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Gene Editing: The Power of Gods
On April 18th, 2015; the journal Protein & Cell published a paper, authored by researchers at Sun Yat-Sen University in Guanghzou, China, that detailed the results of experiments conducted by the researchers on gene editing – modifying the DNA of human embryos. The academic report went viral in the mainstream media, coupled with the ideas of designed people and...
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Stem Cells: The Miracle Medicine is Here
Issue 25The miracle medicine has been around since 1998 – but this year was a special one for ‘Stem Cell’ medicine. Stem cells are basically body cells that can evolve into ANY other cell, originally available only if one stored cells from the end of the umbilical cord at birth – many more feasible sources have been discovered. This year...
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Do It Yourself Energy
Issue 17Firms are creating their own power sources – shortage of power, power outages causes by hurricanes and the increasing cost of power are forcing companies to create their own private power sources or electricity generation units. As the WSJ reports – Kroger Company (a Cincinnati based grocery chain) is one such example. At one of its big food distribution...
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Geo-Engineering – Can it save the World?
Issue 4Geo-Engineering is the science, or science fiction, of changing or re-engineering the planet to avert global warming, or in general, to suit our needs – the bookish concept of our world built around us. It would involve using large scale technologies to remove CO2 and reduce solar radiation – possible methods are fertilizing the ocean with gigantic quantities of...
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The Higgs Discovery
Issue 25After the announcement of preliminary results from CERN LHC (the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Geneva – the world’s largest scientific machine) of the observation of particles that could be the famed Higgs Boson in 2012, the world was privile ged to witness the formal announc ement of the confirmat ion that the particle was indeed the Higgs...
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The Immortality Pill
Issue 25Just before Christmas this week, came the announcement of the discovery of an amazing experiment that reverses ageing. The researchers, from Harvard University and the University of New South Wales, just announced on 20th December in the journal CELL, that they had been able to reverse ageing in mice so that a 2 year old mouse became as young...
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Google’s Calico Project Reversing Ageing, Cheating Death
Issue 17Throughout the ages, wise men, scientists, kings and emperors have been seeking ways to cheat the inevitability of death and achieve immortality. All humankind’s myths have some reference to it and gods (from the greeks to the Indians) were always imagined to be immortal. Olden Alchemists, Druids, Explorers and modern Scientists have spent centuries and lives to discover the...
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Under The Microscope Stem Cells
Issue 17Stem cells – everyone’s heard a lot about their greatness and magnificence lately – so we are putting them under our microscope. Stem cells are a very simple concept at the core, and we’ve known about their existence for ages – but it’s their recently discovered potential that’s really blown everyone away. In lay terms, they are cells in...
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The Human-to-Human Brain Interface
Issue 15A revolutionary experiment, described (rather uncreatively) by most as “an example of Mind Control”, took place last week – the first human-to-human brain interface. “What?????” you ask, and I shall explain. It all began early this year, when a couple of experiments on rats, rat telepathy and human-rat interface, made big news around the world. In the first experiment,...
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Meet the Olinguito Earth’s Newest Mammal
Issue 14Scientist have discovered a new species of mammal called the Olinguito (pronounced oh-lin-GHEE-toe). It’s a small mammal that looks like a teddy bear with fluffy red-orange fur, a short bushy tail, and an adorable rounded face. The Olinguito, have been seen earlier but were considered to be members of their sister species, the olingos, however repeated studies and research...
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