Join our directors of bio-sciences and medicine Cameron English and Dr. Chuck Dinerstein as they break down these stories on episode 21 of the Science Dispatch podcast.
Parkinson's
Environmental activist groups and trial lawyers have launched a new campaign in their legal effort to restrict access to synthetic pesticides.
For the better part of six years, anti-GMO groups circled the wagons around a single message: the weed killer Roundup (glyphosate) causes cancer, specifically Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma (NHL).
The causes of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS or Lou Gehrig's disease) and Parkinson's disease are not known.
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By age 50 years, 10% of individuals with normal cognitive function are storing amyloid in their brain, and by age 90