A team of students from Houston’s Rice University are a virtual lock for a Nobel Prize with their latest research. They’ve bioengineered a beer that has anticancer properties.
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BioBeer Fights Cancer and Gets You Drunk
Saturday, October 18th, 2008
10 People with Unbelievable Medical Conditions
Wednesday, August 13th, 2008Oddee.com posted an article called 10 People with Unbelievable Medical Conditions. These are all really interesting and it makes you wonder what the human body / mind is capable of.
Here is a quick run down of the list. (make sure you go to http://www.oddee.com/item_96473.aspx for pics and descriptions)
- The Woman Who has 200 Orgasms every day
- The Man Who Can’t Get Fat
- The Man Who Doesn’t Feel Cold
- The Boy Who Couldn’t Sleep: stayed awake 24 hours a day for years
- The Girl Who is Allergic to Water
- The Woman Who Can’t Forget
- The Girl Who Eats Only Tic Tacs
- The Musician Who Can’t Stop Hiccuping
- The Girl That Collapses Every Time She Laughs
- The Woman Who is Allergic to Modern Technology
Marijuana As Medicine
Wednesday, July 16th, 2008Vaccine for Ebola virus
Monday, March 31st, 2008One of the world’s deadliest diseases, caused by the Ebola virus, may finally be preventable thanks to US and Canadian researchers, who have successfully tested several Ebola vaccines in primates and are now looking to adapt them for human use.
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Regenerative Power Grows Back A Man’s Finger
Monday, March 24th, 2008Through use of a new regenerative powder, a man’s severed finger is regrown. Incredible…
Human trials to begin on diabetes cure after mice are cured
Monday, March 17th, 2008Most diabetes sufferers could be cured within four years if a revolutionary treatment involving the BCG vaccine works, scientists said yesterday. A human clinical trial with hopes of finding a cure for type 1 diabetes is to start at a leading American research hospital using BCG, universally given for many years in Britain to prevent tuberculosis.
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Boys And Girls Brains Are Different
Wednesday, March 5th, 2008The researchers found that girls still showed significantly greater activation in language areas of the brain than boys. The information in the tasks got through to girls’ language areas of the brain — areas associated with abstract thinking through language. And their performance accuracy correlated with the degree of activation in some of these language areas.
To their astonishment, however, this was not at all the case for boys. In boys, accurate performance depended — when reading words — on how hard visual areas of the brain worked. In hearing words, boys’ performance depended on how hard auditory areas of the brain worked.
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Virus immunity ‘created in lab’
Thursday, February 14th, 2008Scientists have found a way to boost an organism’s natural anti-virus defenses – effectively making its cells immune to flu and other potential killers.
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Stem Cell Breakthrough Uses No Embryos
Tuesday, November 20th, 2007Scientists have made ordinary human skin cells take on the chameleon-like powers of embryonic stem cells, a startling breakthrough that might someday deliver the medical payoffs of embryo cloning without the controversy.
Many people don’t think AIDS is fatal
Wednesday, November 14th, 2007NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In a nine-country survey released today, more than 40 percent of respondents did not understand that AIDS is always a fatal disease.