The Minority Report

Very exciting that they are making this kind of progress with muscular dystrophy.
An international team of researchers has successfully treated dogs with the canine form of Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), a rapidly progressing and ultimately fatal muscle disease that afflicts one out of every 3,600 boys. The researchers used a novel technique called exon skipping [...]

Always first with breaking news…from 1918…I found this first person account of the execution of Tsar Nicholas and his family fascinating. I’m sure you knew already but I didn’t know that there were accounts floating around of the actual event.

the Tsar and his family were initially kept as prisoners near St. Petersburg and then [...]

I blogged about this last month when I read the article that Daniel MacArthur originally wrote.
It would appear that the right-wing religious, pro-life nutbag wackos got to him a lot quicker than I thought they would He held out for what…two weeks?
I’ll tell you what happened, he got hundreds of phone calls and emails [...]

I’ve been predicting this for 10 years at the very least and any science fiction fan worth their salt knew this was coming. I personally, aside from the ethical considerations and the pro-life nutbags, think it’s exciting. Do I want a blond haired, blue eyed, Arian monster with no health problems? Fuck [...]

Now I don’t know DNA sequencing from a movie fight sequence but the video that I watched this morning is amazing. Every advance made in gene sequencing puts us closer and closer to personalized medicine. I know I will never see the day when I walk into my doctors office, give blood and [...]

Lots of people fear for humanity. Not me, I think we are experts at adaptation and survival and we have this nasty streak of goodness and responsibility.

Take our good friend the Ibex here, look at what scientists are doing to ensure the species that went extinct 9 years ago makes a full recovery. [...]