Personalized, or precision, medicine applied to cancer treatment has its origins in studies of human genetics and the genetic mutations found in different cancers. A variety of personalized treatments continue to make advances in increasing patients’ longevity and quality of life.
During the outbreak of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, epidemiology ha assumed an outsized role in the public consciousness. It was pervasive in the news, as scientists struggled to elucidate both how the virus was being transmitted as well as its likely short- and long-term health effects.
It was three months ago when we wrote about the surge of the H5N1 bird flu strain that had by then already killed tens of millions of birds in various parts of the U.S. and land and marine animals in other countries. Surprising experts, the flu jumped to cows and goats last month. And now it has been detected very high concentrations in raw milk from infected animals, the World Health Organization announced late last week.
Cancer is a catch-all for hundreds of unique diseases, which develop when cells in your body no longer listen to normal cues and start to grow out of control.
It took humans 134 years to discover Norn cells. Last summer, computers in California discovered them on their own in just six weeks. The discovery came about when researchers at Stanford programmed the computers to teach themselves biology.
Hilary Cass is the kind of hero the world needs today. She has entered one of the most toxic debates in our culture: how the medical community should respond to the growing numbers of young people who seek gender transition through medical treatments, including puberty blockers and hormone therapies.
Some people — not just Montanans — pay to indulge in “captive hunting,” and large sheep make excellent targets.
Organic foods, valued at over $75 billion, have long been touted as superior to conventionally grown foods, with some studies claiming they have added health properties and can ward off disease.
Ever since the first commercialization of genetically modified (GM) crops in the mid-1990s, researchers have considered the impact of these new technologies on the economic and ecological footprint of farming.
n a significant development, a court of Philippines ruled against the government’s actions that granted permits for the commercial release of genetically modified (GM) Bt brinjal and golden rice.
The Huntington’s disease (HD) community has recently experienced setbacks, but a new research report may reignite hope, from an unexpected source: the vitamin thiamine (B1), with help from biotin (B7). The investigators, from several institutions in Spain and UCLA, wrote in 2021 in Science Translational Medicine, “Together, these results demonstrate a thiamine deficiency in HD brain and suggest that individuals with HD might benefit from thiamine and/or biotin supplementation therapy.”
In the ordinary chronicling of agribashing, we recently witnessed in France a ‘scary’ report on Google News or MSN News of the individual who had his tap water analyzed and found traces of more than 200 pesticides. It was ‘fake news,’ the latest example of outrageous criticisms of modern farming, which once again demonstrates the press’ lack of ethics, but also the strange passivity of public agencies which allow their data and studies to be distorted and misrpresented without any pushback.
The consumer genome sequencing company 23andMe is a sinking ship – and its CEO is conducting the orchestra.
Accelerated aging — when someone’s biological age is greater than their chronological age — could increase the risk of cancer tumors.
Organic farming certainly has a lot to offer to humans and the environment, but that doesn’t mean it’s always better than conventional farming. To understand how this can be the case, we need to start from the basics: who ‘names’ and ‘certifies’ cultivation, and how. Organic farming means that farmers produce raw materials and food … Read more
A solution may be around the corner to an avian flu outbreak that has led to the deaths of millions of chickens over the past two years, causing food prices to rise, impacting opportunities for farm workers, and raising concerns about public health.
I was proud to join my Iowa Senate colleagues in passing Senate File 2412 this legislative session. As a farmer, I know how important glyphosate is to raising crops. This legislation protects the future of domestically produced crop protection products, like Roundup, and ensures Iowa farmers have the tools they need to feed our growing population.
Small pieces of plastic, now termed microplastics have infiltrated all ecosystems, posing a severe threat to wildlife…and now us. New research has shown that microplastics — especially its microscopic offspring, nanoplastics — might accumulate within our bodies, too.
Eugenics is widely regarded as a debunked pseudoscience—developed and promoted mostly in Nazi Germany—that fell off the political radar.
