If 95% of children were to be breastfed, we could prevent 823,000 child deaths (half of total anual child deaths) and 20,000 breast cancer deaths anually. No other single solution has the power to reduce child mortality to such a significant extent. But, currently only about 30% of women exclusively…

A guide to producing proteins Cell-Free Protein production of Immunglobulin A for insertion into infant formula — I’ve been researching breastmilk for a few months now, for the purpose of figuring out a way we can produce this extremely complex fluid outside of the human body, or at least synthesize some of it’s components. Breastmilk contains around 2,500 different components. This is mostly water (87%), carbs, primarily…

Every single doctor and article out there will always say “Breast is best”. But I want change that, by changing the way we approach infant formula. — The stigma attached to mothers who do not breastfeed has gotten so bad, that there are entire groups of “breastfeeding bullies”. Unfortunately, if we take away the lack of respect, empathy, and inclusiveness of these people, for the most part they are correct. And so are the articles and doctors…

65% of my mom’s side of the family has had cancer and for 50% of them, cancer was the cause of their death. It sucks. In the grand scheme of things, cancer was around for 243 million years before the first humanoids came to life, and since then, has been…

Almost 3 years ago I was in a car accident where the car flipped over 4 times. It’s been 1030 days and I can still run the entire accident in my head. I was told if I were not in an SUV, I would have been carried out of that…

“The first person to live to 1,000 years is already born.” Says Aubrey De Grey, the Chief Science Officer of the SENS Research Foundation (a company working to prevent and reverse age-related ill-health). So it could be you, or maybe me, or maybe your neighbour Gimmy, but Aubrey De Grey…