The Atlantic – While men do produce sperm into old age, their sperm carries more mutations and there’s less of it. “There are a lot of changes that compromise spermatogenesis,” says Patricia Hunt, a reproductive biologist at Washington State University. “It’s like a machine that gets rusty with age.”
Medical News Today – For the first time, researchers have developed a way of using electrical stimulation in wound dressing that may offer an effective alternative to antibiotics.
They found their approach nearly eliminated all of a multi-drug-resistant bacterium that is often found in infections that are hard to treat. The team from Washington State University (WSU) in Pullman describes their electrochemical scaffold or “e-scaffold” approach to wound healing and how they tested it in the journal Scientific Reports.
The Chronicle of Higher Education – Thabiti Lewis is an associate professor of English at Washington State University and the author of Ballers of the New School: Race and Sports in America (Third World Press, 2010).