On behalf of Randy and myself I just wanted to thank all conference attendees who have sent in commentaries on the many sessions. I think, in all, I received and posted 19 commentaries – a terrific response! Randy and I hoped that we would get good science...
A really interesting story appears in today’s New York Times, written by Moises Velasquez-Manoff, who is the author of “An Epidemic of Absence: A New Way of Understanding Allergies and Autoimmune Diseases.” The article...
In this fascinating paper, Matteo Costa-Mattioli, and his post-doc, Shelly Buffington, from the Baylor College of Medicine, have investigated the relationship between maternal obesity, the gut microbiome, and autism spectrum disorders in offspring. It is known that...
Just over six years ago a paper was published in PLoS 1, under the title “The Alzheimer’s disease-related amyloid-beta protein is an anti-microbial peptide”, written by Stephanie Soscia and Robert Moir of Harvard University. It contained the seeds of a revolutionary...
My eyes boggled earlier this week as I leafed through The Guardian newspaper and came across the story of an Indian woman who had just had her IVF baby boy safely delivered. The woman, Daljinder Kaur, was reported to be 72 years old – her husband, Mohinder Singh...
