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How Lume Whole Body Deodorant Was Inspired by a Genetic Disease

PLOS: DNA Science

Among the barrage of drug ads for cancer, diabetes, weight loss and more are those for Lume , a “doctor-developed whole body deodorant.” The earliest patent I found was issued in late 2009, for “Products and Methods for Reducing Malodor from the Pudendum.” ” For everyone. .” ” Lady parts. .”

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Raising Welfare for Lab Rodents

Codon

It may seem that if researchers are sufficiently concerned about the welfare of lab animals, the best thing to do would be to stop using animals altogether. However, a multitude of factors—from institutional inertia to a global animal-testing industry worth billions of dollars —make this outcome unlikely.

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