Blog Posts in January, 2016

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  • Transporting Stem Cells Around the World
    Transporting Stem Cells Around the World

    A press release came out on Jan 29 th from Newcastle University in Great Britain, announcing the discovery that stem cells can be transported at low cost on a bed of seaweed gel which protects them ...

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  • A Little Teflon With Your Lipitor® and Your Chemo?
    A Little Teflon With Your Lipitor® and Your Chemo?

    The New York Times Magazine published an article about a corporate lawyer who took on DuPont Chemicals when he realized that perfluorochemical waste that they were dumping into a 66 acre landfill in ...

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  • FAQ Stems Cells/Stem Cell Therapy
    FAQ Stems Cells/Stem Cell Therapy

    What is a stem cell? Stem cells are our own body’s ancestor cells which can – in theory – become building cells for any organ of the body. Stem cells begin to develop as soon as the blastula, that ...

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  • Just because it's on the Internet...
    Just because it's on the Internet...

    Remember the old saying: “Just because it’s in print doesn’t make it true”? The same thing holds for what we read on the Internet – on WebMD, on Wikipedia, on Quackbusters. All these resources purport ...

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  • GMO Foods Q & A
    GMO Foods Q & A

    Over 60 countries have banned GMOs, Why? Why haven’t we banned them in the U.S? Do you think we should ban them? Why? Do you think consumers understand what a GMO is? What foods have the most GMOs in ...

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  • Campbell's to Label GMO Ingredients in Their Products
    Campbell's to Label GMO Ingredients in Their Products

    I have a child who grew up on Cheerios.Little did I know the impact of wheat (let alone sugar) on her brain and her gut. And those foods, in those days, did not contain genetically modified products, ...

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