Non-Surgical Pacemaker

Pacemakers were innovative, invasive, and experimental at their start. Now, they are common, but require surgery. A new innovation is Continue reading →

Eating Meat Warms Earth

One proposal for reducing greenhouse gases is to cut back on the consumption of meat. Meat, especially from beef, accounts Continue reading →

Antibiotics Failing

Antibiotics were an amazing advance in medicine and probably saved millions of lives. Unfortunately, they aren’t working as well as Continue reading →

Gene Drives

Gene drives are an acceleration of mutation and evolution. Alter the genes in a few specimens that give them a Continue reading →

Fat Paradox

Check our assumptions. Of course skinny people are healthier than fat people. Right? Maybe not. Obesity is bad, but so Continue reading →

Food As Medicine

Food is good. Food is necessary. Helping people eat right to maintain health or to counter ailments has been championed Continue reading →

Stress And Inequality

It is no surprise to learn that the poor face greater stresses than the rich. The insight from this new Continue reading →

Editing Genes In Humans

The prospect of editing genes was hypothetical and academic until the advent of CRISPR. CRISPR has dramatically increased the ease Continue reading →