Major Increase In MRI Before Prostate Biopsy - Is It Necessary?
An MRI changes whether a biopsy is needed and where the needles go. Is there a reason they aren't used more often?
If You Like Stories, Thank The Inventors Of Fire
Gather 'round, listeners, and learn of the storytelling ape.
Are You Your Brain Or Your Body?
A “racing heart,” “choked up” - language treats emotion and thought as if they inhabit the body. But why are events of the mind felt in the heart or stomach?
Dog Aging Project: Humans and Dogs Age A Lot Alike
Metabolites associated with earlier or later death in dogs behave in much the same way they have been shown in humans.
Fasting Linked To Faster Disease Accumulation
Intermittent fasting, and fasting in general, has been a popular fad health gimmick, but the science isn't on its side. Instead, proponents believe mice are little people so if mice weaned on starvation diets lived longer, people would also.
Major Genetic Weakness For Hybrid Breeding Revealed
Legacy hybrid corn breeding may be about to hit a crippling genetic roadblock.
Synthetic Ingredients Government Allows Inside Certified Organic Food
The USDA Organic certification was a mandate from the Clinton administration to create a way for his constituents in the organic food space to market their product as distinct from conventional food.
You Inherited Some Of Your DNA From Ghosts
We contain evidence of biological ghosts we know nothing about. They only haunt our DNA.
Does Social Inequality Make Women Exercise Less?
A longitudinal study of Black, Mixed, Asian, and Indigenous women determined that lower levels of education and other social inequality keeps them from exercising as much as white people.
44 Nysa - An Asteroid Now With Its Own Moon
Asteroid (44) Nysa, discovered in 1857 by astronomer Hermann Goldschmidt, has gotten a lot of study in the last 170 years but a recent analysis of data reveals it has its own moon.
Ezplaz: Freeze-Dried Plasma Gets FDA Approval
Vascular Solutions, LLC, has been given U.S. Food and Drug Authority authorization for its Ezplaz Freeze Dried Plasma for transfusion in adults.
PROTEXI Cancer Vaccine Platform Based On SARS-CoV-2 Immune Memory
A new cancer vaccine platform works by enhancing the ability of the immune system to recognize cancer by leveraging anti-viral memories it already has - due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the worst outbreak of the last 70 years.
Is Sparkling Water Bad For Your Teeth?
Sparkling water this decade is like baby formula of the 2010s; the target of a strange culture war that claims it has evidence of a public health crisis.
