Human pheromones: RNA-mediated theory killers
A Fear of Pheromones Excerpt: WHAT are we going to do if it turns out that we have pheromones? What on earth would we be […]
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Olfaction, ecology, and intelligence
“I should think we might fairly gauge the future of biological science, centuries ahead by estimating the time it will take to reach a complete […]
Rejecting what is known about viral microRNAs and nutrient-dependent microRNAs
Of Cells and Limits Leonard Hayflick has been unafraid to speak his mind, whether it is to upend a well-entrenched dogma or to challenge the […]
Epigenetically-effected metabolic shifts and ecological adaptations
Epigenetics of Trained Innate Immunity: Documenting the epigenetic landscape of human innate immune cells reveals pathways essential for training macrophages. By Ruth Williams | September […]
Memory of repression and memory of behavior (2)
“Mutations that become so common that they affect more than 1% of a population are called polymorphisms (for example, the human blood types A, B, […]
Vitamin A causes mutations (or not)
Vitamin A’s Influence on Immunity Exposure to vitamin A in the womb influences immune system development and lifelong ability to fight infections, a mouse study […]
Nutrients pheromones and cancer
Watson dings genetics, Irish, fellow Nobelist By Gary Robbins2:45 p.m.March 21, 2013 Pheromones and cancer Excerpt 1: “most of the experiments we do are irrelevant […]
The cause of colony collapse could be a message for all of us
“The honeybee is a model organism for understanding the epigenetic link from food odors and social odors to neural networks of the mammalian brain, which ultimately determine human behavior.”