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I just learned that John Mattick gave a seminar this morning at the Department of Cell & Systems Biology at the University of Toronto. U...

The "All of Us Research Program" is an American effort to sequence one million genomes. The stated goal is to study human genetic ...

There's been a lot of talk recently about a paper claiming that two thirds of all cancers are due to bad luck [ Bad Luck of Random Mutat...

A recent article in New Scientist made me annoyed. The title in the print edition is Cure for Baldness Finally Cuts It . It starts off with...

The week is half over and nobody told me it's Quackery Week. Perhpas that's because it's only Quackery Week in the USA. The US S...

  Last summer, the Ontario College of Physicians and Surgeons published a draft proposal on Non-Allopathic (Non-Conventional) Therapies in ...

The College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario has produced a draft policy on Non-Allopathic (Non-Conventional) Therapies in Medical Pra...

  I don't read the Huffington Post but Orac over at Respectful Insolence does. He notes that it is about to start a new section calle...

  Here's an article from the Atlantic that everyone should read: Lies, Damned Lies, and Medical Science . It highlights the efforts of ...

  Robert Koch and Tuberculosis . Koch's Famous Lecture Robert Koch, a German physician and scientist, presented his discovery of Mycobac...

  Orac is at it again. He describes a pretty good study of the possible effects of acupuncture on lower back pain [ Another acupuncture stud...