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It was the 1960鈥檚 and cheese producers were cheesed off. People were just not eating enough veal. Slaughterhouses were running short of calf stomachs and the cheese industry was feeling the pinch....
In a lab in Rochester, New York, a group of scientists were trying to grow cells taken from a naked mole rat. Instead, they ended up with a petri dish full of goo. The cells had secreted a thick,...
Would you allow someone to draw your blood out, expose it to ultraviolet light, and pump it back into your body, even if I told you it wouldn鈥檛 turn you into the Incredible Hulk?
On a future field trip to Mount Royal, I imagine opening up my lunch box to find a small forest of fried insects flavoured with MSG and curry powder. On the side are some salmon rice balls. Noting...
Let鈥檚 say I am afflicted by a common but non-life-threatening condition. I shall refer to this fictional misfortune as 鈥渃hin gribbles.鈥� I have chin gribbles. Many people have chin gribbles. It鈥檚...
My first laboratory job was right after earning my Master鈥檚 degree, and it was on a research project on Alzheimer鈥檚 disease. I had to test DNA samples from participants for a particular form of the...
鈥淏oil the nipples!鈥� was the advice given in 1984 by the Food and Drug Administration in the U.S. to parents who were bottle feeding their infants or calming them with pacifiers. The presence of...
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