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POPSHumans are endangered while ignorant of truth and reality. There are a number of links,which are to different fields. Some information be fact, some can be philosophical, or speculative, but it will modify any opinion. Any fact doubted should be verified but these days people are learning to do that as a matter of course. If we're going to get out of this hole, we n eed a bigger ladder.
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POPScancer cells can be made to kill themselves The researchers made their discovery using mice that were genetically engineered to have Myc-triggered cancers of either the liver, blood or bones. The mice's Myc gene was designed so it could be switched off with antibiotics. When the mice ate the drugs, the tumours stopped growing and then diminished. Some disappeared in a few days.
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POPSScientists find something good about a big bottom Researchers have known for some time that fat that collects in the abdomen -- known as visceral fat -- can raise a person's risk of diabetes and heart disease, while people with pear-shaped bodies, with fat deposits in the buttocks and hips, are less prone to these disorders
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POPSUniverse's first star born tiny, grew huge: study The processes churning inside the stars synthesized the universe's first heavy elements. In dying, these stars may have blasted this stuff back into space to become building blocks of future stars and planets composed of many more elements
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POPSMost older adults have brain disease: study Older persons can often handle one pathology in their brain, but the burden of more than one pathology may tip them over the threshold of clinical dementia Therefore, prevention of not only Alzheimer's disease but these other pathologies, particularly stroke and those things that may increase the risk of stroke, like high blood pressure, high cholesterol, cigarette smoking, obesity, "are likely to significantly decrease the prevalence of dementia
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POPSCancer cure using 'nano robots' 'Heat therapy' - Targeted treatment - Magnetic particles which have a coating that binds them to cancerous cells are injected into the patient. - The particles are heated with a "light oven" which uses electromagnetic radiation to warm the particles by between 1 degree C and 5 degrees C. - The heat produced kills the cancer cells without harming the healthy cells nearby
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POPSCrime-Fighting Tool: Hair 
The new technique analyzes stable isotopes of hydrogen (rare hydrogen-2 and common hydrogen-1) and oxygen (rare oxygen-18 and common oxygen-16) incorporated in growing hair from water and food that a person consumes and from air they breathe. The ratio of oxygen-18 to oxygen-16 in the air we breathe is the same everywhere, and Americans tend to get similar oxygen and hydrogen isotope ratios from food because the U.S. diet is becoming homogenized. The study found a strong correlation between hydrogen and oxygen isotope levels in hair and drinking water; 85 percent of the variation in isotope levels in a person’s hair was explained by variations in drinking water isotope levels in areas where they spent time. the maps cannot pinpoint a person’s exact locations in the past, but identifies general geographic areas where they stayed and drank local water. The maps were based on isotope analyses of hair and water samples collected from barbershops and tap water in 65 cities in 18
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POPSScientists create beating hearts in lab "The hope would be we could generate an organ that matched your body," said Doris Taylor of the University of Minnesota Center for Cardiovascular Repair "This is an ingenious step towards solving a massive problem," Dr. Tim Chico of Britain's University of Sheffield said in a statement. "This study is very preliminary, but it does show that stem cells can regrow in the 'skeleton' of a donor heart."
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POPSJapanese spider socks "By genetically modifying silkworms, I thought it might be possible to create good spider silk," said Masao Nakagaki, a professor at Shinshu University in central Japan who developed the fiber after 10 years of research
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