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The Radiation All Around Us

Since the 1970s, scientists have invested a huge amount of time and effort to understand and protect people from carcinogens. As scientists gradually discovered the negative effects of…

“Three-Parent” Fertilization: The Future of Developmental Biology?

Imagine having three biological parents – three people’s DNA in a genome instead of just two. Developmental biology researchers and the U.S. Food and Drug administration are currently…

Snacking Interrupts Effects of Advertising

Eating popcorn and chewing gum diminish advertising effects from commercials, as found by Topolinkski and his research team from the University of Wuerzburg in Germany (1). Participants who…

Studying the Progression of Alzheimer’s with Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells

As the concluding speaker for the 2013 Life Sciences Symposium hosted by Geisel School of Medicine, Professor Lawrence Goldstein – the director of the Stem Cell Program at…

Light-activated “Switchable” Antibiotics

On 15 September 2013, scientists at the University of Groningen published their discovery of light-controlled antibiotics in the journal Nature Chemistry. These “switchable” antibiotics can be turned on…