Making Sense of Medical Science (MSMS)

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Steve Clark, PhD is a retired university professor with a PhD in immunology and a past Special Fellow of the Leukemia Society of America. Clark has published dozens of papers based on his research and holds two drug patents. He taught medical and graduate students about cancer biology and genetics, and about research ethics. He also directed an NIH-funded PhD Graduate Program and chaired several executive-level faculty committees. Clark served on the University Chancellor’s Speaker’s Bureau. While retired, Clark has been blogging on the COVID pandemic, which is the subject of his next book.

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  • SARS-CoV-2, A Respiratory Virus That Messes With Your Gut

    The CoV-2 virus that causes COVID is a respiratory bug, right? They say we catch it, not from surfaces or food, like we do norovirus, but from airborne exposure—we breathe it in. That of course, means that it causes respiratory problems. Makes sense, right? Well, Sarah Carter, 36, from San Mateo, CA, caught the virus…

  • Infections Can Cause Brain Atrophy And Dementia

    Two provocative areas of research have led to the notion that infection could be a risk factor for dementia. On one hand, some studies have directly suggested that there is a possible link between some infections and an increased risk for Alzheimer’s disease (AD). Then, other studies found that two vaccines, the flu shot and…

  • SpaceX AND BioX Do It Again!!

    Just a few days before the SpaceX catch, it was announced that BioX won the 2024 Nobel Prize for using a computer, or artificial intelligence, to decipher the structure of ALL known proteins, and for using similar technology to create whole new functional proteins. We are in a new brave world of science.

  • The Long Haul, Part 3: Long Neurological COVID

    Researchers have pretty well cataloged the unusual range of long COVID’s neurological symptoms and now are at the very early stages of understanding their causes and how to treat the problems.