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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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Oddee.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)
This is a really nice Q & A about Marijuana as Medicine
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One 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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Through use of a new regenerative powder, a man’s severed finger is regrown. Incredible…
Most 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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The 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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Scientists 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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Scientists 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.
NEW 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.
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