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In Passo, Fundo Brazil geneticist Adil Pacheco took blood samples last Friday from three puppies in a poor neighborhood in in southern Brazil to settle a dispute over a claim they were born from a cat.

“It’s rather simple really. If the puppies prove to have 78 chromosomes, they are dogs. If they have 38, they are cats,” said Pacheco, director of the Institute of Biological Sciences of the University of Passo Fundo.

“But I seriously doubt they are feline. Every characteristic about them is canine.”  This is probably a hoax because there is no documented cases of dog and cats being able to mate successfully.

Our own ArgaKant (Steve) often purchases domain names for ideas he has for web sites. Well, earlier this year he was thinking about doing a similar site to E-bay and calling it Djunk. He bought the url www.djunk.com and it's been sitting around for a while.

Recently he started getting interest from people wanting to buy it. He did a search to fin what all the fuss was about and apparently there's a new rapper in the US with the current number 1 hit and he goes by the name of DJ Unk!!!!

How funny is that! Suffice to say Steve is going to sit on this one for while!

Ray

Stem cells may be responsible for tumors, according to two separate studies published on Sunday.

Canadian and Italian researchers both found that specialized colon cancer stem cells appeared to be the sources of colon cancer tumors in mice.

Their findings, published in the journal Nature, support the idea that future cancer treatments will have to target cancer stem cells, instead of the type of wide array treatments used today.

Similar findings have been seen for leukemia, breast and brain cancers, but the two studies are the first to show cancer stem cells are also responsible for colon tumors.

“Colon cancer is one of the best-understood neoplasms (tumors) from a genetic perspective, yet it remains the second most common cause of cancer-related death (in Canada), indicating that some of its cancer cells are not eradicated by current therapies,”

“These new studies demonstrate that a small number of colon cancer cells, distinct from those that make up the bulk of a tumor, initiate tumor growth,” Nature said in a statement.

It may be possible to design drugs that attack only those cells, and thus treat colon cancer in a way that better affects the tumors without hurting healthy cells, the researchers said.

Last Saturday night Adro, his wife Sam, my father-in-law Steve, and I went to the Fitness NSW annual awards night. It was held at the Hilton Hotel in Sydney and it really was a great night. No, we didn't win any awards but we were'nt nominated either :)

Sam only has a week to go now so she is heavily pregnant (and I mean heavily!). She hasn't put on a much weight but boy does she have a belly!

I haven't been to an industry function in years as I got sick of the crowd (that's right, I don't like hanging out with personal trainers either!) but it was refreshing to see the change in the industry. The show-ponies, steroid freaks, and barbie dolls are becoming less involved and in their place are professional, educated, and caring individuals.

Anyway, after meeting Justin Tampsett  and Robert Barnes from Fitness NSW I have a great deal of confidence in their organisations ability to improve the industry. Keep up the great work guys!

Hi guys,

David from The Biggest Loser has started up his walking groups again and you can get all the information here: Camp David

These groups are a great way for beginners to get moving in a very supportive environment.

Ray