Health

Cancer is a very large and costly, in terms of lives and money, problem that the world faces. Recently, a new cancer “vaccine” is about…
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Human life has always depended on natural resources. Nature provides our housing, food, fragrances, and oils, and is our pharmacy. It remains the basis of…
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“The physician must … have two special objects in view with regard to disease, namely, to do good or to do no harm” (Hippocratic Corpus,…
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Plants produce and build up triacylglycerol (TAG, familiar to most people as vegetable oils) in their seeds as a main carbon and energy resource for…
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Medicine, like other areas of human activity, is full of paradoxes. Unfortunately, paradoxes in medicine are often associated with wrenching cost – human lives. While…
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Noncompressible torso hemorrhage (NCTH) is a significant cause of mortality in both civilian and military settings. NCTH is a high-grade injury present in the pulmonary,…
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RNA transcription in eukaryotic organisms occurs in the nucleus of the cell where the cell’s DNA is located. In prokaryotic organisms that lack a membrane-bound nucleus,…
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A human body contains about 37 trillion (3.7 X 1013) cells [1] that originated from a single zygote. This developmental process is precisely controlled by…
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Exposure to blue light, which has shorter wavelengths than types of light, can damage our eyes over time. Blue light contributes to macular degeneration, which…
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The function of the mitochondria in both plant and animal cells is to produce energy for the cell via ATP production as part of the…
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Mitosis is the process that allows cells to reproduce and copy themselves, by copying the DNA of the cell and creating two separate sets of…
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