Category Archives: Biomedical
Trust me, I’m a Scientist!
According to a MORI poll, nine out of ten people in England trust scientists. That’s a higher confidence level than for most professions. Apart from a few bad guys in history and fiction, the public often caricatures scientists as benign … Continue reading
Posted in Biomedical
Tagged Arthur Koestler, John Ioannidis, Piltdown Man, professional oath, Research integrity, scientific misconduct
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Fertility owes Preservation to a Sheep
The journal Human Reproduction reported a 27-year old woman in Belgium has delivered a healthy baby boy. That would not be newsworthy if she had not been rendered sterile at 13 years old by a life-saving bone marrow transplant for … Continue reading
Posted in Biomedical, Fertility
Tagged Dolly the sheep, Edinburgh University, frozen ovary, ovary transplant, Sherman Silber
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Explore your Longevity with UbbLE
Two Swedish biostatisticians drawing data from the UK Biobank have created a test accessible online for estimating your “age” and chances of surviving the next five years. It’s published in The Lancet medical journal. I couldn’t wait to try it! … Continue reading
Posted in Biomedical, Other
Tagged MetLife, Rembrandt, UbbLE Longevity Explorer
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Make Meat Special
Feeling carnivorous or vegetarian, or somewhere in-between? Is it okay to be carnivorous? Is it natural (whatever that means)? I asked these questions when I was a teenager, like many other people who love animals. For a while I half-heartedly … Continue reading
Posted in Biomedical, Environment
Tagged carnivore, dietary calories, Elsie Widdowson, grass fed beef, paleo diet, price of meat
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GM Human Eggs Have Arrived
We heard confirmation last week of rumors that scientists at Sun Yat-sen University in southern China were trying to change the DNA of freshly-fertilized human eggs. This “first” in science was greeted with horror, hand-wringing, and a storm of criticism. … Continue reading
Posted in Biomedical
Tagged CRISPR, designer babies, eggs and embryos, eugenics, gene therapy, genetically modification, GM babies, In Vitro Fertilization, preimplantation genetic diagnosis, Sun Yat-sen University
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Roger musing about Peace with Nature 