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Tag: immune system

  • Let’s You and Him Fight: Autoimmune Disorders and Parasites

    Let’s You and Him Fight: Autoimmune Disorders and Parasites

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    Cedar Sanderson
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    In a forum of smart folks I’m part of, a science fictional conversation came up: if we could terraform another planet, picking and choosing what species we’d put on it, why would we bother with parasites? People bandied around things they’d love to do without, like mosquitoes, poison ivy, ticks, fleas, and various disease-causing bacteria.…

  • Myth-Busting: Bacteriophage

    Myth-Busting: Bacteriophage

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    Cedar Sanderson
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    #ForScience You can find the first myth-posting here. This one is so egregiously wrong I’ve corrected it in several places… and it finally exasperated me enough to put the effort into creating this post, so I have one link that I can toss in a comment when I see the meme float across facebook again.…