Life Science

Article from today’s NY Times reflects different points of view about cancer prevention. After you get past stopping smoking there is more ambivalence and confusion about what is preventable. Often the public has an exaggerated sense of cancer risk, so they may not have an accurate perception of what nutrition, for instance, and weght reduction can do to reduce risk. ...

On the road to “personalized medicine” it’s going to be necessary to drill down past some of our old generalities and look at some subtle differences. Here’s a new institute at Georgetown U to study differences of medical significance between men and women. Differences between men and women with biological significance include a lot more than the obvious.

Mercury News | 12/02/2003 | Panel: U.S. science leadership at stake

The December issue of Scientific American finishes its two-part article about parts of the genome that have definite influences on how genes are expressed and how health may be affected as a consequence. Last month’s episode explained why some stretches of DNA thought to be “junk”—DNA accumulated down through evolution but having no contemporary impact on what happens in our ...