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Once more, screening for prostate cancer
It’s pretty much conventional wisdom among the experts that routine prostate cancer screening for the prostate-specific antigen can cause more harm than good. The recent results of the European study of routine PSA screening …
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Legalizing cannabis in order to legalize cannabis research?
The New York Times has been running a series of editorials and commentaries and blog posts backing legal marijuana. Even although it’s been clear for some time that’s where we’re headed, …
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Give us this day a fix for the GMO battles?
Two papers published in the last week were signal events for agricultural genomics. First was the draft of the huge, and hugely complex, genome of bread wheat, the …
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Lab safety is even worse than you thought
The best single blog source for keeping up with the current smallpox-anthrax-flu-lab safety fiasco is Maryn McKenna’s Superbug, one of the Wired blogs. Some recent posts:
About the cache of old vials …
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Uplift and quaking
When will the next big earthquake hit California, something approximating the one south of the San Andreas fault in 1857 (7.9) or San Francisco in 1906 (7.8)? The forecasts say sometime in the next few decades. Michael …
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Sex roundup: Affirmative action in animal research
My list of potential topics is heavy with sex this week. First–and possibly most far-reaching–the National Institutes of Health is coming to grips with the fact that males and females are . . …
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