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Autism Hates Black Seed Oil

There isn’t a lot of scientific research available on this subject, after all, you can’t patent Nature, so when big pharma does their research on plants it’s not published generally. When Nature is investigated by pharma, it’s for the purpose of adding chemicals to it for patent. With no compulsion to ever publish any scientific […]

Suicide prevention drug steps closer with enzyme discovery

In the journal Translational Psychiatry, researchers reveal how a certain variant of the enzyme ACMSD leads to abnormal levels of two acids in the brain, which may encourage suicidal behavior. The research team – including senior author Dr. Lena Brundin of the Center for Neurodegenerative Science at Van Andel Research Institute in Grand Rapids, MI […]

Scary: Simple blood test could predict if you will die in the next five years

If you could find out pretty much the exact date – give or take a few months – when you will take your last breath among the living, would you want to know? If you said yes, then you may just get your chance, and soon. Scientists believe they may have come up with a […]

Personalized medicine: The way forward?

Being different, our bodies react differently to treatment. Variations in chemical and genetic composition mean that one person’s response to a therapy will not necessarily be the same as the next. As developments in the fields of genetics and technology advance, the conventional, one-size-fits-all approach to medicine starts to look outdated. Instead, we are seeing […]