance of the Internet

Abstract Background Syndromic surveillance uses health-related data that precede diagnosis and signal a sufficient probability of a case or an outbreak to warrant further public health response. Objective While most syndromic surveillance systems rely on data from clinical encounters with health professionals, I started to explore in 2004 whether analysis of trends in Internet searches…

Graphene is discovered

2004 Andre and Kostya frequently held ‘Friday night experiments’ – sessions where they would try out experimental science that wasn’t necessarily linked to their day jobs. One Friday, the two scientists removed some flakes from a lump of bulk graphite with sticky tape. They noticed some flakes were thinner than others. By separating the graphite…

Harvard Magazine: Virus-Sized Transistors

Hyman professor of chemistry Charles Lieber has created a transistor so small it can be used to penetrate cell membranes and probe their interiors, without disrupting function. The transistor (yellow) sits near the bend in a hairpin-shaped, lipid-coated silicon nanowire. Its scale is similar to that of intra-cellular structures such as organelles (pink and blue…

Johns Hopkins researchers introduce “Theragrippers”

Inspired by a parasitic worm, researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine and Johns Hopkins Engineering team up to design “theragrippers” to deliver medicine to GI tract. Problem: extended-release drugs pass too quickly thru GI tract. Solution: Johns Hopkins Medicine and Johns Hopkins Engineering design dust-sized machines that snap to colonic walls and release medicine gradually. Once…

Pro-vaccine expert Geert Vanden Bossche, PhD, DVM, presents keynote address at the the Vaccine Summit in Ohio sponsored by Biogate Scientific Center.

Dr. Geert Vanden Bossche is a pro-vaccine expert.  He is concerned about a vaccination campaign being conducted during a pandemic.  According to him, newly vaccinated people are more vulnerable to infection while their systems develop immunity to the target virus.  During a pandemic, the risk of becoming infected is much higher.  If vaccinated become infected…

“Vaccine-Induced Covid-19 Mimicry” Syndrome

As of April 2021, four adenovirus vector vaccines for COVID-19 have been authorized in at least one country: The Oxford–AstraZeneca vaccine uses the modified chimpanzee adenovirus ChAdOx1 Sputnik V uses human adenovirus serotype 26 for the first shot and serotype 5 for the second. The Johnson & Johnson vaccine uses serotype 26. Convidecia uses serotype 5. Research article excerpt: During the last months many countries have…

Pathological Institute in Reutlingen holds press conference

Backed by Professors Sucharit Bhakdi, Stefan Homburg and Reiner Fuellmich’s Corona Auschuss, a new forensics institute held its first press conference on Monday to present the evidence now available on the fatal accidents that may have resulted from so-called anti-covid injections. The first part of the press conference focused on autopsies of vaccinated people. During these…

German researchers find that spike proteins go to all organs

The lack of evidence for the viral presence and especially viral replication in the brain led to the hypothesis that virus-shed proteins circulating in the bloodstream may promote an inflammatory response independent of direct viral infection of the affected organs, including the brain. Notably, the highly immunogenic spike protein, also used in COVID-19 vaccines, might…