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Astronaut Edgar Mitchell Claims Alien Cover-up

Dr. Edgar Mitchell is a veteran of the Apollo 14 mission and he was the sixth man to walk on the Moon. Dr. Mitchell also insists that aliens have visited Earth and that governments are actively covering it up. "I happen to have been privileged enough to be in on the fact that we've been visited on this planet and the UFO phenomena is real," Dr Mitchell said. "It's been well covered up by all our governments for the last 60 years or so, but slowly it's leaked out and some of us have been privileged to have been briefed on some of it. "I've been in military and intelligence circles, who know that beneath the surface of what has been public knowledge, yes - we have been visited. Reading the papers recently, it's been happening quite a bit." Dr Mitchell, who has a Bachelor of Science degree in aeronautical engineering and a Doctor of Science degree in Aeronautics and Astronautics claimed Roswell was real and similar alien visits continue to be investigated. He told the astonished Kerrang! radio host Nick Margerrison: "This is really starting to open up. I think we're headed for real disclosure and some serious organisations are moving in that direction." NASA issued a quick denial. In a statement, a spokesman said: "NASA does not track UFOs. NASA is not involved in any sort of cover up about alien life on this planet or anywhere in the universe. "Dr Mitchell is a great American, but we do not share his opinions on this issue." If Dr. Mitchell is correct about a cover-up than this is exactly the type of denial one would expect NASA to make. You can listen to the interview with Dr. Mitchell where he discusses the UFO phenomena here. Permalink | Recent Headlines | News Feeds Read more…

New Insight Into Childhood Metabolic Disease

15.10.2007 07:33 Science - Source: ScienceDaily Headlines

Science Daily — Glutaric acidemia type I (GA-I) is an inherited disorder similar to Huntington disease. Individuals with GA-I are unable to breakdown completely the amino acids lysine and tryptophan and the intermediates of lysine and tryptophan breakdown accumulate in the brain.

In most, but not all, affected children, a period of normal development is followed by an irreversible brain injury triggered by a nonspecific illness. If children with GA-I reach 5 years of age without suffering brain injury they usually never show symptoms of the disease.

New research using a mouse model of GA-I (Gcdh--/-- mice) by William Zinnanti and colleagues at Penn State, Hershey, has provided insight into the mechanisms underlying injury and age-dependent susceptibility to the disease and suggested a way to monitor children with the disease.

Gcdh--/-- mice do not develop disease if lysine and tryptophan are excluded from their diet. Exposure to lysine in the diet caused brain damage in both young and adult mice, but the extent of the damage was much greater in the young mice.

This was shown to be because lysine uptake is enhanced in the immature brain compared with the adult brain and so more intermediates of lysine degradation accumulated, thereby increasing the susceptibility to brain damage.

Treating young Gcdh--/-- mice with homoarginine, to limit brain uptake of lysine, and glucose, to limit lysine degradation, substantially decreased brain damage caused by exposure to lysine in the diet.

Furthermore, brain injury was preceded by decreases in glutamate and GABA in the brain that could be monitored by proton nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, providing hope that a way of monitoring children with GA-I to predict the onset of brain injury might be developed.

Article: Mechanism of age-dependent susceptibility and novel treatment strategy in glutaric acidemia type I

Note: This story has been adapted from material provided by Journal of Clinical Investigation.