Study Questions Application of Animal Experiments to Humans
Jonathan Latham and Allison Wilson Much of science, including healthcare research and important fields of risk assessment, depend, in part or in whole, on the presumption that animal models can...
View ArticleThe Great DNA Data Deficit: Are Genes for Disease a Mirage?
Just before his appointment as head of the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), Francis Collins, the most prominent medical geneticist of our time, had his own genome scanned for disease...
View Article23andMe disproves its own business model
Jonathan Latham Online gene testing company 23andMe last week published its first genetic research study into Parkinson’s Disease. The study was funded by the participants (many of whom are customers...
View ArticlePsychiatrists plead to continue funding of genetic approaches to disease
Jonathan Latham Ninety six leading psychiatric geneticists have publicly requested their scientific funding agencies not to abandon the search for genetic links to mental health. In a letter, published...
View ArticleBiology as Ideology: The Doctrine of DNA
Author: by Richard Lewontin ISBN: 0140232192 Publisher: Penguin books (1991) Biologists know that complex traits are typically associated with genetic variation between individuals. Nevertheless, if we...
View ArticleThe Experiment Is on Us: Science of Animal Testing Thrown into Doubt
by Pat Dutt and Jonathan Latham, PhD New scientific research has cast grave doubt on the safety testing of hundreds of thousands of consumer products, food additives and industrial chemicals. Everyday...
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