Holy moly, where did all you people come from?

Due to a bizarre alignment of planets resulting in links from Danger Room, Armchair Generalist, and Little Green Footballs (I sure didn’t see that coming), this little blog has had more visitors today than any other day in its short history. Hi y’all. Stop back occasionally – you’re likely to find something weird, [...]

AFMIC rededicated as National Center for Medical Intelligence

It’s official. The new name takes into account how the agency’s role has expanded in recent years to support issues that affect homeland security as well as military forces. The potential for an H5N1 pandemic, emerging antibiotic resistant pathogens, and medical intelligence related to national disasters have been added to their portfolio out of necessity, [...]

A new kind of Frankenfood: the tomato vaccine

Korean scientists have performed some promising tests using GM tomatoes that grow their own edible vaccines. In this case, against Alzheimer’s disease. And why not – the idea’s not a new one (although this guy notes a rather important reason why edible vaccines would be “a disaster” – each tomato would produce a [...]