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What Nature Can Do For You on Earth Day
Many of us working in the concrete jungles that are our cities feel the stress…
How Old Are You, Really? Meet Your Biological Age.
Whether we easily reveal our chronological age to others or keep it close to…
What’s the Deal with Using Computer Modeling to Predict Disease Outcomes?
Receiving a cancer diagnosis is scary and accompanied by many questions. Will…
What’s the Deal with Antibiotic Resistance?
“A post-antibiotic era means, in effect, an end to modern medicine as we know…
Blocking Hormone Uptake Burns More Fat
Fat is not just fat. In other words, fat is not just a collection of energy…
When Pathogens Collaborate - Research in Brief
Have you ever thought about what could happen if microbes in your body joined…
The Evolution of Allergies, or What Doesn't Kill You...
“That which does not kill us makes us stronger” – Friedrich…
She Traced the 2001 Anthrax Letters. Now She's Protecting Your Gut Health.
I recently had the pleasure of interviewing Rita Colwell, a “giant”…
What You Should Know about Oxidative Damage and Stress
The last two posts I wrote had a unifying theme: oxidative damage. The first…
The Right Chemo For Your DNA
What causes two patients with the same type of cancer to respond so differently…