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Interesting article (click link) in The Singapore Straits Times today on a topic of increasing relevance to Singaporeans as they grapple with demographic challenges with respect to native population maintenance. With advanced economic development and increasing work-place participation of women, birth rates have been falling steadily and are now below natural population replacement rates causing [...]

On Monday, October 4, the Nobel committee at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden awarded the 2010 Prize for Physiology or Medicine to 85-year-old British physician Dr. Robert G. Edwards for the development of techniques that led to in vitro fertilization (IVF). His clinical work resulted in the first IVF birth of Louise Brown on July [...]

Interesting article Medco Expands Push to Better Match Patients to Drugs With Genetic Testing posted in Seeking Alpha by Michael Fitzhugh from The Burrill Report. Quick quote: “Medco, which already uses genetic testing to help guide usage of the blood thinner warfarin and the breast cancer drug tamoxifen, in February acquired the San Francisco-based genetic [...]

In the short article “Wild East or Scientific Feast?” published in the January 14, 2010 issue of The Economist, the author highlights the flourish in stem cell science in China as measured by papers published in respected, internationally peer-reviewed journals. In contrast to such solid and honest scientific advances, some of which impact my own [...]

Here is a copy of an email I received from a friend the other day (all bold emphasis is mine): Begin forwarded message: From: Chetan xxxxxxxx Date: February 9, 2010 11:51:46 PM SST To: Tej Deol Subject: 2 cokes a day… You were saying that there is no issue drinking several cokes a day… the [...]