Two of You?!

You may remember the sensation created when it was announced that a scientific laboratory had actually used cloning techniques to produce Dolly the sheep in 1996. 

For research on brain diseases like Alzheimer’s, more predictive treatment would result if research were conducted on primates because of the similarity of their brains to ours. Besides, cloned primates (which would each have an identical DNA makeup) would remove the uncontrolled variable of genetic differences and reduce the number of animals needed for any given study.  [Read more…]

Abortion Stopper?

One factor reportedly contributing to choosing abortion is that the prospective mother can’t see the embryo or fetus growing within. Further, the abortion industry has convinced many that it is just a “blob of tissue” and not a real person. That may be about to change. [Read more…]

Glimpses of Redemption in God’s Creation Design

One result of the advent of sin into the world was a curse upon the creation, including humans (Genesis 3; Romans 5:12). By His grace and wisdom, God placed within created organisms designs for humans to discover which can reduce the effects of the curse. Such is the case with the Morpho butterfly, native to the rain forests of Central America.

Scientific studies of this butterfly’s eyes have inspired a new camera. When incorporated into special goggles worn by a surgeon, s/he is able to detect imbedded and dyed cancer cells (by infrared fluorescence) and tumors directly through the overlying skin. This minimizes the number of incisions needed and assures that cancer cells are not left behind in the body.  [Read more…]

Three dimensional (3D) printing, or additive manufacturing, is a process of making solid, three-dimensional objects from a digital file. Using metals, plastics, acrylic, sandstone, etc., an object is created by laying down successive micrometer layers of materials until the object is complete. 

Hailed by some as the advent of the third industrial revolution, 3D printers may eventually be standard household equipment to manufacture your own shoes, dresses, glasses frames, doorknobs, functional clocks—the list is seemingly endless.  [Read more…]

There is a current craze for people to discover more about their heritage by DNA testing. Typically, these tests reveal ancestry by detecting mutations in nuclear DNA. 

One American family had this test done for themselves. Not surprisingly to them, results confirmed that the parents were of European descent; their adoptive daughter and son from China were East Asian. [Read more…]