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Bodywork: An introduction to the gut microbiome

February 28, 2023

I’ve heard products advertising their benefits for “gut health.” What exactly is that, and how would I even know if my gut is healthy – or not?

Filed Under: Bodywork Tagged With: adam cohen, bacteria, gut health, McEver, microbiome, OKC, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, OMRF, rodger, scientist-news

Bodywork: Do adults need whooping cough boosters to protect newborns?

August 16, 2022

My daughter is pregnant, and she’s asked me to get a whooping cough booster shot. If I received all the required boosters as a child, is it really necessary?

Filed Under: Bodywork Tagged With: bacteria, McEver, OKC, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, OMRF, rodger, scientist-news, shot, vaccine, whooping cough

Ask Dr. McEver: How Yellowstone’s hot springs paved the way for DNA testing

How can a bacteria found in a hot spring play a role in decoding human genes?

Are we too clean for our own good?

June 25, 2019

Mounting research suggests our quest to be clean might make children sicker, not healthier.

Filed Under: News Tagged With: adequate, allergens, bacteria, Chakravarty, children, clean, cleanliness, dangerous, defense, Eliza, environment, Gaffney, germ, healthier, hygiene hypothesis, immune, immune system, immunity, infections, microbes, microbiome, news, newsok, OKC, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, OMRF, patrick, sanitized, sanitizer, scientist-news, sick, sicker, sterilized, young

The “mad” scientist: fact or fiction?

October 26, 2017

Like many fictional characters, the mad scientist figure has its basis in real life.

Filed Under: News Tagged With: bacteria, barry marshall, experimentation, fictional, gut, h. pylori, Hal Scofield, halloween, heart, history, holiday, horror, human, mad scientist, medical, mosquitoes, nobel prize, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, OMRF, real, robert, scientist-news, Scofield, study, surgery, test, trope, virus, walter reed, werner forssmann, x-ray, yellow fever

OMRF researcher tests new approach for treating deadly blood infection

July 18, 2017

Lupu’s findings were published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Filed Under: News Tagged With: bacteria, biomedical, blood, Coggeshall, complement activation system, condition, damage, deadly, defense, drug, er, failure, Florea, Florea Lupu, hospital, immune system, journal, K., lab, Lupu, NIAID, NIGMS, NIH, OKC, Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, OMRF, organ, pathogens, pharma, PNAS, ra pharma, research, science, scientist-news, sepsis, therapy

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