George Johnson
Does oxygen cause lung cancer?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Epidemiologists have long been ...
For ideologues, from GMOs to fluoridation, science is battleground of “hand-picked truths”
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion, and analysis. In the 1960s, with ...
Cancer cells are ‘cheaters’ in Darwin’s vision of evolution
Maybe it was in “some warm little pond,” Charles Darwin speculated in 1871, that life on Earth began. A few simple chemicals ...
Appreciating nature’s beauty and symmetry without attributing it to a creator
I remember the chill I felt, 27 years ago, when I picked up the latest edition of Scientific American magazine ...
Evil twin of embryos: The tumor
Researchers are finding that the genes and biological mechanisms that guide the development of fetal cells within a fetus are ...
We’re always losing the war on cancer
Half a century ago, the story goes, a person was far more likely to die from heart disease. Now cancer ...
Cancer cells evolve to outwit body defenses
Cancer is a disease of information, in which a cell becomes reprogrammed into a precision killing machine. In the consensus ...
