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Havasupai Tribe sued Arizona State University after scientists took tissue samples the tribe donated for diabetes research and used them without consent to study schizophrenia and inbreeding.
Rebecca Skloot • The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
The article also provides an interesting revelation in the admission that, “The conflicting aspect of the true morphology of the bacterium in natural environment and observed morphology in laboratory conditions always posed questions to microbiologists.”
Dawn Lester • What Really Makes You Ill?: Why Everything You Thought You Knew About Disease Is Wrong
Matt Ridley • How Innovation Works: And Why It Flourishes in Freedom
The ribosome is your turntable, the mRNA is the vinyl LP record, and the protein is the music you hear when you lower the needle.
Thomas R. Cech • The Catalyst: RNA and the Quest to Unlock Life's Deepest Secrets
One arsenic-based ‘medicine’ is the substance called arsphenamine, which is also known as Salvarsan and as compound 606. Salvarsan is significant for a few reasons, one of which is that it replaced mercury ointments in the treatment of syphilis. Another is that Salvarsan is considered to have been the first ‘effective’ treatment for syphilis, which
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Marc Milstein • The Age-Proof Brain
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