When I was a kid one of my favourite tv shows was Taz-Mania, Taz’s short temper and weird way of speaking were great and the juxtaposition of his super middle-class family was hilarious. At the time I don’t think I was even aware that the Tasmanian Devil was a real animal or that Tasmania was… Read More Devil Facial Tumour Disease: First Resistant Individuals Discovered
As I was writing my last post about interpreting medical data I was reminded of a legal case from earlier this year. A court in Missouri in the US ruled that a lady’s ovarian cancer was caused by her use of talcum powder produced by Johnson & Johnson. The lady herself had died due to… Read More Talc Does Not Cause Cancer
It has been over a decade since the first draft of the human genome was completed. I was in my final year studying genetics and it seemed like it was only a matter of time until we had a cure for everything from cancer to cystic fibrosis. As you may have noticed, progress has not… Read More Gene Therapy Cure for Childhood Cancer
