http://bacteriality.com Tue, 26 Aug 2008 19:19:10 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The year was 2005. Under the guidance of Mary H. Schweitzer, researchers from North Carolina State University reported a groundbreaking finding. ((Schweitzer, M. H., Wittmeyer, J. L., Horner, J. R., & Toporski, J. K. (2005). Soft-Tissue Vessels and Cellular Preservation in Tyrannosaurus rex. Science, 307(5717), 1952.)) The team had, ... http://bacteriality.com/2008/08/26/dino/ Though the human genome was fully sequenced in 2001, the most promising work in genomics has just begun and not even in the study of human DNA. Human cells are outnumbered by bacterial cells by a factor of ten to one, and, as the rest of this site alludes to ... http://bacteriality.com/2008/08/17/jcvi/ The actor and comedian Bernie Mac died today, and it was because of sarcoidosis. Preliminary news reports say otherwise. A statement by Mac's publicist, who very likely got it on authority from his doctors, said that it was the "complications due to pneumonia" which ended his life. Mac had suffered ... http://bacteriality.com/2008/08/09/berniemac/ How are the pathogens that cause Th1 disease passed from parent to child? For one thing, it's quite probable that the pathogens are able to survive in the sperm and egg. It's equally true that the pathogens are simply passed among people in close contact, and infants and ... http://bacteriality.com/2008/07/31/hpv/ Note: Much of the information included in this piece was derived from two articles published in the May 28th edition of Nature News, a resource published by the medical journal Nature Even those of us who live under rocks have heard of the Human Genome Project, a massive international scientific ... http://bacteriality.com/2008/07/27/microbiome/ By this point, people familiar with the Marshall pathogenesis realize that the Vitamin D Receptor plays an extremely important role in activating immune function and keeping the chronic, intraphagocytic bacteria that cause inflammatory disease under control. But when the vitamin D feedback pathways fleshed out by Marshall in ... http://bacteriality.com/2008/07/19/pxr-2/ In 1997, this engineer from the Detroit area was diagnosed with sarciodosis and began Autoimmunity Research Foundation's Marshall Protocol in order to kill the chronic bacteria causing the disease. But suddenly things took a turn for the worse. A rapidly growing tumor was detected in his bladder and ... http://bacteriality.com/2008/07/18/interview24/ Chickens beware. Your meat, and that of other animals, may soon be in higher demand. The problem is that tofu, a soy product often used to replace meat, has once again been tied to negative health consequences - in this case, memory loss and dementia. Researchers at ... http://bacteriality.com/2008/07/15/tofu/ In 2005, for his TED talk, Dr. Aubrey de Grey was asked by an audience member who was seemingly puzzled by his long brown beard, "Since you talk about aging and try to defeat it, why do you make yourself appear like an old man?" De Grey responded, "Because I am ... http://bacteriality.com/2008/07/09/aging08/ This is a video of the presentation made by Prof Trevor Marshall at the Aging conference at the University of California, Los Angeles, on June 29, 2008. For those who have access to a high-speed internet connection and fast computer, better version of this video, in High Definition is . ... http://bacteriality.com/2008/07/08/tmaging08/