cancer
Court blocks Monsanto subpoena of glyphosate documents from activist group Avaaz
On September 6th, a New York judge blocked Monsanto's attempt to subpoena documents from the political activist group Avaaz. The biotech firm requested ...
Put down the glass of wine: There’s ‘no such thing’ as safe alcohol consumption
You don’t have to go far to find people, including doctors and researchers, who will argue that a little bit of ...
Modern cancer myths and the science behind them
Here are some modern myths about cancer. There have been worries about mobile phones causing cancer since the days of ...
Glioblastoma and John McCain: Why this brain cancer remains an ‘insidious enemy’
Sen. John McCain withstood beatings and torture as a prisoner of war, but he was confronted with an enemy in ...
‘Zombie gene’ could explain why elephants rarely get cancer
[B]igger animals, which have more cells, should have greater occurrences of cancer. By that reasoning, elephants, with hundreds of times ...
3 ways artificial intelligence is tackling cancer
Case Study 1: The Sharing Project … [Jinghui Zhang wondered] how much faster cancer research could move if data sets ...
Harnessing the body’s electrical system to help it heal
Scientists like Michael Levin of Tufts University have discovered that cellular charges control how and where a structure forms in ...
Can we fine-tune drug doses with the help of artificial intelligence?
Patients with glioblastoma, a malignant tumor in the brain or spinal cord, typically live no more than five years after ...
Americans think they know about GMOs, but poll shows consumers still badly confused
As a non-expert consumer, it’s hard to know what to think about GMOs. Of course, we’re already consuming them, with ...
Viewpoint: IARC’s defenders ignore cancer agency’s flawed research, conflicts of interest
I woke up .... to find an article by Neil Pearce, a professor at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, ...
A more modest goal for CRISPR: Making chemotherapy ‘a bit less terrible’ for patients
Ambitious efforts to prevent or beat cancer are important, but we can’t overlook or undervalue the incremental breakthroughs that could ...
Viewpoint: Monsanto is no victim, but Roundup-cancer verdict isn’t backed by science
At the outset, let’s stipulate — as the lawyers might say — that the chemical giant Monsanto is not well ...
Plaintiff’s story convinced jury of glyphosate-cancer link, but other courts may rule the herbicide is safe
Despite a San Francisco jury’s verdict [August 10th] that the cancer .... of a Bay Area school groundskeeper was caused ...
Viewpoint: Verdict in glyphosate trial suggests environmental activists are fair-weather fans of science
[A]re scientists supposed to be the folk heroes of environmental activists or not? When the subject is climate change they ...
In wake of California jury’s glyphosate verdict, New Zealand likely won’t revisit conclusion that herbicide is safe
A lot has been said about a recent court case ruling about Monsanto’s Roundup ..... Adding to the mix, in ...
Glyphosate and cancer—revisited
I’ve already written about this topic back in 2015. Much of the information below is from that original blog post, ...
No link between increased pesticide use and childhood cancer, study suggests
Like the word "chemical," the word "pesticide" has been hijacked and then unfairly demonized. Scientists use the word pesticide to refer to ...
Reflections on the glyphosate cancer ruling: Citing court decisions is common tactic among science deniers
Most people have probably seen the recent news that Monsanto has been ordered to pay $289 million following the ruling ...
Are Roundup-cancer lawsuits about profit, politics or public health?
You might think that the popular weed killer known as Roundup is causing cancers around the world thanks to alarming ...
Does glyphosate cause cancer? Jury says says ‘yes’ but years of research show the herbicide is safe
Can anyone make sense of the debate over glyphosate, the active molecule in the most widely used herbicide [Roundup] in ...
With glyphosate-cancer legal battles poised to escalate, what are the ramifications for agriculture if the herbicide is restricted?
Now that a jury in San Francisco has decided that exposure to Monsanto’s herbicide Roundup (glyphosate) was responsible for California groundskeeper ...
Fighting cancer with help from the body’s internal clock
Chi Van Dang generally declines to discuss the science that made him famous. ... Instead of doing so, Dang [a ...
Monsanto Roundup trial: First lawsuit alleging glyphosate-cancer link goes to jury
A trial in which a school groundskeeper alleged that his use of Monsanto’s Roundup weed killer caused his terminal cancer ...
What causes cancer? Challenge is distinguishing ‘between myth and reality’
Misleading information about what can and can't cause cancer is incredibly prevalent in our society ...
Elephants rarely get cancer. Can humans borrow their genetic strategies?
Elephants have 100 times as many cells as humans. But they seldom get cancer. This is surprising, because cancer is ...
Choosing an alternative cancer therapy cuts survival chances, study shows
Cancer patients who use alternative therapies may be more likely to shun conventional treatments and risk their chances of survival, ...
Monsanto, expert witness spar over validity of IARC’s glyphosate-cancer finding
An agricultural economist refuted Monsanto's assertion that the International Agency for Research on Cancer "cherry picked" studies to conclude that Monsanto's ...
