Teenagers are more likely to develop drinking problems if their mothers are depressed and drink regularly. The findings come from University of Queensland researchers who tracked alcohol related disorders of children through adulthood as part of one of the world’s longest health studies.
Theoretical chemists who spend much of their time calculating how the exotic rules of quantum mechanics govern electrons motion between and through biological molecules have garnered surprising results when they add water to their models. They have discovered that a scant handful of water molecules positioned in the nearly infinitesimal gap between two “docking” proteins creates unexpectedly favorable conditions for electrons to “tunnel” from one protein to another.
A human DNA-associated protein called LEDGF is the first such molecule found to control the location of HIV integration in human cells, according to a new study from researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. This study, published in this week’s early online edition of Nature Medicine, describes the first clear target for modulating where viruses insert into the human genome, which has implications for better design of gene-therapy delivery. Retroviral vectors are often used to introduce therapeutic genetic sequences into human chromosomes, such as in the delivery of Factor VIII for hemophilia patients.
‘Earworms’ is a term for those (annoying) catchy tunes that you just can’t get out of your head. We have put this phenomenon to a positive educational use with a unique combination of music and scientific innovation.
Bird flu is no joke! CLICK BELOW:
I found a site that tells it like it is.
I also got my Tamiflu and Nanomasks without any delays or price gouging.
CLICK BELOW:
Through my website I became aware of a drug that has stopped the progression of Multiple Sclerosis and enhanced the quality of life of many Multiple Sclerosis (MS) sufferers.
The drug is Naltrexone (also known as ReVia) and my ‘Health Success Stories’ database contains a growing body of compelling anecdotal evidence that Low Dose Naltrexone (LDN) works, and; it works well – BUT, sufferers can’t get it.
Naltrexone has not achieved mainstream acceptance as a treatment option for MS due to absence of clinical trial data. Research, drug development, and clinical trials are commercially-driven by sponsors. That’s okay, but there’s no recognized body that can officially step up to the plate to speak and act on behalf of patients. I know this because I’ve tried, without success, to find an authority that is sanctioned to do so.
The present system is unjust. It’s inequitable. It doesn’t place sufficient value on patient health success stories. It doesn’t place sufficient value on advocating for the patient. It doesn’t place sufficient value on patient-driven research or clinical trials. If it did, there would be a body sanctioned to speak and act on a promising body of testimonials.
How many stories similar to the LDN story are out there? We don’t know, because they haven’t all been collected, stored, and shared. That makes me feel uneasy and should make you feel uneasy.
We need an organisation chartered to act on this type of evidence; an organisation that values patient testimony and can make recommendations (without prejudice) on behalf of patients from all corners of the globe.
1. Thesis:
The characteristics of our universe, its matter and energy, and its physical laws are the result Darwinian evolution.
2. Summary:
To the extent that a universe possesses characteristics that are favorable to the emergence of an intelligent life that is eventually capable of governing its universe in reproduction, that universe is more likely to proliferate, passing on its characteristics to a greater number of offspring. In this manner, successive generations of universes possess characteristics that are progressively favorable to the emergence of intelligent life, specifically, life that is eventually capable of governing the activities of its own universe to the reproductive advantage that universe.
1. Thesis:
The characteristics of our universe, its matter and energy, and its physical laws are the result Darwinian evolution.
2. Summary:
To the extent that a universe possesses characteristics that are favorable to the emergence of an intelligent life that is eventually capable of governing its universe in reproduction, that universe is more likely to proliferate, passing on its characteristics to a greater number of offspring. In this manner, successive generations of universes possess characteristics that are progressively favorable to the emergence of intelligent life, specifically, life that is eventually capable of governing the activities of its own universe to the reproductive advantage that universe.
asdf
Even without waiting for the judge’s verdict in the Dover School Board case, it’s fairly easy to see that this apparent victory has come too easily.
Does it bother anyone else that Science Blog now has no hit counter? I was told that it would be back up when new software came on board. That was weeks and weeks ago.
Seems to me that a hit counter is somewhat crucial for a blogsite. And I don’t understand why Science Blog can’t arrange to have one, especially after this much time. Unless, of course, the powers that be do not WANT people to see the hit counter. I just don’t know.
“…about applying The Fundamental Theorem to 5D…”
Scientists at UC San Francisco have engineered bacteria to create living photographs that weigh in at 100 megapixels per square inch. The photos were created by projecting light on “biological film” — billions of genetically engineered E. coli growing in dishes of agar, a standard jello-like growth medium for bacteria.