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09/09/2017 / By News Editors

Retroviruses: Poorly Understood Agents of Change

Investigating the alarming rise of chronic inflammatory diseases Chronic inflammatory diseases have been skyrocketing in incidence in the past quarter century. The details explaining how retroviruses in today’s biological therapeutics including vaccines are contributing to autoimmune, neuroimmune disease and cancer are complex. Although I’ve spent my adult lifetime studying how retroviruses contribute to these diseases, […]

08/06/2017 / By Isabelle Z.

Scientists admit they really have no idea what 75% of human genetic code is actually used for

A new study has found that three-fourths of the human genome is non-functional or “junk DNA,” which might mean it doesn’t do anything … or it could just mean that scientists have no idea what it is used for yet. They do know, however, what it doesn’t do: These garbled sequences of nucleotides do not […]

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