Category: Medicine
Another Layer of Defense: The Adaptive Immune System
Helping the rest of the immune system, the adaptive immune system brings extra intelligence, firepower, and precision accuracy to the field of battle.
Junk DNA: Is Preventing Breast Cancer a Function?
Score another function for non-coding DNA. Without this “junk,” cells proliferate and spread, causing cancer.
The Push Begins to Violate Religious Objections to Assisted Suicide
Forcing a Catholic hospital (say) to employ or give staffing privileges to death doctors would violate the free exercise of religion.
The Body as a Battlefield: Proteins of the Innate Immune System
These proteins bring other immune cells to the field of battle, make neutrophils and macrophages more effective, and fight invading microbes.
Brave New World, Here We Come
This is 21st-century eugenics — and it will, in the end, become just as oppressive and anti-human equality as the original version.