Easter

I have left this for a while and it has been gathering dust and piles - metaphorical piles i might add - of science are building up. Although my ever growing knowledge does its best to embarrass people, especially when explaining cervical cancer.


Moving swiftly on, we all know there is an economic downturn. While nobody really is feeling it yet, I feel science may be first hit with budget cuts, as long as this cuts out the bureaucracy this can be no bad thing, as at the moment ideas take years to even make it to the drawing board. However we may not see the effects now in this age but years down the line, this recession will surely hinder our scientific development. This will coincide with the industrialised countries shift from so called developing countries diseases such as cholera, sickle cell anaemia into the ones present in the western and developed world such as heart disease and cancer.

However my cynicism seems to be unfounded as Obama declared today that he would donate 3% of the gross domestic product, which when considering it was 2.6% before is a huge increase of over 15%.

Also another recent development is the complete sequencing of the cow genome, while not amazing at first. If it weren't for cows a lot of insulin would never have been produced, now it is produced by bacteria. This advancement does open up a possible increase in milk production, that can be no bad thing.