Engineering Evil

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• Pest resistance to biotech crops surging

  By Ralph Turchiano on October 10, 2017

  Public Release: 10-Oct-2017   A new global assessment helps scientists explain why cases of pest resistance to genetically engineered crops increased by more than fivefold in the past decade, yet some pests remain suppressed University of Arizona   IMAGE: The… Read More ›

• Perinatal BPA exposure induces chronic inflammation by modulating gut bacteria

  By Ralph Turchiano on October 10, 2017

  Public Release: 10-Oct-2017   American Society for Microbiology Washington, DC – October 10, 2017 – Emerging evidence from a research study in rabbits suggests that environmental toxicants may influence inflammation-promoted chronic disease susceptibility during early life. BPA exposure just before… Read More ›

• Insight into our 50-plus lifespan still evolving, genetic study shows

  By Ralph Turchiano on October 10, 2017

  Public Release: 9-Oct-2017   University of Edinburgh It is an evolutionary riddle that has long puzzled scientists … now the quest to find out why we live beyond 50 is being helped by a new genetic study. Researchers seeking to… Read More ›

• Blindness reversed through simple gene therapy (Animal Model)

  By Ralph Turchiano on October 9, 2017

  

  Blindness reversed through simple gene therapy (Animal Model) Blindness reversed through simple gene therapy (Animal Model) from Clinical News – VHFILM on Vimeo. Researchers have shown how it might be possible to reverse blindness using gene therapy to reprogram cells… Read More ›

• Perpetrators of genocide say they’re ‘good people’

  By Ralph Turchiano on October 8, 2017

  Public Release: 5-Oct-2017   Study examined testimony of defendants in Rwandan violence Ohio State University COLUMBUS, Ohio – The men who were tried for their role in the 1994 Rwandan genocide that killed up to 1 million people want you… Read More ›

• Herbicides now completely failing to control some weeds

  By Ralph Turchiano on October 8, 2017

  Public Release: 4-Oct-2017 Are we at a tipping point with weed control? University of Illinois College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences   IMAGE: Researcher Adam Davis from the University of Illinois says we’re close to losing chemical control of… Read More ›

• Spanish ‘civil war’ warning as Catalonia independence declaration fears grow

  By Ralph Turchiano on October 5, 2017

  Catalonia ‘civil war’ warning as independence declaration fears grow 5 OCTOBER 2017 • 7:05PM The EU’s budget commissioner has warned of the risk of “civil war” in Catalonia, as fears grew over a looming independence declaration and major banks prepared… Read More ›

• Oral Vitamin D protects against severe asthma attacks

  By Ralph Turchiano on October 4, 2017

  

  Oral Vitamin D protects against severe asthma attacks Vitamin D supplements protect against severe asthma attacks. We look at the meta-analysis conducted by the Lancet which showed the possible benefits of oral vitamin D supplementation reducing the likelihood of a… Read More ›

• Discrimination on the grounds of political ideas prevails over any other

  By Ralph Turchiano on October 4, 2017

  Public Release: 4-Oct-2017 A recent international study, in which lecturers from the UPV/EHU-University of the Basque Country participated, confirms greater trust among people sharing an ideology vis-à-vis those who hold different ideas University of the Basque Country Sean Westwood (Dartmouth… Read More ›

• Irish scientists can now produce electricity from tears

  By Ralph Turchiano on October 3, 2017

  Public Release: 2-Oct-2017 Pressure generates electricity in crystals of enzyme found in tears, milk and egg whites University of Limerick A team of Irish scientists has discovered that applying pressure to a protein found in egg whites and tears can… Read More ›

• GM soybean oil causes less obesity and insulin resistance but is harmful to liver function

  By Ralph Turchiano on October 3, 2017

  Public Release: 2-Oct-2017   UC Riverside mouse study compares Plenish to conventional soybean, coconut, and olive oils University of California – Riverside   IMAGE: This photo shows Poonamjot Deol (seated) and Frances Sladek. Credit: I. Pittalwala, UC Riverside. RIVERSIDE, Calif…. Read More ›

• Feeling sated can become a cue to eat more

  By Ralph Turchiano on October 3, 2017

  Public Release: 2-Oct-2017   Association for Psychological Science When hunger pangs strike, we usually interpret them as a cue to reach for a snack; when we start to feel full, we take it as a sign that we should stop… Read More ›

• Trojan Horse Herbicide devastating for future Generations?

