Beckett Hoggarth Beyer At birth, Beckett Hoggarth Beyer appeared to be a healthy newborn baby boy, growing and changing like a typical infant. But when his aunt — a physician — visited their home near Fargo, North Dakota, she noticed something was not right. Beckett’s stools were light in color, and his skin tone was […]
Leishmania major promastigotes in culture. Credit: Michael Zhuo Wang A breakthrough in understanding how a single-cell parasite makes ergosterol (its version of cholesterol) could lead to more effective drugs for human leishmaniasis, a parasitic disease that afflicts about 1 million people and kills about 30,000 people around the world every year. The findings, reported in […]
8. “I learned from my sister to never help someone alone. For example, if there’s a kid saying they want you to help them find their mom, or if there’s a man — or woman! — asking you to help them bring something to their car, don’t do it. Tell them that you’ll ask security […]
Measles, whopping cough, polio, tetanus—devastating and sometimes deadly diseases await comebacks in the US as more and more parents are declining routine childhood vaccines that have proved safe and effective. The vaccination rates among kindergartners have fallen once again, dipping into the range of 92 percent in the 2023–2024 school year, down from about 93 […]
