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My concerns about Nature paper on Genome Transfer for mitochondrial disease

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A paper just came out in Nature yesterday entitled: “Nuclear genome transfer in human oocytes eliminates mitochondrial DNA variants.” It’s surely risky of me to say this, but is this paper really a clinically-relevant breakthrough for mitochondrial disease worthy of a Nature paper? The study as science is fine and very interesting, but it seems  quite […]

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Chinese scientist sues Nobel Committee for defamation over awards to Yamanaka and Gurdon

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A scientist named Dr. Rongxiang Xu has, according to the newspaper The Australian, sued the Nobel Prize Committee for giving the award to Yamanaka and Gurdon and not him. Xu is quoted in the article that he “discovered ‘regenerative cells’ in 1984. The suit filed in S. California, alleges libel and unfair competition. The Australian

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Media’s crazy cocktails on cancer: today’s case of whole milk and soda

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Yesterday was my 3-year anniversary of surgery for prostate cancer. I’m doing great in long-term remission and hopeful it stays that way. You never know. Knock on wood. Over the years, as both a cancer researcher and patient, I’ve found myself frustrated with the way the media fails at reporting on supposed risky behaviors for

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What did Nasa Mars Rover Curiosity find? Interesting poll results

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I did a poll of what people think Nasa’s big announcement that they said is coming about a history-making discovery of the Mars Rover. The results are above. The top two answers, adding up to nearly 60% of responses, represent very high expectations as both would suggest life has existed on Mars. If you take

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