Think one flu shot fits all? Think again. This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Vaccines train your immune system to make antibodies, which recognize and help block viruses. But turns out…not everyone makes the same antibodies! Alexandra Fischer and team at Sweden’s Karolinska Institutet studied
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Does the Earth wipe its own… GAS?! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Permafrost is any ground that has been frozen for years, storing carbon. When thawed, that carbon is released as a gas, CO2. It escapes into the atmosphere, traps heat, and worsens climate
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Conservation is a big deal – who should drive this project? Nature? This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Let’s look at NATURAL rainforest recovery, with Timo Metz and team at Technical University of Darmstadt in Germany. They surveyed sixty-two plots in Ecuador’s Chocó rainforest. These
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Can we turn methane into merlot? This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science saying… Scary question, I know. How did we get here? Cow burps and landfills trap us with a bad vintage of greenhouse gases. Can the damage be undone? Enter Ruchira Mitra and colleagues
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Got fungus on the brain? This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Your brain works because different regions constantly send messages to each other. It doesn’t work as well when we’re depressed. But Psilocybin from certain mushrooms, may help by changing which brain pathways grow stronger.
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Was the cure for cancer inside us all along? This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science saying… In a way, yes. A global research team from Harvard Medical School, Dana Farber, and Maastricht University looked at the thymus. This organ trains immune cells. They used algorithms
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Oysters need cloisters! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. We’ve demolished MOST natural oyster reefs. To rebuild them, we usually just dump flat rocks underwater. Sure, rocks offer a place to attach, but without hiding spots, baby oysters are easy prey! What’s missing? Enter Melanie
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Can the “little blue pill” get our cells up and running again? This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science… And we’re talking about Mitochondria, the tiny structures that power our cells. In the nightmarish Leigh syndrome, broken mitochondria cause weakness, loss of movement, and dangerous metabolic
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Most organs are a one-hit wonder. Once they’re gone, they’re gone, right??? This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Take the thymus. It trains infection-fighting T cells, but as we age, it shrinks, weakening our immune system. Could the thymus make a comeback? Enter Anna Czarkwiani
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That baby black hole is built like a linebacker! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. For years, astronomers have spotted mysterious “little red dots” in the sky. They were believed to be black holes that were impossibly massive for their age. Not so, according to
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