Investigator Mark Natter alerts us to an ongoing study by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID): Sublingual Cockroach Safety Study (SCSS) This study is ongoing, but not recruiting participants. ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00434421 Purpose: Immunotherapy may help reduce symptoms of allergy and asthma. Problems concerning compliance and adverse events with subcutaneous allergen immunotherapy […]
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Music | Cockroaches | Nudity – a review
The latest issue of the journal Radical Musicology presents one of the very few peer-reviewed scholarly articles examining interspecies musical collaboration with giant Madagascar hissing cockroaches. The author, doctoral researcher Stacey Sewell, describes a 1997 performance of ‘Ritual’ by New York based artist Miya Masaoka in which the artist lay naked on stage while 13 […]