Although I am always deeply concerned about how electromagnetic radiation (EMR) can affect our health, I also believe the human body, under the right conditions, has the capacity to protect itself against EMR to varying degrees. The challenge faced by many in their...
Cancer is fundamentally difficult to cure because of the diversity in tumor microenvironments. Hypoxia, or the lack of sufficient oxygen in the microenvironment, allows cancer cells to become heterogenous through epigenetic adaptation. Heterogeneity in cancer cells...
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1931 was awarded to Otto Heinrich Warburg “for his discovery of the nature and mode of action of the respiratory enzyme." The Nobel Lecture presented by Warburg on December 10, 1931 “The oxygen-transferring ferment of...
The 2019 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded jointly to William G. Kaelin Jr., Sir Peter J. Ratcliffe and Gregg L. Semenza for their discoveries of how cells sense and adapt to oxygen availability by using specific molecules that regulate the activity...
Lyme disease is the most common vector-borne disease in the Northern Hemisphere. The infection affects multiple organ systems, including the skin, joints, and the nervous system [1]. Borrelia burgdorferi, a member of the spirochete phylum, was first identified in...
Most of the deuterium in the universe could have been created during the first three minutes after the Big Bang, together with hydrogen, helium and lithium. The deuterium/hydrogen ratio on earth is considered to be higher than that of the general cosmic...