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Women and Authority

A recent article by Nury Vittachi, Scientists discover that atheists might not exist, and that’s not a joke , received rather a lot of comments.  Among these were a few about the place of women in the world: however these tended to be lost ...

Blog Post - Robert H Olley - Jul 15 2014 - 5:41pm - 0 attachments

Mutations: Male Fertility Is From Mars, Female Fertility Is From Venus

... the sexes asymmetrically, including schizophrenia and Parkinson's, which are more likely to affect men, and depression and autoimmune ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 28 2014 - 10:41am - 0 attachments

6 New Genetic Risk Factors For Parkinson's Disease Found

... more than two dozen genetic risk factors involved in Parkinson's disease, including six that had not been previously ... Affecting millions of people worldwide, Parkinson's disease is a degenerative disorder that causes movement problems, ... Although nine genes have been shown to cause rare forms of Parkinson's disease, scientists continue to search for genetic risk factors to ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 27 2014 - 3:18pm - 0 attachments

Mitochondria And Antioxidants: A Tale Of Two Scientists

... is we can't diagnose that way. If I am going to get Parkinson's in 20 years, I should start taking the compound right now, but we ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jul 21 2014 - 9:17am - 0 attachments

Brain Network For Placebo Effects Identified

... in the brain that indicate a patient has or is at risk for Parkinson's disease and other neurodegenerative disorders. Parkinson's disease is the second most common neurodegenerative disease in the ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 18 2014 - 5:19pm - 0 attachments

Genome Editing Brings Possibility Of Gene Therapies Closer To Reality

... progeria syndrome (HGPS), sickle cell disease (SCD), and Parkinson's disease (PD). They evaluated the efficiencies of gene-targeting ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 13 2014 - 11:30am - 0 attachments

Genetically Modified Stem Cells Don't Increase Mutations

... induced pluripotent stem cells derived from cells with Parkinson's disease (DNA in blue). The right panel shows similarly induced ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 9 2014 - 6:30pm - 0 attachments

Cinnamon Halts Progression Of Parkinson's Disease In Study

... anatomical changes that occur in the brains of mice with Parkinson's disease.  Parkinson's disease is a slowly progressive disease that affects a small area ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 9 2014 - 9:10am - 0 attachments

Drink Your Nanojuice And Let's Shine A Laser In Your Gut

... as well as side effects of thyroid disorders, diabetes and Parkinson's disease. Lovell and a team of researchers worked with a family ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 6 2014 - 1:08pm - 0 attachments

Scientists Behaving Badly

Its been a bad week for science, particularly for the science related to food production. The notoriously flawed "Seralini Study" about tumors in rats fed GMOs is being republished in another journal after having been retracted. Another paper has co ...

Article - Steve Savage - Jun 26 2014 - 6:09pm - 0 attachments