Fighting for freedom

Fighting poverty, fighting AIDS.

J effrey sachs is an economist, not an evangelist. But give the man 10 minutes behind a microphone, and a scholarly symposium starts to feel like a revival meeting. “Ladies and gentlemen,” he tells a hushed hall after describing how AIDS sufferers die in Malawi for want of $1-a-day drugs, “this plague is exploding. Its consequences will make the world quake. Rich countries could stop the devast...

The Pulpit Initiative: Fighting to Return America's First Freedom to Her Churches

Since 1954, American churches have faced a difficult decision: either say nothing about the moral issues that drive their religion or face losing their tax-exempt status. This fundamentally unsound choice falls down upon them due to an Internal Revenue Service ("IRS") regulation that prohibits religious organizations from commenting on the moral attributes of a candidate for political office.1 ...

Radioiodination of a natural toxin (ICD-85) for fighting cancer

Introduction: Many molecules can be labeled by iodine. Some of labeled substances are used for investigations of cancer treatment, biodistribution study in body, receptor binding, secrete pathway etc. Peptides are biomolecules and can be labeled by 131Iodine. ICD- 85 is a tri-peptide derived from Iranian brown snake venom and scorpion venom. This tri-peptide treats cancer by i...

Fighting for air.

Felids fighting for survival

Long before humans left Africa to conquer the rest of the world, the first felids started their bid for world domination from their native Asia. Genome research has shown that the last common ancestor of today's cat-like species lived in Asia some 10.8 million years ago, and that its descendants started to migrate to Africa and the Americas 9 million years ago (Annu. Rev. Genomics Hum. Genet. (...