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...over genetically engineered "frankenfoods" that has taken Europe by storm in recent months appears to be headed across the Atlantic. After a Cornell researcher reported in May that genetically altered corn crops were killing off the monarch butterfly, now comes an article in a top British medical journal, The Lancet, that links modified potatoes to intestinal problems in lab rats. Although the article is accompanied by an editor's note describing the findings as "preliminary" and cautions that they should not be used to make generalizations about genetically modified (GM) crops, they are being seized upon by the U.S. natural...
...definitive scientific evidence to connect any vaccines to the still mysterious behavioral disorder. Indeed, doctors claim that the onset of autism often occurs in toddlers at the same time they are scheduled for shots and is likely to be entirely coincidental. A recent study in the journal Lancet found that in Britain rates of the disorder are similar among vaccinated and unvaccinated children...
Sources--Good News: New England Journal of Medicine (July 8, 1999), Lancet (July 10, 1999); Bad News: 1 and 2, Emerging Infectious Diseases (July...
...analysis of Einstein's brain by Canadian scientists, reported in the current Lancet, reveals that it has some distinctive physical characteristics after all. A portion of the brain that governs mathematical ability and spatial reasoning--two key ingredients to the sort of thinking Einstein did best--was significantly larger than average and may also have had more interconnections among its cells, which could have allowed them to work together more effectively. While the case is far from proven, says Dr. Francine Benes, director of the Structural Neuroscience Laboratory at McLean Hospital in Belmont, Mass., "it's a fascinating discovery...
Sources--Good News: Epidemiology (5/99); Journal of the American Medical Association (4/13/99); Bad News: the Lancet (4/10/99); Circulation (4/13/99...