Printed Cure

Get my medicine! From the printer! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Liver cancer is increasingly treatable, especially with surgery. But cancer cells can remain, growing new tumors. Souha H. Youssef and team at University of South Australia said, not so fast. They three-D printed

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Chill Pill

Pain got you HOT HEADED? Take a chill pill! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Pain is no fun for anyone. We FEEL it because our nerves send pain signals from wounds to our brains. Mercifully, we can stop our nerves from sending those signals.

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(Un)treatable Disease

Up close photo of cute cat.

It’s a medical miracle — for cats!!  This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. We would love to have our furry friends with us forever! However, a DEMON called Feline Infectious Peritonitis, or F.I.P, may rob cats of all nine of their lives.  F.I.P is a

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