  By Ralph Turchiano on October 2, 2017

  

  Trojan Horse Herbicide devastating for future Generations? Trojan Horse Herbicide devastating for future Generations? from Clinical News – VHFILM on Vimeo. The following research just released discusses how one particular herbicide does not damage the generation of initial exposure but… Read More ›

• Gamers have an advantage in learning

  By Ralph Turchiano on September 29, 2017

  Public Release: 29-Sep-2017   Ruhr-University Bochum Neuropsychologists of the Ruhr-Universität Bochum let video gamers compete against non-gamers in a learning competition. During the test, the video gamers performed significantly better and showed an increased brain activity in the brain areas… Read More ›

• Database of earthquakes triggered by human activity is growing — with some surprises

  By Ralph Turchiano on September 29, 2017

  Public Release: 28-Sep-2017   Seismological Society of America The Human-Induced Earthquake Database (HiQuake), the world’s most complete database of earthquake sequences proposed to have been triggered by human activity, now includes approximately 730 entries, according to a report published October… Read More ›

• Consciousness restored after 15 years with nerve stimulation

  By Ralph Turchiano on September 27, 2017

  

  Consciousness restored after 15 years with nerve stimulation Consciousness restored after 15 years with nerve stimulation from Clinical News – VHFILM on Vimeo. In this review we look at a study in which a man that was lying in a… Read More ›

• Large increase in rate of death from chronic respiratory diseases

  By Ralph Turchiano on September 27, 2017

  Public Release: 26-Sep-2017   The JAMA Network Journals   Between 1980 and 2014, the rate of death from chronic respiratory diseases, such as COPD, increased by nearly 30 percent overall in the U.S., although this trend varied by county, sex,… Read More ›

• Study: There is almost no research on what distinguishes potential terrorists

  By Ralph Turchiano on September 26, 2017

  Public Release: 25-Sep-2017   North Carolina State University A recent analysis of the existing research on factors associated with an individual’s risk for engaging in terrorist activity highlights how little we know about these factors and the need for additional… Read More ›

• Whooping Cough Vaccine, Imminent Failure?

  By Ralph Turchiano on September 25, 2017

  

  Whooping Cough Vaccine, Imminent Failure? <p><a href=”https://vimeo.com/235442251″>Whooping Cough Vaccine, Imminent Failure?</a> from <a href=”https://vimeo.com/vhfilm”>Clinical News – VHFILM</a> on <a href=”https://vimeo.com”>Vimeo</a&gt;.</p> We review the recent research “ Resurgence of Whooping Cough May Owe to Vaccine’s Inability to Prevent Infections “ in… Read More ›

• Social Engineering with Twitter Bots

  By Ralph Turchiano on September 25, 2017

  Public Release: 22-Sep-2017 Twitter bots for good: USC ISI study reveals how information spreads on social media Study co-authored by USC ISI highlights how positive behaviors are reinforced on social networks University of Southern California After an election year marked… Read More ›

• Herbicides mysteriously lead to multiple diseases in great grand offspring

  By Ralph Turchiano on September 22, 2017

  Public Release: 20-Sep-2017 WSU researchers see popular herbicide affecting health across generations Atrazine linked to diseases in grand- and great-grand offspring Washington State University PULLMAN, Wash.–First, the good news. Washington State University researchers have found that a rat exposed to… Read More ›

• Hold the phone: An ambulance might lower your chances of surviving some injuries

  By Ralph Turchiano on September 22, 2017

  Public Release: 20-Sep-2017 Gunshot and stabbing victims more likely to die if transported to the trauma center by ambulance Johns Hopkins Medicine   A new study finds that victims of gunshots and stabbings are significantly less likely to die if… Read More ›

• BU: Resurgence of whooping cough may owe to vaccine’s inability to prevent infections

  By Ralph Turchiano on September 21, 2017

  “This disease is back because we didn’t really understand how our immune defenses against whooping cough worked, and did not understand how the vaccines needed to work to prevent it,” said Christopher J. Gill, associate professor of global health at… Read More ›

• Sleep Deprivation Therapy Rapidly Improves Depression

  By Ralph Turchiano on September 20, 2017

  

  Sleep Deprivation Therapy Rapidly Improves Depression Sleep Deprivation Therapy Rapidly Improves Depression from Clinical News – VHFILM on Vimeo. We review what may be viewed by some as a counter-intuitive meta analysis in regard to the rapid effects and significant… Read More ›

• Security cameras are vulnerable to attacks using infrared light — Ben Gurion U. study

  By Ralph Turchiano on September 19, 2017

  

  American Associates, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev   BEER-SHEVA, Israel…Sept. 19, 2017 – Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) researchers have demonstrated that security cameras infected with malware can receive covert signals and leak sensitive information from the very same… Read More ›

