Home  »  Headline News

On:

Chimpanzees may have survived an epidemic like AIDS two million years ago, which explains why they are now immune to AIDS. This means that eventually?a long time from now?humans will probably be immune too. Chimpanzees have only half as many variations of certain anti-virus immune system genes as humans, meaning that chimps with immune systems that couldn?t fight off AIDS died out completely, leaving the rest of the species immune. “It was a surgical selection, some genes got streamlined, other types of genes weren’t affected at all,” says Paul Gagneaux of the University of California.
read more

On:

The FDA has officially announced that cloned animals are safe to eat, but says that products made from genetically-modified animals could be unsafe. They are currently deciding whether to allow the sale of genetically-modified milk. The FDA is worried about how, when and where inserted genes will turn themselves on. New genes inserted into the DNA of genetically-modified animals make proteins which are not normally present in the human diet, and these could produce allergic reactions, or even be poisonous.
read more

On:

A Reagan administration program provided Iraq with military planning assistance against Iran even though we knew Iraq planned to use chemical weapons, according to senior military officers who wish to remain anonymous. This went on while we were publicly condemning Iraq for using poison gas on the Kurds. One DIA officer says that chemical weapons “were integrated into [Iraq?s] fire plan for any large operation, and it became more and more obvious.”
read more

On:

Scientists from Japan and Russia want to create a safari park featuring real mammoths and woolly rhinoceros that will be open to tourists in the next 20 years. They plan to travel to Siberia to look for the frozen carcasses of dead prehistoric animals and take DNA from them, that can be transplanted into their living relatives, such as elephants and rhinos. These animals will hopefully give birth to the same kind of creatures that roamed the Earth 20,000 years ago.
read more