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Cancer Evolution: Can Death Reveal the Logic of Life?

When a theory of biology asks us to see death, breakdown, and negation as creative, it is no longer describing reality. It is inverting it.

Another Mystery of How Childbirth Works Discovered

As we learn more about the human body, its complexity becomes increasingly apparent.

Autism and Acetaminophen: Update

Subjectivity in secondary research retains the confounding factors present in observational studies.

Autism, Acetaminophen, and Human Genetic Health

Critics may prefer silence until proof arrives. But silence is also a policy choice—with consequences.

Engineers Look to Fish for Microplastics Filter Design

Microplastic filters designed from fish gills are found to be over 99% efficient, surpassing present plastic filter technologies.

Junk DNA Is Slowly Revealing Its Secrets

A CRISPR study found another important use of once-labeled “Junk DNA."

SCT: How Cells Play the Genetic Instrument

The genome is like a finely tuned piano. But what plays it? Read about the pianist here.

SCT: How Cells Prepare for Emergencies

Spartans, incredible hulks, and oarsmen are some of the first responders to a crisis.

New Sensor Lets Researchers Watch DNA Repair Itself in Real Time

DNA repair systems suppress mutations, the supposed raw material for evolution.

New Films Dazzle With Awe About the Human Body

Body systems are wondrous in isolation, but they have to work with multiple body systems.

Junk DNA Can Fight Cancer

Scientists now declare that parts of human DNA formerly thought of as “junk” have cancer-fighting properties.

SCT: Centrioles Do Networking

"Every second, trillions of times over, your body pulls off something that’s nothing short of miraculous."

Were Leeches Originally Parasites?

Rare fossil leech feasted not on blood but on smaller marine creatures.

When Positive Selection Is Negative for Health

A paper touts "positive selection" repeatedly but really is about degradation and genetic disease.

SCT: Intelligent Design Wins a Nobel Prize

This article by the CEH editor discusses the 2025 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine.
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