Breakthrough device heralds future of cancer detection
1 drop of blood & 60 minutes: Early cancer detection can save millions of lives but current diagnostic methods remain costly and invasive. However, a new startup is developing a […]
Rationality, Fear, Hype and Response to Ebola
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times October 16, 2014 “We have nothing to fear but fear itself,” are the famous words of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, […]
(Ebola?) The US Is Suffering From An STD Epidemic
businessinsider.com: Infectious diseases seem to come and go, sometimes causing scary outbreaks, while other times seeming to disappear. But some infectious pathogens are always with us, lurking just below the surface of society. Sexually transmitted diseases are one major group of diseases that make for ongoing hidden epidemics: In the […]
WHO: New Ebola Cases Could Be Up To 10,000 Per Week In 2 Months
GENEVA (AP) — The death rate in the Ebola outbreak has risen to 70 percent and there could be up to 10,000 new cases a week in two months, the […]
Ebola Vaccine Would Likely Have Been Found By Now If Not For Budget Cuts: NIH Director
By Sam Stein BETHESDA, Md. — As the federal government frantically works to combat the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, and as it responds to a second diagnosis of the disease at home, […]
First Ebola transmission in U.S.: Texas healthcare worker tests positive
The Muslim Times Tagline: Ebola is here to show the Muslims, Christians, Jews and others that we are all one and in same boat. May God keep us safe. Ameen! (CNN) — […]
‘Giant leap’ to type 1 diabetes cure
By James Gallagher Health editor, BBC News website Scientists were able to transform stem cells into insulin-producing beta cells Continue reading the main story in BBC Related Stories Bionic pancreas: […]
Coffee Genes
How much coffee do you drink every day? One cup in the morning? Or do you gulp it all day? Scientists have long known that your DNA influences how much […]
How the world’s health organizations failed to stop the Ebola disaster
A Perfect Storm…. Possible Pandemic By 2015… CDC Director: ‘A Scene Out Of Dante… WHO: ‘We Could Have Responded Faster’… Mothers Afraid To Touch Their Children… Hopes Pinned On Radical […]
Loss of smell may be predictor of death in elderly
Being unable to smell bacon frying may be far more dire than simply missing out on one of life’s pleasures. In older adults, it could be a predictor of increased […]
Chimps with tools: Wild ape culture caught on camera
Lead researcher on the chimp study, Dr Catherine Hobaiter, explains how the new type of tool use spread through the group of animals Continue reading or see the video in BBC Related Stories Wild chimp language translated Apes are emotional about choices Researchers have captured the spread of a new […]
Evolution Battle Engulfs Texas Board Of Education All Over Again
Source: Huffington Post | By WILL WEISSERT AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The long-simmering battle over teaching evolution in Texas boiled over at a late-night meeting, as the Board of Education extended preliminary approval of new science books for use in classrooms across the state but held up one biology text because […]
Does the human eye prove that God exists?
The Telegraph: Darwin was baffled by it; Christians see it as evidence of the divine. Will science ever unlock the secrets of the human eye? When the body of Dr […]
Murder ‘comes naturally’ to chimpanzees
Epigraph: But his mind induced him (Kane) to kill his brother (Able), so he killed him and became one of the losers. Then Allah sent a raven which scratched in […]
Murder 'comes naturally' to chimpanzees
Epigraph: But his mind induced him (Kane) to kill his brother (Able), so he killed him and became one of the losers. Then Allah sent a raven which scratched in […]
Every Thing You Wanted to Know about Honey, Bees and Religion
Epigraph: And thy Lord has inspired the bee, saying, ‘Make thou houses in the hills and in the trees and in the trellises which they build. Then eat of every […]
Activating single gene could extend human lifespan by 30%
In an experiment on fruit flies, UCLA biologists activated just one gene, AMPK, which extended their lifespan by nearly a third, by helping them to get rid of “cellular garbage” […]
'I can create Neanderthal baby, I just need willing woman’
A scientist has said it would be possible to clone a Neanderthal baby from ancient DNA if he could find a woman willing to act as a surrogate. Source: The Telegraph By Rebecca Smith, Medical Editor 9:26PM GMT 20 Jan 2013 241 Comments The process would not be legal in many countries […]
‘I can create Neanderthal baby, I just need willing woman’
A scientist has said it would be possible to clone a Neanderthal baby from ancient DNA if he could find a woman willing to act as a surrogate. Source: The Telegraph By Rebecca Smith, Medical Editor 9:26PM GMT 20 Jan 2013 241 Comments The process would not be legal in many countries […]
Neanderthal 'Art' Found In Cave Sheds Surprising New Light On Ancient Intelligence
| By Ewen Callaway It looks like a game of tic tac toe, but engravings found deep inside a cave in Gibraltar might be a Neanderthal masterpiece. At more than 39,000 […]