Author Archives: DWN

This report summarizes a promising approach to bioremediation of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) — which comprise a group of “forever chemicals” which are almost impossible to break down in our environment. 😊 DwN September 2023 woman doing science Modified … Continue reading →

This is what I’ve told several of you. I think this (Jan 2022) volcano explains why these past 5 months (in western Oregon) have been +3 to +6 degF warmer (and more humid) than normal. And the U.S. Southwest and … Continue reading →

Yours truly certainly remembers hearing in medical school that “forceful events such as coughs (i.e., the Valsalva Maneuver) can momentarily reverse blood flow and jolt cancer cells loose, into the vicinity of the spine” — where they might form new … Continue reading →

This recently-published paper [see attached Hu et al. paper] has been all over the news this past week. Human ancestors (hominins) diverged from gorilla and chimpanzee ancestors between 8 million and 5.5 million years ago. One of these lineages ultimately … Continue reading →

Some of you will be interested in this Summer 2023 HUGO Gene Nomenclature Committee (HGNC) NewsLetter. As you may be aware, these update issues come out four times a year. —DwN Summer newsletter 2023 HGNC, VGNC, Newsletters · August 2023 … Continue reading →

This topic is well beyond our usual topics — but it bears thinking about. Perhaps something more than The Big Bang is involved in the beginning of our universe. Or, more mind-boggling, perhaps our universe is just one of an … Continue reading →

Thanks, Ed. I was “close,” but one step removed, from knowing the extent of dishonesty and personality clashes that had transpired “before my time.” Professor Ernst Caspari was my Genetics advisor in college (in the end of the 1950s), and … Continue reading →

Over the past decade, GEITP has covered most of Ed Calabrese’s articles — as he has meticulously unraveled the entire fraudulent story of how the Linear No-Threshold (LNT) Model was arrived at in the mid 1950s, how it was based … Continue reading →

“How is this topic related to gene-environment interactions?” — GEITPers such as George Leikauf might ask. 😉 Well, viruses, or viral infections are considered environmental signals, or stressors, to the patient or lab animal. Subsequently, after the viral infection, the … Continue reading →

Note the hexagonal shapes. Sometimes, when I have soapy water in the sink — the soap film on top forms these same hexagonal shapes. There is a thermodynamical explanation about these hexagons (lowest Gibbs Free Energy)… Allow viral particles to … Continue reading →