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The patient Timothy Ray Brown is called the Berlin Patient who underwent a stem cell transplant in 2007 to cure his HIV. THe doctors believe that the HIV-positive man has now been cured of the disease. His doctors recently published…
SpaceX successfully launched the Falcon 9 rocket carrying the Dragon spacecraft on Wednesday at 10:43 a.m. EST from NASA’s Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. SpaceX, which was webcasting the launch, cut off coverage as the rocket’s second-stage engine completed its…
After seven months in space, U.S. Air Force’s X-37B robot space plane returns to Earth, landing at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. The space plane, also known as Orbital Test Vehicle 1, glided back to Earth over the Pacific…
Felisa Wolfe-Simon, the lead scientist of the work in the discovery of the bacterium GFAJ-1 from Mono Lake, California, now gets her wiki page. According to wiki, “Felisa Wolfe-Simon is a geomicrobiologist at the US Geological Survey and a fellow…
Science Magazine, in which NASA astrobiology research fellow Dr. Felisa Wolfe-Simon and colleagues’ article “A Bacterium That Can Grow by Using Arsenic Instead of Phosphorous” will appear, has released this YouTube video. But now researchers have coaxed a microbe to…
The NASA announcement is going live right now on NASA’s website. While no discovery of extraterrestrial life has been mentioned, NASA has indeed uncovered an entirely new life form on our planet that “doesn’t share the biological building blocks of…
NASA will hold a press conference at 2 p.m. EST on Thursday, Dec. 2, to discuss an astrobiology finding that will impact the search for evidence of extraterrestrial life. Astrobiology is the study of the origin, evolution, distribution and future…
NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship (NESSF) Program NASA announces a call for graduate fellowship proposals to the NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship (NESSF) program for the 2011-2012 academic year. This call for fellowship proposals solicits applications from accredited…
This is an interesting news for those wanting to get rid of their alcohol addiction. A tipsy alcohol gene has been discovered that may offer some protection against alcoholism. Experts say they have found a “tipsy” gene called CYP2E1 that…
Three chemists won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry 2010. An American and two Japanese scientists won the 2010 Nobel Prize in chemistry on Wednesday for developing chemical methods widely used to make potential cancer drugs and other medicines, as well…