During a tutorial for my General Chemistry class in the Fall of 2015 a student asked me if I believed in global warming. There were only two students in attendance and we were sitting together at a table working on… Continue Reading
A vaccine against the HIV virus has proved elusive. A completely different approach that has the potential to replace a conventional vaccine was recently described by Gardner et al., in a letter in the journal Nature (1, 2). The paper… Continue Reading
Imagine a world without antibiotics, where any bacterial infection is potentially life threatening. The World Health Organization (WHO) declared in a report in 2014 (1) that a post-antibiotic era, “in which common infections and minor injuries can kill,” could start… Continue Reading