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In Vitro Lab Study on Sucralose Impurity Shows DNA Damage at Unrealistically High Doses; No Evidence of Human Toxicity at Normal Splenda Use
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for April 20, 2026 Source:Popular Sweetener Linked to DNA Damage – “It’s Something You Should Not Be Eating” Reference:Toxicological and pharmacokinetic properties of sucralose-6-acetate and its parent sucralose: in vitro screening assays The SciTechDaily article from April 16, 2026 summarizes a May 2023 lab study on sucralose-6-acetate.This is a manufacturing impurity in…
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Cats Genetic Datasets May Hold the Key to Treating Human Breast Cancer Due to Similar Gene Mutation
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for March 19, 2026 Source:Cats May Hold the Key to Treating Human Cancer Reference:The oncogenome of the domestic cat
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One-a-Day Keeps the Reaper… Four Months Away
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for March 18, 2026 Source:Daily multivitamin slows signs of biological ageing Reference:Effects of daily multivitamin–multimineral and cocoa extract supplementation on epigenetic aging clocks in the COSMOS randomized clinical trial
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B.C. man cured of rare disease in world-first for new gene-editing technology
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for February 27, 2026 Source:B.C. man cured of rare disease in world-first for new gene-editing technology Reference:Prime Editing for p47phox-Deficient Chronic Granulomatous Disease
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Blood of Exceptionally Long-Lived People Reveals Crucial Differences. However, there is a long way to go before this translates into clinical application.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for February 4, 2026 Source:Blood of Exceptionally Long-Lived People Reveals Crucial Differences Reference:The multiomics blueprint of the individual with the most extreme lifespanMetabolomic Signatures of Extreme Old Age: Findings from the New England Centenarian Study
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New Genetic Map Reveals How Thousands of Genes Drive Blood Disease
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for January 9, 2026 Source:New Genetic Map Reveals How Thousands of Genes Drive Disease Reference:Causal modelling of gene effects from regulators to programs to traits
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Your skin has a built-in cancer defense and sunlight turns the genetic protective mechanism off
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for December 2, 2025 Source:Your skin has a built-in cancer defense and sunlight turns it off Reference:YTHDF2 regulates self non-coding RNA metabolism to control inflammation and tumorigenesis
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A 25-year Crohn’s disease mystery seems to have been solved using AI to analyze a plethora of genomic data
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for November 19, 2025 Source:A 25-year Crohn’s disease mystery finally cracked by AI Reference:Distinct colitis-associated macrophages drive NOD2-dependent bacterial sensing and gut homeostasis.
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Epigenetic Switch to Turn Memories On and Off Created in Mice.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for November 14, 2025 Source:Epigenetic Switch to Turn Memories On and Off Created Reference:Cell-type and locus-specific epigenetic editing of memory expression