Monthly Archives: April 2017

This timely article is from today’s NBC­_News.com It is just another example of the types of fraud and corruption going on, within the peripheral fields of “science.” 🙁 DwN FDA Warns of 14 ‘Fraudulent’ Cancer Cure Companies BY MAGGIE FOX … Continue reading →

Sometimes, when human clinical studies are too difficult to undertake, and animal studies (such as the intact mouse) are similarly difficult to perform and tease out important data from all “background noise,” it is useful to study yeast cells in … Continue reading →

In an editorial published last year [N Engl J Med 2o16; 374: 276–277.], concept of “research parasites” was introduced. These individuals who “have nothing to do with the design and execution of the study, but rather they use another group’s … Continue reading →

Flowering plants (angiosperms) are the dominant land plants of today, forming an integral part of the carbon, oxygen and water cycles and are thus essential to the climate stability of the planet. Flowering plants are also essential for human existence … Continue reading →

First was the study of “the genome” and they called it “genomics.” Then came the sequencing of the coding regions (exons) from mRNA transcribed from the DNA, and they called it “transcriptomics.” Then came the protein sequences, called of course … Continue reading →

First there was the claim (April 2oo3) by both Craig Venter of Celera Genomics and the NIHGR-funded Human Genome Project that “the sequence of the human haploid genome had been completed”, but, in actuality, another 10-15% of (mostly) repetitive DNA … Continue reading →

After the last email (about “instinct” clearly involving epigenetic effects) –– the attached pdf file contains one editorial followed by three papers on different phenotypes being elicited by epigenetics effects. Every cell in an organism (except mammalian red cells) contains … Continue reading →

We all realize that an animal’s mind is not born as an empty canvas: bottlenose dolphins are born alive and immediately know how to swim, monarch butterflies know how to leave the Mexican mountains after birth and migrate all the … Continue reading →

Below is a fascinating summary of recent research involving arsenic exposure in pregnant women (in Mexico). DwN Research Brief 268 Superfund Research Program Prenatal Arsenic Exposure Alters Newborn Metabolite Profiles View Research Brief as PDF (401KB) Release Date: 04/05/2017 Researchers … Continue reading →

In genome-wide association studies (GWAS), identifying causal DNA-sequence genetic variants and understanding their mechanisms of effect on the trait being studied remains a challenge. In particular, how these genetic variants, [e.g. expression quantitative trait loci distant from the gene they … Continue reading →