BioEM2013: The Health Council of The Netherlands evaluation of epidemiology of RF & cancer

In the afternoon of Thursday, June 13th, Eric van Rongen presented evaluation of the epidemiological evidence done by The Health Council of The Netherlands. The process has begun before the 2011 IARC evaluation of the carcinogenicity of RF.  However, the … Continue reading →

Guest blog on SAR from Devra Davis of the Environmental Health Trust

These are comments, on the scientific issues that came up at BioEM2013, that Devra Davis submitted as a guest blog. The opinions expressed in it are of Devra Davis herself. Publication of these opinions in BRHP does not mean that BRHP agrees with … Continue reading →

BioEM2013: morning musings on June 13th

The day was opened with tutorial on genomic stability and signaling pathways. The first talk by Robert Kanaar had some interesting statements and suggestions. The spontaneously occurring DNA damage is very common in cells and it requires efficient repair mechanisms … Continue reading →

Tough life and hard choices for the Technical Program Committees

Recent BEMS meetings, and from now on always BEMS & EBEA meetings called BioEM, take place all over the world in many distant locations – for example 2010 BEMS was in Seoul, South Korea, 2012 BEMS was in Brisbane, Australia, … Continue reading →

Guest blog from Devra Davis of the Environmental Health Trust

These are comments, on the scientific issues that came up at BioEM2013, that Devra Davis submitted as a guest blog. The opinions expressed in it are of Devra Davis herself. Publication of these opinions in BRHP does not mean that BRHP … Continue reading →

BioEM2013: mixed bag of ideas from the day two of the meeting

The second day of the BioEM2013 opened with tutorial on systems biology. It left me somewhat unsatisfied. The first talk was bad. I got an impression that it was prepared by relatively novice to the field of systems biology. Searching … Continue reading →

BioEM2013: the infamous​ Danish Cohort… again…

On the first day of the meeting, in the epidemiology session was presented the just published UK million women study. In the introduction of this talk was briefly reviewed epidemiological evidence of the possible causal association between exposures to cell … Continue reading →