It is a cheap, safe, readily available mild acid.聽聽It is ideal for the generation of carbon dioxide from baking soda.聽聽In fact, one version of baking powder is a mixture of sodium bicarbonate and...
On a recent trip to the U.S. I perused the menu and decided on a cheese sandwich. When I queried the waitress about the kind of cheese involved, I was told, 鈥淎merican!鈥� I replied I was interested...
Malaria, AIDS, hepatitis, herpes, cancer.聽聽Terrible diseases.聽聽That鈥檚 why thousands and thousands of scientists around the world, armed with advanced degrees, are engaged in research projects aimed...
Rarely does a single event alter the course of medicine, but that is exactly what happened at Boston鈥檚 Massachusetts General Hospital on October 16, 1846 in the surgical theatre that would...
During a public lecture on genetic modification I described an experiment that involved enriching soybeans with the amino acid methionine. Soybeans are widely used to raise animals but are low in...
They were once mistakenly thought to be caused by a disease of the liver, so they are called 鈥渓iver spots.鈥� Actually these skin blemishes are caused by a buildup of the skin pigment melanin and are...
