Making Sense of Medical Science (MSMS)

A medical scientist explains medical news for lay people

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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.

Category: Nobel Prize

  • Are mRNA Vaccines Gene Therapy?

    It is biologically impossible for an mRNA vaccine to affect your cell DNA in any way. Think about it—it if could, then all of your cellular mRNA from normal genes being expressed, and the mRNA you eat, breath get from other vaccines, wounds, etc. could do the same. But it does not.

  • 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.

  • Coronaviruses, Colds And COVID: And Cool Immunology

    ….if you were infected with CoV-2, you likely had a much milder cold, if you caught one at all. And vice versa! But the funny thing is that vaccination against COVID did not also protect you against a cold like an infection would.