From: Mouwenda, Y.D., et al (2021), “Characterization of T cell responses to co-administered hookworm vaccine candidates Na-GST-1 and Na-APR-1 in healthy adults in Gabon”, PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases 15:10. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0009732 We all know how vaccines work. You take something from the pathogen into your body, triggering your body’s immune response to fight it off. Then, …
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What can a 1700s Ship’s Surgeon tell us about assumptions in Science?
One thing that scientists and historians of science understand instinctively, but I think is underappreciated elsewhere, is that scientists’ assumptions shape not only how we interpret experimental results, but also how we design our experiments. The ways we think about things, what we understand our experimental subjects and variables to be, certain assumptions we make …
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