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BioBeer Fights Cancer and Gets You Drunk

seandfeeney — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 22:37:21 +0000

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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10 People with Unbelievable Medical Conditions

seandfeeney — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 17:48:33 +0000

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)

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

seandfeeney — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 13:34:08 +0000

This is a really nice Q & A about Marijuana as Medicine

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Vaccine for Ebola virus

seandfeeney — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 12:35:29 +0000

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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Regenerative Power Grows Back A Man’s Finger

seandfeeney — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 16:27:31 +0000

Through use of a new regenerative powder, a man’s severed finger is regrown. Incredible…



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Human trials to begin on diabetes cure after mice are cured
seandfeeney — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 15:18:40 +0000
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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Boys And Girls Brains Are Different
seandfeeney — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 22:29:00 +0000
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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Virus immunity ‘created in lab’
seandfeeney — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 21:04:12 +0000
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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Stem Cell Breakthrough Uses No Embryos
seandfeeney — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 19:07:26 +0000
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.
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Many people don’t think AIDS is fatal
seandfeeney — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 19:44:55 +0000
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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