• Cells programmed like computers to fight disease

  By Ralph Turchiano on September 19, 2017

  Public Release: 18-Sep-2017   Cells can be programmed like a computer to fight cancer, influenza, and other serious conditions – thanks to a breakthrough in synthetic biology by the University of Warwick University of Warwick   IMAGE: This is a… Read More ›

• Asthma medication may have psychiatric side effects

  By Ralph Turchiano on September 19, 2017

  Public Release: 18-Sep-2017   Wiley In a Pharmacology Research & Perspectives study, the asthma medication montelukast (trade name Singulair) was linked with neuropsychiatric reactions such as depression and aggression, with nightmares being especially frequent in children. For the study, investigators… Read More ›

• Magnetic fields to alleviate anxiety

  By Ralph Turchiano on September 18, 2017

  

  Magnetic fields to alleviate anxiety Magnetic fields to alleviate anxiety from Clinical News – VHFILM on Vimeo. We review the study ” Medial prefrontal cortex stimulation accelerates therapy response of exposure therapy in acrophobia. Brain Stimulation ” in which a… Read More ›

• Humans no longer have ancient defence mechanism against viruses

  By Ralph Turchiano on September 16, 2017

  Public Release: 15-Sep-2017 KU Leuven Insects and plants have an important ancient defence mechanism that helps them to fight viruses. This is encoded in their DNA. Scientists have long assumed that vertebrates – including humans – also had this same… Read More ›

• Why we did not evolve to live forever: Unveiling the mystery of why we age

  By Ralph Turchiano on September 16, 2017

  Public Release: 15-Sep-2017   Johannes Gutenberg Universitaet Mainz Researchers at the Institute of Molecular Biology (IMB) in Mainz, Germany, have made a breakthrough in understanding the origin of the ageing process. They have identified that genes belonging to a process… Read More ›

• Antidepressants associated with significantly elevated risk of death, researchers find – 33% higher chance of death than non-users

  By Ralph Turchiano on September 16, 2017

  Public Release: 14-Sep-2017   McMaster University HAMILTON, ON, CANADA, Sept. 14, 2014 – Antidepressant medications, most commonly prescribed to reduce depression and anxiety, increase the risk of death, according to new findings by a McMaster-led team of researchers. It’s widely… Read More ›

• Low awareness of breast cancer overdiagnosis and overtreatment among US women

  By Ralph Turchiano on September 16, 2017

  Public Release: 14-Sep-2017   Wolters Kluwer Health Did you know that routine mammograms can lead to overdiagnosis and overtreatment of breast cancer? Most American women aren’t aware of these risks of breast cancer screening, reports a study in the October… Read More ›

• H1N1 swine flu may play a role in triggering type 1 diabetes

  By Ralph Turchiano on September 15, 2017

  Public Release: 13-Sep-2017 Diabetologia Infection with H1N1 influenza (also called swine flu) may put individuals, particularly children, at greater risk of subsequent type 1 diabetes (T1D), suggests new research being presented at this year’s European Association for the Study of… Read More ›

• ‘The dark side’ of quantum computers

  By Ralph Turchiano on September 15, 2017

  Public Release: 13-Sep-2017   Eindhoven University of Technology The era of fully fledged quantum computers threatens to destroy internet security as we know it. Researchers are in a race against time to prepare new cryptographic techniques before the arrival of… Read More ›

• Illusion to help you read smaller fonts

  By Ralph Turchiano on September 13, 2017

  

  Illusion to help you read smaller fonts Illusion to help you read smaller fonts from Clinical News – VHFILM on Vimeo. We review the research ” Illusory Increases in Font Size Improve Letter Recognition ” in which by rotating a… Read More ›

• Kids praised for being smart are more likely to cheat, new studies find

  By Ralph Turchiano on September 12, 2017

  Public Release: 12-Sep-2017   University of Toronto TORONTO, ON – Kids who are praised for being smart, or who are told they have a reputation for being smart, are more likely to be dishonest and cheat, a pair of studies… Read More ›

• Connecting up the quantum internet

  By Ralph Turchiano on September 12, 2017

  Public Release: 11-Sep-2017   First practical building blocks for a global quantum internet Centre for Quantum Computation & Communication Technology   IMAGE: Dr Rose Ahlefeldt and A. Prof Matthew Sellars operating a high resolution dye laser (used to study rare… Read More ›

