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Bishop Tutu And South African DNA Unlock Ancestral Similarities

Archbishop Desmond Tutu

Some South Africans as well as Archbishop Desmond Tutu are among those being studied by genome scientists to discover more about the beautiful secrets of the first civilization.  A report in Nature magazine follows these scientists as they have uncovered in their works the massive diversities in the people.  Tutu, the 1984 Nobel Peace laureate and former head of the Anglican Church of Southern Africa, found wonderful discoveries in his ancestry. 

Tutu was used in the study to represent the Bantu who are traditionally farmers.  But, it turns out that his ancestry included at least one woman was Bushmen.  Bushmen are normally hunters and harvesters.  (more…)

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Update: University of Alabama Massacre Claims 2 Black Scientists

We have reported on the slayings at University of Alabama-Huntsville, but we learned yesterday that two of the three scientists that were slain by scientific psychopath Amy Bishop were black.  Dr. Adriel D. Johnson,Sr., 52, present research is in the area of cell biology and nutritional physiology.  According to his page for the Department of Biological Sciences at University of Alabama-Huntsville, his present work ”involves aspects of gastrointestinal physiology that seeks to identify methods of beneficially altering digestive function, specifically pancreatic function, in vertebrates.”  Read more here on Dr. Johnson’s work.  (more…)

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Skip Gates Finds Ancestors for Various ‘Faces of America’ (Video)

Skip Gates with Eva Longoria on Faces of America

Well, African American Lives has concluded for scholar Dr. Henry Louis Gates and he has picked up some Asian, Hispanic, Irish, Italian, Jewish, Syrian, West Indian, and Native American lives to investigate.  The original PBS special African American Lives sparked a lot of intrigue and fascination into the core of American history with the discoveries made in the 2 part series.  It appears that the interest has bubbled up and spilled over into the households of all americans and now we will get a bird’s eye view into the lives of  immigrants of America that may be more interesting than we think. (more…)

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Cancer Killing Virus Discovered

The medical world could realize a major breakthrough in defeating Cancer.  AOL’s Daily Finance interviewed CEO, Dr. Brad Thompson, of Calgary-based biotechnology company, Oncolytics Biotech regarding the founding his company.  The company was founded on the trail to making the remarkable cancer treatment that involves infecting patients with a harmless virus called a reovirus (Respiratory Enteric Orphan virus).  The virus, for some reason, likes to grow in and kill cancer cells rather than living in normal tissue. (more…)

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15-Year Old Black Scientist Robbed for her Studies

Jasmine Roberts

The Huffington Post website as well as many others have disturbingly run a story on “a group of microbiologists at Virginia’s Hollins University” that supposedly found “alarming levels of bacteria, possibly from feces, in fast-food soda fountains.”

Well, Jasmine Roberts, a 15-year old scientist in Florida would be surprised to hear that this is their discovery.  Back in 2006, when she was merely 12-years old, she was one of the Whiz Kids on Oprah telling millions of her viewers about her scientific discovery of the exact same thing.  She even showed how toilet water had less bacteria in it than the ice and water used for the soda machines. (more…)

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How Do You Like the First Lady’s New Do?

Our first lady is probably very diligently working on the Haitian quake disaster and her hair looks much different.  She’s too busy to worry about how her hair may look and all of the magazine hype, but she does have a new hairdo.  She sported her new bob to Joe Biden’s mother Jean’s funeral.  At first glimpse of the picture it takes you back about 40 years.  The classic look of Jackie O or simply an era of class. (more…)

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