Smart Rats May Lead to Dementia Treatment

Recent research led by Joe Z. Tsien of the Medical College of Georgia has produced a super smart rat.  While the last thing the world needs is a smarter rat, the research may pave the way for treatments in...

Researchers Attempt to Outwit AIDS Virus

Promising new tools are being tried in the battle against the AIDS pandemic.  While researchers caution that the application of these tools to humans may be years away this new information promises yet...

Carbs to Fat Blocker: Gene DNA-PK Absence Reduces Body Fat by 40%

A gene known as DNA-PK has been identified as the gene that turns carbs into fat and researchers are hopeful that the discovery will help control soaring obesity rates.DNA-PK has offered researchers insight as to how the body converts carbs into fats.  The gene appears...

Man appears free of HIV after stem cell transplant

Man appears free of HIV after stem cell transplant by J Froeber of CNN. "The patient is fine," said Dr. Gero Hutter of Charite Universitatsmedizin Berlin in Germany. "Today, two years after his transplantation, he...

Researchers Find the Central Orchestrator in Bone and Tooth

A group of scientists, Drs. Jin Zhang and Qisheng Tu et al from Chen lab, Tufts University, attended the Gordon Research Conference (GRC) “Bones and Teeth” from July 15 to 20, 2007 in Biddeford, Maine. ...

Baby Blindness Gene Discovered

Leber Congenital Amaurosis (LCA), the most common form of blindness in infants and children affects approximately 1 out of 35 000 births [source], accounting for 5% of all hereditary retinal degenerations...

One Important Point Being Missed in Stem Cell Debate

"It has been Bush's only veto. Surrounded on stage by so-called 'snowflake babies' -- i.e., children produced from embryos implanted in the wombs of unrelated women -- the president said, "These boys and girls are...

More Votes Than Registered Voters

The mainstream media censored the vast majority of the evidence of fraud, so that most Americans to this day, have never heard a fraction of what was amiss.

Gene therapy frees men of cancer

"Two men have been cleared of deadly skin cancer using genetically modified versions of their own immune cells."

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