• AI uses less than two minutes of videogame footage to recreate game engine

  By Ralph Turchiano on September 12, 2017

  Public Release: 11-Sep-2017   Georgia Institute of Technology Game studios and enthusiasts may soon have a new tool at their disposal to speed up game development and experiment with different styles of play. Georgia Institute of Technology researchers have developed… Read More ›

• Scientists list 50 terms you may be confusing

  By Ralph Turchiano on September 12, 2017

  Public Release: 11-Sep-2017   Envy vs. jealousy, disease vs. illness and 48 more terms that seem to be the same but aren’t Frontiers Should you punish a disobedient child, or try negative reinforcement? Is your shy new colleague antisocial or… Read More ›

• Drug, which once sold for $40 for a vial raise to $23,000 overnight

  By Ralph Turchiano on September 12, 2017

  Public Release: 11-Sep-2017 Expensive drug driving up Medicare expenditures without evidence of greater efficacy Oregon State University PORTLAND, Ore. – Medicare spent more than $1 billion over a five-year period on a high-priced drug that has not been proven more… Read More ›

• Vitamin C studied as a Treatment for Cancer esp. Leukemia (2x)

  By Ralph Turchiano on September 11, 2017

  

  Vitamin C studied as a Treatment for Cancer esp. Leukemia (2x) Vitamin C studied as a Treatment for Cancer esp. Leukemia (2x) from Clinical News – VHFILM on Vimeo. We review actually two separate studies on Vitamin C and cancer… Read More ›

• Nurses’ regular use of disinfectants is associated with developing COPD

  By Ralph Turchiano on September 11, 2017

  Public Release: 10-Sep-2017   European Lung Foundation Milan, Italy: Regular use of disinfectants is linked to a higher risk of developing chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), according to new research looking at incidence of the disease in over 55,000 nurses… Read More ›

• Eleven new studies suggest ‘power poses’ don’t work

  By Ralph Turchiano on September 11, 2017

  Public Release: 10-Sep-2017   Michigan State University   Caption Can holding a power pose, such as standing with your legs wide and hands on hips, improve your life? A raft of new research spearheaded by a Michigan State University scholar… Read More ›

• Are we being watched? Tens of other worlds could spot the Earth

  By Ralph Turchiano on September 8, 2017

  Public Release: 8-Sep-2017   Royal Astronomical Society   Caption Image showing where transits of our solar system planets can be observed. Each line represents where one of the planets could be seen to transit, with the blue line representing Earth;… Read More ›

• Polio-like disease in children

  By Ralph Turchiano on September 8, 2017

  Public Release: 8-Sep-2017   Deutsches Aerzteblatt International COLOGNE. In Germany in the summer and autumn of 2016, several cases of illness in children were observed that were accompanied by acute flaccid paralysis. For the entire year 2016, 16 of such… Read More ›

• New research disputes claims that climate change helped spark the Syrian civil war

  By Ralph Turchiano on September 8, 2017

  Public Release: 7-Sep-2017 University of Sussex A new study, published today in the journal Political Geography, shows that there is no sound evidence that global climate change was a factor in causing the Syrian civil war. Claims that a major… Read More ›

• Using antidepressants during pregnancy may affect your child’s mental health

  By Ralph Turchiano on September 8, 2017

  Public Release: 7-Sep-2017   Aarhus University IMAGE: The study shows that the increase not only applies for autism but also for other psychiatric diagnoses like depression, anxiety and ADHD. Credit: Lise Balsby The use of antidepressants has been on the… Read More ›

• Stress Induced Insomnia alleviated by Octacosanol

  By Ralph Turchiano on September 6, 2017

  

  Stress Induced Insomnia alleviated by Octacosanol from Clinical News – VHFILM on Vimeo. Stress Induced Insomnia alleviated by Octacosanol We review the public citation title: ” Cannot sleep due to stress? Here is the cure ” in which researchers discover… Read More ›

• Mislabeled moisturizers create problems for skin disorder sufferers

  By Ralph Turchiano on September 6, 2017

  Public Release: 6-Sep-2017   Eczema, psoriasis patients have trouble navigating products with misleading ingredients Northwestern University CHICAGO — A new Northwestern Medicine study found that moisturizers marked “fragrance free” or “hypoallergenic” were not, and products labeled as “dermatologist-recommended” often came… Read More ›

• Discovery of boron on Mars adds to evidence for habitability

  By Ralph Turchiano on September 5, 2017

  Public Release: 5-Sep-2017   Boron compounds play role in stabilizing sugars needed to make RNA, a key to life DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory IMAGE: A selfie of the NASA Curiosity rover at the Murray Buttes in Gale Crater, Mars, a… Read More ›

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