Many Disease Genes are Sheep in Wolves’ Clothing
Everyone has heard about genetic mutations causing serious disease. Finding one in your genome was like getting a death sentence. Recently, however, geneticists have been surprised that many people...
View ArticleGut bacteria can aid recovery from spinal cord injury, study suggests
Researchers from The Ohio State University have discovered that spinal cord injury alters the type of bacteria living in the gut and that these changes can exacerbate the extent of neurological damage...
View ArticleVitamins A and C help erase cell memory
Vitamins A and C aren’t just good for your health, they affect your DNA too. Researchers at the Babraham Institute and their international collaborators have discovered how vitamins A and C act to...
View ArticleWhat Does Human Flesh Taste Like? This Guy Got A Biopsy, Cooked It And You...
Greg Foot, a BBC science presenter, wanted to know what human meat tastes like. He filmed himself while having a biopsy taken from his own thigh. In his YouTube show, BritLab’s “Secrets of Everything,”...
View ArticleCancer breakthrough: Scientists develop ‘smoke detector’ test that can spot...
A simple blood test that can detect cancer before any symptoms are noticeable has been developed by researchers in a breakthrough that could save thousands of lives. The scientists, who unveiled the...
View ArticleBacteria You Can Love
Wrongly feared as agents of disease, many bacteria are allies in our quest for health. Here are two examples of bacteria we can celebrate as friends. Look at the good they can do for us! Water and...
View ArticleBats Used to Fight Zika Virus
NORTH HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. — As mosquito season heats up, bringing with it the threat of the West Nile and Zika viruses, one Long Islandtown is taking an unorthodox approach: bats. The town, North...
View Article‘World’s saddest orangutan’ kept in chains for years enjoys new life
An orangutan described as the ‘saddest in the world’ after being kept in chains for four years has been successfully rehabilitated. Bujing was rescued after being chained to the side of a house in the...
View ArticleFetal Stem Cells — Studying Media Hype
This is a warning about investor trawling, media hype, and the realities attendant to regenerative medicine. Whenever a stem cell company, particularly one dealing with controversial tissues such as...
View ArticleChocolate makes you smarter, study suggests
It’s good for your heart, reduces the risk of strokes and even helps protect your skin from the sun. Now, another apparent benefit has been added to the list of chocolate’s nutritional qualities: it...
View ArticleMother’s Milk Could Save a Million Lives
Who wouldn’t want to encourage a simple practice that can save almost a million lives and over 300 billion dollars per year in health costs?1 According to an article in medical journal The Lancet,...
View ArticleIs Junk DNA preventing Breast Cancer?
Each time a function is found for a piece of non-coding DNA, the “junk DNA” myth gets more mythological. Here’s a function that has been revealed for a certain long, non-coding transcript of DNA into...
View ArticleMS Patients In UK Get Better With Adult Stem Cells
The U.K. press are reporting heartening results for the use of adult stem cells to treat relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis (MS), including descriptions of “remarkable” improvements and...
View ArticleUsing David Bowie to Promote Assisted Suicide
From all accounts that I have read, David Bowie died naturally of cancer. But writer Ann Neumann in The Guardian strives mightily to tie his demise to assisted suicide. From “David Bowie Planned His...
View ArticleSuperbugs not super after all
After over 12 years as a medical practitioner, I suddenly found myself an avid consumer, rather than a provider, of medical care. Involved in a serious road accident in 1986, I spent many months in...
View ArticleHead of Company That Mass Manufactures Cloned Animals Ready to Pursue Human...
The head of a Chinese company that mass manufactures cloned animals claims that he could do it with humans. From the AFP story: The Chinese scientist behind the world’s biggest cloning factory has...
View ArticleFor Euthanasia Fanatics, It’s Never Enough
There is an insatiable logic to the euthanasia movement. Once becoming dead is transformed into a fundamental civil right, there is almost no limit to the killing/suicide license thereby created. Case...
View ArticleEstrogen in men?
Estrogen is commonly known as a ‘female’ hormone. However, men also manufacture estrogen. Does this make men confused about their sexuality? Christopher S. from the United States writes: My Dad...
View ArticleCalifornia’s Physician-Assisted Suicide Law Requires Doctors to Lie
Correction: This post mistakenly referred to California legislation to legalize assisted suicide that would have required doctors to list as “the cause of death on an individual’s death certificate”...
View ArticleGermany Opens the Door to Culture of Death
If there is one lesson I have learned in 22 years of anti-euthanasia activism, it is that you can’t compromise with the culture of death. Once it gets its scythe through the door, it never stops. Like...
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