Category: Genetics
“Good” Cholesterol Not So Good After All, New Study Shows
Written by: Peter Murray 14 hours ago
The revelation that high-density lipoprotein, or HDL, is the “good cholesterol” has suffered a major blow. A meta-study involving over [...]
New Study Shows Gene Therapy For HIV Safe After A Decade
Written by: Peter Murray 2 days ago
A clinical trial testing a gene therapy for HIV patients is now 11 years old. Recently, the researchers running the [...]
Scientists Make Bird Flu Transmissible Between Humans Then Tell World How To Do It
Written by: Peter Murray 5 days ago
The emergence of the avian flu in 2003 caused alarm around the world as it spread through countries in Asia, [...]
Controversial Anti-Aging Chemical Resveratrol Back In The Spotlight With New Details About How It Works
Written by: Peter Murray 10 days ago
Resveratrol, the famed anti-aging supplement extracted from red wine, has experienced its share of controversy. An experimental artifact, a pair [...]
Same Kidney Transplanted Twice
Written by: Peter Murray 22 days ago
Twenty-seven-year-old Ray Fearing suffered from focal segmental glomerulosclerosis (FSGS), a common type of kidney disease, and needed a new kidney. [...]
Regenokine: The Unproven Treatment That Professional Athletes Are Flying To Germany For
Written by: Peter Murray 27 days ago
Kobe Bryant did it. Alex Rodriguez did it. Golfer Fred Couples did it, even the late Pope John Paul II [...]
Drug To Diagnose Alzheimer’s Disease Receives FDA Approval
Written by: Peter Murray 34 days ago
Pharmaceutical giant Eli Lily just got FDA approval on a chemical that would enable clinicians to detect a biological marker [...]
New Bedside Genetic Screen Yields Results In An Hour
Written by: David J. Hill 39 days ago
A new point-of-care system accurately screens a patient’s DNA for a single gene in an hour. The shoebox-sized device from Canadian-based Spartan [...]
Group Set To Sequence 1000 Genomes By The End Of The Year
Written by: Peter Murray 47 days ago
When the Human Genome Project got underway in 1990 it was expected to take 15 years to sequence the over [...]
Singularity University To Incubate Synthetic Biology Startups With New Program
Written by: Aaron Saenz 54 days ago
Synthetic biology is poised to become one of the big technologies of the 21st Century – a game changing area [...]
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Amazon Goes Robotic, Acquires Kiva Systems, Makers Of The Warehouse Robot
Written by: Peter Murray 61 days ago
In a move that makes so much sense one wonders why it didn’t happen sooner, Amazon has acquired Kiva Systems, [...]
Raising The Mammoth – Russian And Korean Scientists Set Out To Bring Back The Extinct Giant
Written by: Peter Murray 62 days ago
South Korean and Russian scientists have agreed on a project right out of “Jurassic Park.” Maybe not as cool as [...]
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Weight Loss Pill Recommended By FDA Panel, Company’s Stock Doubles
Written by: Peter Murray 82 days ago
Want to lose weight? Well now there’s a drug that allows you to shed ten percent of your body weight [...]
turtles_allthewaydown
Nehopsa - As you know, science was badly burned on this subject before. It's a pretty extraordinay claim, so until they have extraordinary proof, I imagine [...]
Bento
Well, maybe this can help :) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtZTIwSIuGw I like your humor, we will see, I am an 'agnostic' concerning the Ecat. There is something, LENR is real, that's for [...]
nehopsa
...so by now the Greeks should be repaying their national debt/saving on their energy outlays with abundance of free energy. The first commercial free energy power plant [...]