“Tests on mothers’ milk in both monkeys and humans have showed that levels of fat, protein, vitamins, sugars, minerals and hormones vary enormously, but there is evidence that milk made […]
Tag: Evolution
Blissed-Out Fish on Prozac
“According to the USGS, pharmaceutical traces can be found in 80 percent of United States streams.”
Scientists find that common dietary elements cure lethal infections
“Salk Institute researchers report that giving mice dietary iron supplements enabled them to survive a normally lethal bacterial infection and resulted in later generations of those bacteria being less virulent.”
Potential CRISPR damage has been ‘seriously underestimated’
“The DNA damage found in the new study included deletions of thousands of DNA bases, including at spots far from the edit. Some of the deletions can silence genes that […]
Administering hormones affects DNA
“researchers have demonstrated for the first time that the administration of even extremely low doses of an endocrine disruptor – in this case, an endogenous oestrogen – leads to epigenetic […]
Endocrine-disrupting pesticides impair frog reproduction
“The scientists found that linuron, which is used as a pesticicide, impaired the males’ fertility, and that tadpoles developed ovaries instead of testicles to a greater extent, which caused a […]
Painkillers in pregnancy may affect baby’s future fertility
“The study identifies that these drugs may also affect the fertility of future generations, by leaving marks on DNA.
How flu shot manufacturing forces influenza to mutate
“According to a new study from scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI), the common practice of growing influenza vaccine components in chicken eggs disrupts the major antibody target site […]
Gut bacteria found to trigger gene that protects against type 1 diabetes
“Researchers have discovered that a powerful guardian gene known to protect against a variety of autoimmune diseases, including type 1 diabetes, is triggered by the bacteria in our gut. This […]
Researchers see atrazine affecting health across generations
“Observations indicate that although atrazine does not promote disease in the directly exposed F1 [first] generation, it does have the capacity to promote the epigenetic transgenerational inheritance of disease in […]