Monthly Archives: October 2022

Prostaglandin production selectively in brain endothelial cells is both necessary and sufficient for eliciting fever

This topic is a straightforward gene-environment interactions study. First, the environmental signal is a bacterial or viral infection; the response is the release of cytokines by specific types of immune cells (at the site of the infection). These cytokines then … Continue reading

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Geneticist who unmasked lives of ancient humans wins the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

John, I, also, was too young to appreciate McClintock’s sentinel papers (in 1958 and 1960). Barbara retired from her position at Carnegie Institution in 1967, but then she worked as scientist emerita (working in her own lab, with grad students … Continue reading

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What We Know about Long COVID So Far

This syndrome is getting to be just a little bit creepy — especially for those of us who are under 50 (–as well as those over 50 who sometimes feel like we’re still younger than 50). 😉 DwN What We … Continue reading

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Geneticist who unmasked lives of ancient humans wins the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

Because these GEITP pages have been sharing many of Svante Pääbo’s exciting breakthrough publications — over the past 14 years — we believe it is only appropriate to report on his winning the 2022 Nobel in Physiology or Medicine this … Continue reading

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Major Scientific Publisher Retracts More Than 500 Papers

Along with the themes of “gene-environment interactions” and “evolution” — GEITP emails over the past 14+ years include, from time-to-time, breaking news on “fraud and corruption in science.” This winning article, just published in The Epoch Times, qualifies for sharing … Continue reading

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