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Cancer: The March on Malignancy
New research into how and why tumors form, grow and spread is producing better screening tests and more effective remedies with fewer side effects
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Your Intestines Can Taste Sugar
And a new diabetes drug targets those sweet receptors
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HIV on Trial: An Attempt to Cure the World’s Smallest Patients
New global clinical trial aims to replicate the mysterious “Mississippi baby” success
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Antibiotic Resistance Revitalizes Century-Old Virus Therapy
The use of viruses that kill bacteria as a tool for treating infections are under study again by Western researchers and governments
Psychedelic Chemist & `Godfather of Ecstasy' Alexander Shulgin Dies at 88
Alexander Shulgin, chemist and renowned psychonaut who acquainted the world with the drug MDMA - or Ecstasy - died Monday evening at his home in Lafayette, Calif.
Mind & Brain
Talking Death with the Late Psychedelic Chemist Sasha Shulgin
Alexander Shulgin, the most prolific psychedelic chemist in history, has died at the age of 88. I interviewed Shulgin and his wife and co-researcher Ann at their home in California in 1999, when I was researching my 2003 book Rational Mysticism...
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Heroin Has Expanded Its User Base
Compared with 50 years ago, today's heroin user is whiter, more suburban and had prescription opioids for a gateway. Dina Fine Maron reports
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Secret Clinical Trial Data to Go Public
Drug companies have begun to share their clinical trial data. The long-overdue shift heralds a new era in medicine
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Drug Developers Take a Second Look at Herbal Medicines
Desperate to develop new drugs for malaria and other ailments, researchers are running clinical trials with traditional herbal medicines—and generating promising leads
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"Genetic Heroes" May Be Key to Treating Debilitating Diseases
The Resilience Project seeks to find people who are unaffected by genetic mutations that would normally cause severe and fatal disorders
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Fibromyalgia: Maligned, Misunderstood and (Finally) Treatable
Research suggests it’s a disease of the central nervous system
Evolution
My Testy Encounter with the Late, Great Gerald Edelman
Biologist Gerald Edelman–one of the truly great scientific characters I’ve encountered, whose work raised profound questions about the limits of science—has died.
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How Bacteria in the Placenta Could Help Shape Human Health
The placenta is full of microbes, a new study finds, raising questions about how that ecosystem and mothers' oral health influence the risk of preterm birth
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Sorry, But So Far War on Cancer Has Been a Bust
I recently got into an argument, again, about cancer. The occasion was a talk by one of my colleagues at Stevens Institute, philosopher Gregory Morgan, on the fascinating history of research into cancer-causing viruses...
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Senators Sound Off on Electronic Cigarettes
Lawmakers spar over FDA Regulations
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Healthy Lung Microbes Keep Mice Breathing Easy
Like humans, mice start life with sterile lungs that soon get colonized by microbes, which appear to protect the lung tissue from an asthmalike reaction in the presence of dust mites. Cynthia Graber reports
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Life Span Boosted in Worms via Dietary Supplement Compound
It's premature to call the compound, alpha-ketoglutarate, an antiaging drug, but it has been found to extend the longevity of C. elegans by 50 percent
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Drugs to Be Derived from Insights into Body-Dwelling Bacteria
Large pharmaceutical companies are eyeing the therapeutic potential that can result from microbiome research, beyond the use of fecal transplants
Parasitic Worms Wiggle Into Modern Medicine [Q&A]
In 2006, a man named Jasper Lawrence travelled to Africa to infect himself with hookworm by walking barefoot in a steaming mound of human excrement.
Environment
Drugs, Chemicals Seep Deep into Soil from Sewage Sludge
The widespread use of biosolids could contaminate groundwater near farms with a variety of chemicals, including anti-depressants such as Prozac and hormone-disrupting compounds in antibacterial soaps...
