Antibiotic Resistance, Superbugs and Drugs

--- All 200 posts here --- Antibiotic resistance results, because spontaneous mutations occur so frequently that all bacteria are different....

Suffering from Inflammation?

How do you know if your symptoms result from inflammation? My interest is the molecular basis of inflammation, how inflammation is triggered...

Allergy, Asthma, Autoimmunity Start the Same Way

Inflammation is the current medical buzzword. Name the disease and inflammation is there. Reproduction Requires Controlled Inflammation Asp...

Medical Advice Is Just Wrong

Medical advise says to avoid sun, fats and red meat, but to drink lots of water, eat polyunsaturated vegetable oils and focus on the grain-r...

Where’s the Aspirin?

Aspirin is the traditional anti-inflammatory agent. Many of us grew up with the quintessential doctoring phrase, “Take two aspirin and call...

Synuclein and Amyloid Diseases

NSAIDs, such as ibuprofen and aspirin are possible treatments to inhibit the aggregation of proteins (synuclein, beta amyloid) on charged po...

Topoisomerase Inhibitors

Inhibiting enzymes involved in DNA synthesis should stop cancer cells, because cancer is uncontrolled cell division. Topoisomerases are enz...