People can carry versions of genes that promote disease, also variations that promote good health. An international team of 70 scientists from Mexico, Sweden, the U.K., and the U.S. has found a crucial example of the latter. The group has identified a genetic variant that guards against obesity, a condition affecting almost one in every...
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WHAT TOMORROW’S REFINERY WILL LOOK LIKE
Austrian solar company Fronius is building a prototype of tomorrow’s refinery – not a maze of pipes carrying petroleum fluids and gases from tank to tank, but a plant that makes “green” hydrogen on-site using only solar energy and water. Hydrogen is establishing itself as a niche fuel in the future’s energy mix, especially in...
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A FIRST: INJECTION CURES GENETIC DEFECT
For the first time, bioscientists have cured a genetic defect with an injection. The defective gene spawns a rare illness called transthyretin amyloidosis, in which the liver makes a malformed protein that accumulates in the heart, eventually causing the heart to stop. In its first test, the one-time injection halted almost all production of the...
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LOOKING AN ANCIENT HUMAN COUSIN IN THE FACE
A fossilized skull found and hidden away in China during the late 1930s has ignited debate among archeologists. The skull has a brain case as big as modern humans, but also huge eye sockets, heavy brow ridges, and an enormous molar. When the skull was recently delivered to scientists, those who first examined it named...
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“CLUSTERS” FUEL FEAR OF MORE VIRULENT VARIANTS
According to CNN, reported on 8 July, the U.S. is at great risk because there are “clusters” of unvaccinated people, mostly in Southern and Midwestern states, and such clusters are potential breeding grounds for more COVID infections, especially the more virulent Delta variant and even more deadly strains yet to be seen. These clusters, comprised...
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DELTA COVID-19 STRAIN IS NOW DOMINANT IN U.S.
The Delta variant, also known as B.1.617.2 has officially been named the most dominant variant in the U.S. after it was reported Thursday that it made up 51.7 percent of cases in the two weeks prior to 3 July, a report said. The Wall Street Journal reported that Delta supplanted the Alpha variant that now accounts...
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COVID WAR 2.0: MASK MANDATES TO BE REINSTATED
As we forecasted last month, the U.S. is headed for COVID WAR 2.0 and politicians and so called “health officials” are going to use variants to sell fear and implement a new round of lockdowns just in time for the fall. CNBC reported that scientists have been monitoring the Delta variant that is spreading rapidly in...
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SPAIN/PORTUGAL: TOURISM AND BUSINESS TO SUFFER THE DELTA BLUES
Spain canceled almost all of its COVID restrictions in May, but now is being pressured to reinstate them in response to a resurgence of cases, particularly involving the Delta variant that hit the Catalonia region and has targeted younger people. Spain’s rate of infection now exceeds that of Portugal and Russia, and is the highest...
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COVID JABS: STRIKE THREE
The Delta variant of the COVID-19 virus, first identified in India and thought to be the most contagious thus far, is said to be spreading rapidly around the world and is now the most prevalent strain in the U.S. It is also thought to be better able to evade the vaccines that were developed to...
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DELTA VARIANT: INDONESIA HYSTERIA
Indonesia, the world’s fourth most populous nation, with over 10 percent of its people living in deep poverty and the average life expectancy at 71.5 years of age… is the big news spreading across the globe. From Aljazeera to the Wall Street Journal, the mainstream media is spreading the fear that Indonesia is experiencing a...