Share this on WhatsApp The coronavirus pandemic has provided the world with a quick study in the intricacies of immunology. “Herd immunity” and “serological tests” have become household terms. Front and center among these concepts are antibodies. These immune proteins typically emerge during the second or third week after an infection, glomming onto invaders and […]
Share this on WhatsApp The waiting room at the Mosaic Comprehensive Care Clinic in Chapel Hill, N.C., is as generic as any doctor’s office except for a framed sign by the door. “No Wrong Way to Have a Body,” it says, above an illustration of different cacti species. The second anomaly of this primary care […]
Share this on WhatsApp Originally published in July 1948 Credit: Scientific American Advertisement “Was the beetle-browed Neanderthal man really our ancestor, or an unhappy cousin doomed to extinction? Is Homo sapiens a recent arrival in Europe? Last August, in a quiet French village in the Department of Charente, the mystery was solved when a few […]