Nicole Karlis
Senior Writer at Salon
Senior writer @Salon, focus on health, wellness and science. Tips [email protected]. Be kind. Mom. She/her.
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4 weeks ago |
organicconsumers.org | Organic Bytes |Wyatte Grantham-Philips |Nicole Karlis |Adrienne Lamb
Organic BytesNewsletter #888: GMOs Should Not Be GRAS! On March 10, 2025, Health & Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., promised to close the “generally recognized as safe” (GRAS) loophole that allows dangerous food additives to enter the marketplace without premarket safety testing.
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1 month ago |
salon.com | Nicole Karlis
On a tiny island called Cayo Santiago off the coast of Puerto Rico exists a colony of about 1,800 rhesus macaques. Each weighing about 20 pounds and known for their sand-colored fluffy tails, the monkeys that inhabit this island today are descendants of those brought over by primatologist Clarence Carpenter in the late 1930s. Since then, they have helped primatologists, evolutionary biologists, and scientists of all kinds better understand primate behavior in a unique natural laboratory setting.
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2 months ago |
salon.com | Nicole Karlis
According to the New York Times, scientists at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) were ordered to pull out any pending research submitted to publications that mention the terms “pregnant people,” “transgender,” “LGBT,” and “immigrant.” In an email viewed by The New York Times, the CDC’s associate director for science, Sam Posner, directed employees to remove research papers “that promote or inculcate gender ideology or that have been flagged as at risk for such.” In the...
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2 months ago |
salon.com | Nicole Karlis
Zika, a mosquito-borne virus first identified in 1947 in a Rhesus macaque monkey, continues to perplex scientists in many ways nearly 80 years later. While many people with a Zika virus infection won’t have symptoms, it is very dangerous to pregnant women. That’s because an infection during pregnancy can cause microcephaly, which is when a baby's head is much smaller than expected, and other congenital malformations like limb contractures, high muscle tone, eye abnormalities, and hearing loss.
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2 months ago |
msn.com | Nicole Karlis
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