Today’s dose is alliteration-heavy: research to remember, a reason for resistance, Canadian conflict, and a proposal for profiling.

— Alzheimer’s patients might not remember the good times and the bad times, but they still feel them, according to new research. A string of sad movie clips were shown to amnesic patients, and though they didn’t remember what happened half an hour later, the patients still said they felt sad. Fortunately, the same held true when patients were shown funny or uplifting movie clips. (NPR)

— The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation withdrew a $5.2 million grant to the Canadian International Development Research Center over a conflict of interest. The center was charged with a tobacco control program in Africa, but its chairwoman, Barbara J. McDougall, was revealed as a member of the board for Imperial Tobacco Canada. (NYTimes)

— Researchers say that a gene variant conferring improved resistance to malaria might also contribute to a higher risk of lupus. In Kenya, the gene variant, which encodes an immune receptor, was seen less frequently among people who developed malaria, compared with their healthy counterparts. Meanwhile, in Hong Kong the gene variant appeared associated with lupus. (LATimes)

— The US National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) will soon vote on requiring a $5 blood test that screens for sickle cell anemia among athletes. In the past ten years, eight football players carrying the sickle cell trait died after strenuous workouts, but some say that sickle cell profiling could lead to discrimination. (NYTimes)

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