First lifeform created in laboratory

The  synthetic lifeform is a modified form of  the mycoplasma mycoides genome,was created by J. craig venter and other researchers  at the J.Craig venter institue in maryland and california.
The research cost about $40 million.

new species discovered in Indonesian papua province

A national geographic expeition to the Foja mountains,which cover more than 300,000 square hectares have discovered new species including a spike-nosed tree frog,a gargoyle-like gecko,  a tiny forest wallaby,golden-front bowerbird,a tiny inchwood moth,wattled smoky honeyeater,golen-mantled tree kangaroo, butterflies,bats,pigeons,shrubs,tree mice and rats.

There were also long-beaked echidnas.
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Small drug trial promising in fight against cancer.

A trial involving 5 people with glioblastoma  multiforme given DCA(dichloroacetate) looks promising.
One person died,but in the other 4,the tumours stopped growing,and in one of the 4,tumour disappeared altogether.
The 4 were still alive 18 months later,3 times the average time of survival from this type of cancer.

Drugs which drive up AMPK activity also appear to increase cancer survival rates.

fast moving ocean current foound in Southern ocean

 Discovered near the eastern flank of the underwater kerguelen plateau,about 3,000 kilometres south west of australia.

The current flows at more than 8 million cubic metres per second,40 times as much as the amazon river transports.

Believed to be part of the global ocean`conveyor belt'.