Is Your Genome Eating Better Than You Are? So, you’ve probably seen the ads—the ones promising that if you just send a vial of spit to a lab, they’ll tell you exactly why you can’t lose those last five pounds or why you’re a jittery mess after a single espresso. That’s the "Wild West" of nutrigenomics, a field that’s currently trying to bridge the gap between hard-core molecular biology and t...

Haney's Welcome (Click image below) Is It Ancient Magic Or Just Opportunistic Infection? Picture this: It's 1922, and English archaeologist Howard Carter just cracked open King Tut’s tomb, unleashing what the tabloids dramatically dubbed the "mummy’s curse" after a bunch of high-profile visitors mysteriously dropped dead. For a century, people thought ancient pharaohs were out here dealing ...

Haney's Welcome (Click image below) Why Menstrual Blood is Liquid Gold For decades, we’ve been extracting adult stem cells the hard way—jamming Jamshidi needles into the iliac crest or performing surgical biopsies like we’re mining for coal. Meanwhile, half the population has been casually shedding multipotent mesenchymal stem cells every 28 days. About 20 years ago, biologist Caroline Gar...