Some of the information in that article is untrue. People are patenting the rights for genetic testing of genes, not the genes themselves. It's a fine line, but it is a line. People do not need to ask to do research on BRCA2. People do need to ask to make a commercially available genetic screening kit for BRCA2.

Said it before, but I can't see my comment - gotta love the new submission set up.

"Don't have your prostate removed! You're mutilating your body, you don't even have cancer that bad yet!" Said no one.

I had a similar idea a while ago: Naked flights.

Then you'll enjoy this picture of him posing on roller blades!

Eden wants to make sure their female employees' eggs are free range.

I keep waiting to see someone make this point, but as it hasn't happened yet, so I guess I have to. There IS a racial component to this case. I've seen the pictures, I know the family reads as white, and they very well may be white, but in Halifax, Nova Scotia, the surname Parsons very strongly suggests black. If the…

I'm really sorry to jack this cat article, but this is the one with the fewest conversations going and I don't want my question to be lost.

I don't think that you're wrong. Generally, I'm against vigilantes.

I feel like this uncovers a whole other can of worms here- the serious, chronic under-reporting of sexual assault of minority women.

I'm going to wear these now.

it's defeatist to think modern medicine is some big money-loving conspiracy and not out to improve anyone's life. "just change your life" is a very naive statement you should refrain from phrasing as if it's not just as simplistic/idiotic as "just take a pill." people and situations vary. consult a professional.…

Pharmacist here - got to comment on the St. John's Wort. Yes, it can be effective for many people HOWEVER it also has many serious side-effects and drug interactions. Bottom line, just because it's OTC does not mean it is safe and make sure your pharmacist and physicians know you are taking it so you don't wind up…

"Ensuring the comfort" is actually a big deal. It's really, really uncomfortable to be an egg donor. You ovaries are rhe size of grapefruits, you can't exercise. You're sleepy and don't want to make your own meals. If I;m going to put my body through that for someone else, for free, they should compensate me for the…

OK- it depends on whether you're in Canada or the US. US- it's legal to pay an egg donor. In Canada it's not. Therefore, we have a bit of a donor shortage in Canada right now. I was a donor, BTW.

No they didn't. Freud went out slowly, kicking and screaming all the way. I worked with the chairman of the board of psychiatry of a hospital who retired 5 years ago - he STARTED working in the sixties and to the end of his working life was still as devout a Freudian as ever. Read Fear of Flying, written in the…

Weird to see them in regular clothes? Okay, I'll give you that. But they're supremely AWESOME at badass mirror fictional-sister selfies.

Monday, April 1, 2013

And a cup of good black coffee.

It exists, and it's called Uterus Universe.