Samuel Hume
@samuelbhume
Writing about new discoveries in medicine. Scientist/medic, previous PhD @UniofOxford and fellow @FoulkesFdn.
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https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=3Y8UaF8AAAAJ&hl=en 04-01-2019 13:56:55
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Biggest medical discoveries of the week (🧵) 1. Why do some people get bitten by mosquitoes but others don't? It turns out that mosquitoes use three signals to pick their hosts: CO2 from breath, human odour, and the infrared radiation emitted by skin (nature.com/articles/s4158…)