Amber Dance

3 weeks ago | knowablemagazine.org | Amber Dance

The experiment was a striking attempt to investigate weight control. For six weeks, a group of mice gorged on lard-enriched mouse chow, then scientists infected the mice with worms. The worms wriggled beneath the animals’ skin, migrated to blood vessels that surround the intestines, and started laying eggs.

1 month ago | zmescience.com | Amber Dance

In early 2024, the bird influenza that had been spreading across the globe for nearly three decades did something wholly unexpected: It showed up in dairy cows in the Texas Panhandle. A dangerous bird flu, in other words, was suddenly circulating in mammals — mammals with which people have ongoing, extensive contact. “Holy cow,” says Thomas Friedrich, a virologist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

1 month ago | knowablemagazine.org | Amber Dance

Did you know that mushrooms can get sick? It was in 1948, in a Pennsylvania mushroom farm operated by the La France brothers, that scientists first observed a mushroom malady featuring puny caps and crooked stems. But only in 1962 did researchers finally realize viruses were behind La France disease, as it came to be called, and that viruses caused other fungal afflictions as well — thus launching a whole new field of study.

2 months ago | nacion.com | Amber Dance

A principios de 2024, la gripe aviar, que llevaba casi tres décadas propagándose por todo el mundo, hizo algo totalmente inesperado: apareció en las vacas lecheras del Mango de Texas. Una peligrosa gripe aviar circulaba de repente entre los mamíferos, mamíferos con los que las personas tienen un contacto continuo y extenso. Thomas Friedrich, virólogo de la Universidad de Wisconsin-Madison pensó “así es como empiezan las pandemias”.

2 months ago | tucsonsentinel.com | Amber Dance

Knowable Magazine In early 2024, the bird influenza that had been spreading across the globe for nearly three decades did something wholly unexpected: It showed up in dairy cows in the Texas Panhandle.