Nicky Penttila » Uncategorized http://nickypenttila.com Reading, writing, brain science, whatever Tue, 17 Aug 2010 21:51:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Spring http://nickypenttila.com/2009/04/spring/ http://nickypenttila.com/2009/04/spring/#comments Sat, 04 Apr 2009 17:45:29 +0000 nickyp http://nickypenttila.com/?p=473

These greeted me as I stepped outside each morning for a week. Vanished already in life, they greet me now only in pixelworld.

]]> http://nickypenttila.com/2009/04/spring/feed/ 0 Location, location, location http://nickypenttila.com/2008/11/location-location-location/ http://nickypenttila.com/2008/11/location-location-location/#comments Fri, 07 Nov 2008 21:14:22 +0000 nickyp http://nickypenttila.com/?p=114 Our top story this week isn’t brain but immunology: Delivering a flu vaccine deep into the lung — instead of into your arm or your, ahem, elsewhere — might not only improve how it works but do so at a much lower dosage of the virus. After all, you have flu mainly in your lungs. One researcher estimates we could cover hundreds of people with the amount of virus we currently use in one arm-shot. That would be good in the case of, say, an anthrax cloudburst.
Of course, they have only tested this idea on sheep, who can be made to sit still for a shot delivered down the throat. I’m thinking we humans will need a little bit more coaxing.
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