The Missing Viral Algorithm I love the Microbiology section in First Aid for the USMLE Step 1: 2014 Edition. I particularly love the bacterial algorithm for Gram(+) and Gram (-) bacteria. I was wondering why the same did not exist for the Viruses. Instead the Viral section is presented as a system of rules for…
The U.S. military and the medical community have just announced that they’re sitting on a potential cure to Malaria. 3.3 billion people live in areas where they are at a risk of getting Malaria. There were 219 million cases in 2010 (about 660,000 people around the world lost their lives to Malaria). So, this is…
I listen to very strange music sometimes. I have an old as dirt playlist called “Classical Music to Listen to While Studying.” I created it yeeaarrs ago. There were some interesting finds in this playlist that I’d like to share. These songs and pieces are very interesting compositions or arrangements. I put this list together…
“…under specific conditions such as caspase intervention, necrosis has been proposed to be regulated in a well-orchestrated way as a backup mechanism of apoptosis. The term programmed necrosis has been coined to describe such an alternative cell death.” http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20390367
Here’s an article I haphazardly discovered today on an important sirtuin protein called SIRT4. Harvardianites have discovered that when SIRT4 is absent from mice, the cell cycle doesn’t function to arrest cell division and keep the cell from becoming malignant/cancerous. SIRT4 acts as a physiological weigh-station to prevent the cell from proceeding when there’s a…
Today the internet switches to IPv6. We’ve all been using IPv4 without knowing it, understanding it, or fully comprehending it. The Internet has always been endangered of running out of space for everyone since 1973. Now, we have a new system launching that will exhaust at about 340 trillion trillion trillions rather than just 4.3 billion…
I was just playing around with some numbers one day after a lecture for school and came up with some formula for calculating the additive emetic level of more than one antineoplastic drug. I thought I’d share it here in case anyone thought it was interesting (and, well, there’s little else to share). Maybe someone’s…
The 1,200 are under pressure to conform to different regulations. On one side this would improve the quality of care for patients since better immunization and preventative care have life-sparing benefits to patients in the long-run. On the other hand, would more obstacles to jump over and more regulating conditions to meet also put a…
A certain report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Health Interview Survey lists Computer Programmer as the eighth-most-sleep-deprived occupation. Computer Programmer is actually the 7th most When I was working as an in-house Computer Programer full-time, I’d often come to work sleep deprived. There was a time when I had to tackle a very frustrating…
The ultrasound used in combination with holographic projections controlled by smart sensors can be used to create all new forms of User Interfaces for a better User Experience Design. I saw this a while back, but every so often these days I find myself thinking about its applications for today. I thought I’d look it…
