Biomedicine & Biotech

Suppose you're designing a clinical trial to determine whether people from Inner Mongolia are better or worse swimmers than those from Outer Mongolia. 

Vaccines are meant to help, not harm. So you can imagine our surprise when we first heard of the intriguing term gaining popularity among the anti-vaccine crowd: turbo-cancer.

Acetaminophen, aka Tylenol, aka America’s favorite over-the-counter placebo with a liver warning, is widely used. Make that overused, in my opinion [1]. It’s taken by nearly everyone, including breastfeeding women.

If the title caught your eye, you and I probably share an annoying condition. Make that seriously annoying.

The use of molecular techniques to create genetically engineered (GE) crops has now returned to the over-regulation of a bygone era.

There are cancer scares and cancer scares.

Pseudoscience has recently been rampaging in the US. While much of it concerns vaccines, an "oldie" is again making the rounds: the myth that HIV is not the sole cause of AIDS.

When it comes to clinical trials of a norovirus vaccine – something that has been ongoing since the 1970s, it's the Wild West. The early vaccines were crude and the outcomes has been universally dismal.

From the frenzy of people who object to the use of mRNA technology in vaccines, one might conclude that genetic material from space aliens was being injected into people in some grand plan to convert humans into giant tadpoles.