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Bookmark Parasite-inspired drug delivery system could be the future of medicine - BBC…
You based the technology on parasitic hookworms. Where did that idea come from? We’ve been trying to deliver drugs through the gastrointestinal tract, and that is a formidable challenge because the…

December 23 2020, 1:19am | Comments
Bookmark The macabre world of mind-controlling parasites – Science & research news |…
The gruesome new field of neuro-parasitology could provide insights into the neurological basis for behavior and decision-making — By Conn Hastings Imagine a parasite that makes an animal change its habits,…

June 11 2018, 5:02am | Comments
Metafilter Ask MeFi: What would be the symptoms of a parasitic infection of the brain? Asking for fictional reasons. The parasite in question is T. Cruzi, which is the parasite that causes Chagas disease. Usually the little guy hangs out in heart muscle and causes heart attacks, but in this universe, the parasite now likes to live and…

March 14 2018, 11:22am | Comments
Bookmark Meet the Father of Digital Life
n 1953, at the dawn of modern computing, Nils Aall Barricelli played God. Clutching a deck of playing cards in one hand and a stack of punched cards in the other,…

June 20 2014, 6:08am | Comments
Bookmark We Are Parasites: On the Politics of Imposition | Art & Education
"In January 2011, I started to write about Byrne's artistic practice, fascinated by what I began to theorize as the parasitism of her provocative and ingenious artistic reversals of power and…

February 11 2013, 2:53am | Comments
Portfolio Kipple and Things II: The Subject of Digital Detritus

August 25 2012, 10:00am | Comments
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superannuated cultural parasite

May 1 2012, 5:02am | Comments
Bookmark Toxoplasma is creeping into our brains, causing everything from car wrecks to…
Jaroslav Flegr is no kook. And yet, for years, he suspected his mind had been taken over by parasites that had invaded his brain. So the prolific biologist took his science-fiction…

February 9 2012, 9:21am | Comments
Tumblr (Quote) "What is an enemy, who is he to us, and how must we deal with him? Another way to put…
“What is an enemy, who is he to us, and how must we deal with him? Another way to put it, for example, is: What is cancer? - a growing collection of malignant cells that we must at all costs expel, excise, reject? Or…

September 14 2011, 5:01am | Comments
Bookmark The not so universal tree of life or the place of viruses…
According to this view, ancient viruses, as with the ones today, could only make copies of themselves by succesfully infecting a host. So they become engines of innovation, using every possible…

March 2 2011, 6:32am | Comments
Bookmark Malaria caught on camera breaking and entering cell
The video above captures the moment when a malaria parasite invades a human red blood cell - the first time the event has been caught in high resolution. The Plasmodium parasite…

January 24 2011, 2:54am | Comments
Bookmark Ancient death-grip leaf scars reveal ant–fungal parasitism
Parasites commonly manipulate host behaviour, and among the most dramatic examples are diverse fungi that cause insects to die attached to leaves. This death-grip behaviour functions to place insects in an…

August 19 2010, 8:40am | Comments
Bibliography Parasite (PostHumanities) by Michel Serres

August 16 2010, 3:34am | Comments
Writing from 3quarksdaily The Opposition Paradigm (Together Again for the First Time)

May 16 2010, 9:15pm | Comments
Portfolio The Movement of The Middle

June 30 2009, 9:05am | Comments

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