Here’s a few we saw but didn’t have time to cover:
Melt and melt again We are still worried about arctic ice and rising sea levels ,as The Conversation explores in some depth
Transplant restores sperm making There’s always some good news from Nature Briefing, often of the medical kind and if you like this you ought to find ways to subscribe to their newsletter
A man’s ability to make sperm has been restored after a transplant of tissue samples that were removed from one of his testicles and frozen 16 years earlier, when he was ten years old. The samples were taken shortly before he received chemotherapy treatments that put his fertility at risk. Whether the sperm collected from the transplanted tissue can successfully fertilize an egg, and produce a healthy baby, remains to be seen. But the achievement could mark the beginning of a new wave of fertility treatments, scientists say.
Nature | 5 min read
Reference: medRxiv preprint (not peer reviewed)
One in ten medicines could be fake or substandard speculates that excellent read, The Conversation People who get obsessive about cutting regulations would do well to read this first: here’s what happens
Car Parkinsons? Most of us knew about the toxic chemicals in traffic pollution But a surprising new study seems to have uncovered an intriguing link between traffic noise and Parkinson’s disease which causes such dreadful suffering to millions. Yet another reason to push for traffic calmed neighbourhoods, we wonder. Here’s the Guardian
Quote of the week
Oft expectation fails, and most oft there / Where most it promises.
All’s Well That Ends Well Act 1 Scene 2
#global warming #arctic ocean #testicular transplant #parkinsons disease #traffic pollution #medicine
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