Bernard Smith, Cold Warrior

Stan Glantz, tobacco warrior.

Stan Glantz’s voice carries the conviction and decibel level one would associate with a man who, with a handful of other courageous souls, has stood up to the mighty tobacco industry. A man who has played a key role in revealing to the world how over the past four decades tobacco executives have concealed the findings of their own scientists that tobacco kills and that nicotine is addictive. Ye...

YHWH is a Warrior

The Male-Warrior Hypothesis

Evolutionary scientists argue that human cooperation is the product of a long history of competition among rival groups. There are various reasons to believe that this logic applies particularly to men. In three experiments, using a step-level public-goods task, we found that men contributed more to their group if their group was competing with other groups than if there was no intergroup compe...

Bernard Wood

Photo: Courtesy of Bill Kimbel. The benefit could also apply to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). While the mechanism by which the gene therapy triggers these beneficial effects remains to be elucidated, this unexpected finding suggests that even gene therapy for rare specific gene defects may in some cases have broader applicability. Recent developments have broadened the scope of gene ther...

CMV: a warrior against leukemia?

In this issue of Blood, Green et al provide additional information supporting that cytomegalovirus (CMV) reduces leukemia relapse after allogeneic stem cell transplantation.