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Secret
to Long Life?
10 Critical Genes
Discovery
of up to 10 critical genes, by researchers at Harvard Medical
School, may portend increases in life spans and the quality
of life for the aging via development of drugs to inhibit development
of cancer, osteoporosis, heart disease, and dementia.
The
key? A section of chromosome four that was found, in a study
of 137 100-year-olds and their brothers and sisters aged 91
to 99, to contain up to 10 disease-fighting genes.
Do
these individuals represent the key factors in a small number
of genes, for both increased life expectancy and good health?
Only time will tell, as this startling scientific exposition
is explored and tested in the coming years.
Source:
- The
Sunday Times [link inactive]
Africans
Seek Recognition of Slavery as Crime Against Humanity
Coalition
of 40 non-governmental African organizations, on Thursday, August
23, in Dakar, called for slavery to be recognized as a crime
against humanity, and demanded compensation.
Amnesty
International said compensation was secondary, and instead argued
that the history of colonialism and oppression be historically
recognized in history books throughout the world.
Since
it's difficult to isolate those responsible for slavery, since
there are no slaves or slave owners left, financial compensation
is also difficult even though the rights to justice, of those
victimized and their descendants, must be addressed.
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Drug-Testing
Shortcuts Costing Lives
Bayer's
Baycol and, from an unrelated source, a so-called "cancer
vaccine", tested on 200 terminally ill patients, are revealing
dangerous flaws in the testing modality used in Germany.
Bayer,
a German-based pharmaceutical giant, earlier this month had
to suspend the distribution of the Baycol anti-cholesterol drug.
It may have been responsible for the deaths of 52 people and
1,100 may have been crippled by its use.
In
an unrelated and disquieting consequence of the lax German drug-testing
laws, a scientist from a prestigious university claimed to have
discovered a "cancer vaccine". After it was tested
on 200 terminally ill patients at Göttingen University,
it was discovered to be a sham, and many of the patients are
now dead.
Ironically,
the scientist's only evidence for the "cancer vaccine"
was a photo of vanishing cancer cells. No other proof was offered
and no one had duplicated his findings, as would be normally
practiced, yet the scientist received a prestigious medical
prize for the "discovery". After an agreement was
signed with a German company to manufacture the "vaccine",
the tests began.
Source:
- The
Independent News [link inactive]
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