In last week’s column I suggested humans were most capable of learning novel cognitive and motor skills, and were most creative, between the teenage...
Beginning in Africa several million years ago, mammoths reached much of Eurasia, and eventually 20,000 years ago, the Americas.
Some mammoths developed a rich covering...
In biology, structure dictates function.
That’s certainly the case with protein-encoding genes: the sequence of bases in a specific gene dictates the sequence of bases in...
The scene was surreal on Dec. 30: just a few blocks from the Niagara Long-Term Care Residence where my wife resides, streets and stores were crowded with...
It wasn’t so long ago that some were upset by women wearing the niqab. Now, nearly two years into this pandemic, distancing, social bubbles and face...
Sometimes, a rare disease can teach us a lot about treating more common diseases.
Such is the case for a disease called transthyretin amyloidosis, which...
