Daily Archives: April 26, 2015

Serving All Your Heroin Needs – NYTimes.com

FATAL heroin overdoses in America have almost tripled in three years. More than 8,250 people a year now die from heroin. At the same time, roughly double that number are dying from prescription opioid painkillers, which are molecularly similar. Heroin has become the fallback dope when an addict can’t afford, or find, pills. Total overdose… Read More »

New Dark-Web Market Is Selling Zero-Day Exploits to Hackers | WIRED

“These findings suggest that lifestyle practices that reduce bacterial dispersal — specifically, sanitation and drinking water treatment — might be an important cause of microbiome alterations,” the University of Alberta’s Jens Walter, senior author of the Papua New Guinea study, said in a news release. Sanitation practices are generally a good thing, but scientists say… Read More »

Microbiome Marvels: Tribes’ Gut Bacteria Reveal Biological Surprises – NBC News.com

he assortments of bacteria that live within the intestines of isolated tribes are far more diverse than the microbes found in the guts of Americans — and scientists say such findings have implications for modern-day maladies ranging from obesity to antibiotic resistance. The latest studies into the varying genetic signature of microbes found in the… Read More »