Gun of God by David Cudlip www.amazon.com Thomas Courmaine, a geneticist and a card-carrying idealist, is banished to Africa; this, for his own well-being. There, he is intrigued by age-old bush medicine, and his stars are about to shine when he stumbles upon the long-sought solution to the riddle of gene therapy. Watershed stuff, to say the least, paving the way for eradicating thousands of diseases…on the cheap. Continue reading
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China's Fourth Manned Mission Brings Own Space Station Closer
China’s progress toward its own space station took a giant leap forward Friday when its Shenzhou 9 spacecraft returned to Earth with three astronauts safely aboard, Reuters reports. China’s fourth manned space mission proved an important milestone–it was the longest and most demanding yet, and included the country’s first female astronaut, 33-year-old Liu Yang. During their 13 days in orbit, Yang and two other astronauts also completed the country’s transfer of astronauts between orbiting spacecraft, an important step toward its goal of manning its own space station by 2020. Continue reading