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And then there’s another long-term effect of measles: it can wipe out your immune system’s memory, putting kids who’ve survived even a mild case at risk of far more frequent and severe cases of the entire Petri dish of infections in which kids are immersed at daycare and school by wiping out the antibodies they’ve previously acquired.

“If you told me all that, I’d ask: How many seats did California Democrats lose?” said Paul Mitchell, a Democratic campaign consultant and vice president of Political Data Inc. “The petri dish was so inhospitable to Democratic gains, but Democrats still somehow still gained.”

Starting with cells in Petri dishes, the team looked at whether trans or cis fats were preferentially metabolized by SPT -- and it turns out that SPT preferred trans fats.

Then, they moved from Petri dishes to mice, and Gengatharan designed otherwise identical diets containing either high trans or high cis fats but little cholesterol, feeding them to mice for 16 weeks.

Apart from the fact that Marx described the ship as “a floating petri dish,” the duo had a blast.