Image source   Opinion: Zed Flanders They should make sure introducing these bugs will not harm the ecosystem in the keys, but I am for it if it stops these diseases from spreading. I draw the line for gmo products at things people eat or ingest , but outside of that gmo products have a lot of

  Image source   Opinion: Angela Shortt God bless him. He lived a full, very fascinating life. And there are untold millions of grateful women around the world who had created better lives for themselves as the result of his pioneering discovery. They probably don't know his name, but they are

Today marks the 350th anniversary of the onslaught of the Great Plague which decimated businesses and communities and saw as many as 10,000 people die every day.The panic began on February 12, 1665. Exactly 350 years ago this week in a house in London’s Drury Lane, a man died unexpectedly. His

Coles, 54, is using his own money to build a Cambridge, Mass.-based startup called Yumanity that is using yeast, the microbes that help make bread and beer, to study how misfolded proteins in the brain cause Alzheimer’s, Lou Gehrig’s disease and Parkinson’s, and to create drugs based on that

This month, geneticists reported that they have reconstructed the genome of Yersinia pestis, the bacterium that causes bubonic plague, recovered from remains at East Smithfield. The sequence — the first from an ancient bacterial pathogen — may help to explain how a disease could wreak so much