The explosion of NIL deals — name, image and likeness rights — completely changed the landscape of sports endorsements forever. For the first time, college athletes like those playing football started getting paid alongside the schools that reaped the benefits of their talents with massive broadcast rights deals worth billions…
Senate Republicans on Thursday blocked a bill to protect access to in vitro fertilization, the latest in a series of votes Democrats are holding to box in the GOP ahead of the election. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and half a dozen Senate Democrats said it won’t be the end of the story…
Messengers to the Southern Baptist Convention passed a resolution Wednesday that calls on lawmakers to restrict in vitro fertilization and urges couples to exercise caution considering IVF because the process involves “frozen embryonic human beings.”…
Researchers analyzing DNA at ancient Mayan city of Chichén Itzá, a site for human sacrifices, found that young boys, including twins, were buried in a mass grave there…
In 1967, construction workers at a new airport near the ancient Maya city of Chichen Itza in Mexico made a startling discovery. While excavating, they unearthed human remains in the proposed runway area, halting the project…
Senate Republicans rejected another Democratic election-year messaging bill on reproductive issues Thursday, this one focused on protecting access to in vitro fertilization…
In just the past few days, it seems as if the world has become serious about H5N1 influenza, otherwise known as bird flu. There’s even informed speculation by some qualified scientists that human-to-human transmission is likely already occurring. Food safety and public health are not yet big concerns. …
In an unusual outbreak of human trichinellosis in July 2022, six people from three states—Arizona, Minnesota, and South Dakota—were diagnosed with the parasitic disease after consuming bear meat at a family gathering in South Dakota. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently confirmed the outbreak…
An analysis of reviews of translational biomedical research reveals that just 5% of therapies tested in animals reach regulatory approval for human use. The umbrella review summarizes other systematic reviews and provides high level evidence that while the rate of translation to human studies is 50%…
Bondex, an independent crowdsourcing recruitment app based out of the United Kingdom (UK), has secured a strategic investment from Animoca Brands, the company advancing digital property rights for gaming and the open metaverse, to fuel its platform, which hosts over 1.5 million monthly active users. Bondex puts a spotlight on recruitment referrals with a gamified…