Category Archives: Center for Environmental Genetics

Bile acids are steroid-like natural products that are secreted into the gastrointestinal (GI) tract of vertebrate animals after eating — where they act as “detergents” that aid in digestion, as well as ligands for host receptors. In the gut, host-derived … Continue reading →

From: Nebert, Daniel (nebertdw) Sent: den 9 maj 2022 00:25 Subject: “Completing” the human genome (this time, for real ??) #2 The attached articles accompany the “human genome sequence story” — sent to everyone within the past hour. From left … Continue reading →

Two miles underground, strange bacteria are found thriving by Chad Boutin Oct. 20, 2006 A Princeton-led research group has discovered an isolated community of bacteria nearly two miles underground that derives all of its energy from the decay of radioactive … Continue reading →

This brief story, published in Nature — represents the follow-up of Dr. Katalin Karikó, an obscure scientist quietly working alone in the lab, who first designed an mRNA construct that was successful in having intact messenger RNA (mRNA) enter living … Continue reading →

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

Human complex diseases represent a phenotype (trait) that reflects the combination of: [a] genetics (e.g., DNA sequence variants); [b] epigenetics (chromosomal changes other than DNA sequence alterations); [c] environmental factors (pesticides, chemical pollutants); [d] endogenous influences (diabetes, heart disease); and … Continue reading →

This article from Medscape, just received today, is about “evolution” and had such an intriguing title — that I had to begin reading it. And once I began reading it (it’s written very breezily and it’s enjoyable to read), I … Continue reading →

The SARS-CoV-2 B.1.1.529 (omicron) variant contains 15 mutations in the receptor-binding domain (RBD). How Omicron evades RBD-targeted neutralizing antibodies — requires immediate investigation. Authors [see attached] used high-throughput yeast display screening to determine the profiles of RBD-escaping mutations for 247 … Continue reading →

Some of you will find the 2022 Winter HGNC NewsLetter relevant and of interest. 😊 DwN https://blog.genenames.org/hgnc/2022/02/24/Winter_newsletter_2022 Winter newsletter 2022 Newsletters · 24 Feb 2022 Thanks to our Scientific Advisory Board We would like to thank all the members of … Continue reading →

The Military-Industrial-Academic-Political-Scientific Complex J. Scott Turner January 24, 2022 Sixty-one years ago, just before leaving office, Dwight D. Eisenhower delivered his farewell address. The most remembered and oft-quoted sentence of that address was an admonition: In the councils of government, … Continue reading →