Tag: Medicine
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Neurological Effects of the Gut Microbiome
The human microbiome is perhaps one of the most subtle and unfamiliar aspects of modern medicine. Though some bacteria have been shown to be beneficial to human health, not much is known about microbiome-host interactions. It remains a keen topic of research. Numbering in 100 trillion cells, the human microbiome is comprised of 10 times…
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Non-invasive, Transdermal Techniques in the Detection of Malaria
Of all the infectious diseases currently plaguing humankind, there are perhaps only a few more difficult to diagnose than malaria. Caused by the parasitic protist Plasmodium , malaria infects over 200 million people each year in Sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, and South America (Howitt et al., 2012). Malaria is transmitted through mosquito bites, in which Plasmodium…