The 2003 announcement that the Human Genome Project was complete marked an important point in medical history. 20 universities and a lot of government spending yielded 92% of our genes sequenced with 99.99% accuracy, giving us a view of our DNA that was impossible only a short time ago. The benefits of this knowledge are […]

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We are still discovering how various everyday chemicals affect life forms of all kinds, including us. A subset of this investigation looks at heavy metals, a term adopted with the study of minerals such as lead and mercury, both of which are denser than iron and have high environmental concern. Since then “heavy metal” has […]

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