Archive for the 'Biotechnology' Category
Replacing Boarding Passes at Airports with Facial Recognition and a “Digital Travel Credential” Stored on Passengers’ Smartphones
April 18th, 2025Hint: This isn’t just for use at airports. Via: Fox: Paper boarding passes and traditional airport check-in could soon become relics of the past, according to a new initiative backed by the United Nations’ aviation agency. The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) is supporting a plan to transform the global air travel experience through the […]
CDC: Autism Rate for Children Now 1 in 31 (3.22%)
April 17th, 2025Via: The Defender: U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. today criticized mainstream media for pushing the narrative that rising autism rates are just a result of better diagnosis. “One of the things that I think we need to move away from today is this ideology that autism diagnosis, that the […]
‘Parkinson’s Is a Man-Made Disease’
April 15th, 2025Via: Politico: In the summer of 1982, seven heroin users were admitted to a California hospital paralyzed and mute. They were in their 20s, otherwise healthy — until a synthetic drug they had manufactured in makeshift labs left them frozen inside their own bodies. Doctors quickly discovered the cause: MPTP, a neurotoxic contaminant that had […]
Trump Exempts Phones, Computers, Chips from New Tariffs
April 12th, 2025What’s next? Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (APIs)? It’s the most well-known secret on Capitol Hill: China owns the American generic drug supply chain. Basic thyroid or blood pressure medications might finally be put into pill form in an Indian lab and sold under an Indian brand like Cipla. But the organic compounds, or key starting materials, […]
DoD / DIA Reports Suggest Biden Pentagon Suppressed COVID-19 Origins Investigation
April 11th, 2025Yes, China, China, China, but Fauci and Daszak made it happen. Via: ZeroHedge: Released years after the fact, the documents suggest that top military and intelligence officials either ignored or downplayed signs that the coronavirus may have originated from a laboratory in Wuhan, China – raising new questions about transparency and accountability, according to Just […]
Did Scientists Create a Dire Wolf by Gene Editing a Common Gray Wolf?
April 8th, 2025[???] Via: Time: The dire wolf once roamed an American range that extended as far south as Venezuela and as far north as Canada, but not a single one has been seen in over 10,000 years, when the species went extinct. Plenty of dire wolf remains have been discovered across the Americas, however, and that […]
The Computer that Runs on Human Neurons
April 6th, 2025I’ve posted about this before. I think it’s worth monitoring closely because my guess is that this (or something like it) is how a disorderly advance in AI could happen. Via: El País: Lab-grown brain cells are the basis for the functioning of the CL1, which has been announced as the first commercially-sold biological computer. […]
A Vapor Sprayed Over Human Populations? Are We Talking About the Past?
April 6th, 2025Via: The 5th Kind:
New Antibiotic that Kills Drug-Resistant Bacteria Discovered in Technician’s Garden
April 4th, 2025Via: Nature: Researchers have discovered a new antibiotic molecule that targets a broad range of disease-causing bacteria — even strains resistant to commercial drugs — and is not toxic to human cells. The molecule was found in soil samples collected from a laboratory technician’s garden. The discovery shows that “there is terrifically interesting stuff hiding […]
SARS-CoV-2 Spike Protein Present in Cerebral Arteries Up to 17 Months Following mRNA Vaccination
April 3rd, 2025Via: Journal of Clinical Neuroscience: Spike protein expression was detected in 43.8 % of vaccinated patients, predominantly localized to the intima of cerebral arteries, even up to 17 months post-vaccination. … None of the cases showed nucleocapsid protein positivity, supporting the absence of active viral infection. Related: Elevated Levels of Spike Protein in Circulation, “Up […]
