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Glow-In-The-Dark Cats Could Help Find Cure for AIDS 0
- Health & Medicine, HIV and AIDS
- September 21, 2011
Genetically-engineered cats can help scientists to introduce protective genes against HIV. A new genetic-engineering technique that makes cats glow in the dark could help scientists understand HIV and AIDS as well as feline immunodeficiency virus (FIV). Cats that can glow in the dark from a new genetic engineering technique are helping scientists study molecules that could
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Books – The Pain Chronicles: Cures, Myths, Mysteries, Prayers, Diaries, Brain Scans, Healing, and the Science of Suffering 0
- Health & Medicine
- September 20, 2011
Everyone experiences physical pain every now and then, but for some people, pain is a constant part of their lives. Millions of us (70 million in the U.S.alone) suffer from pain on a daily basis. In “The Pain Chronicles” Melanie Thernstrom tells the story of pain, starting thousands of years ago and ending in experimental modern
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The Heart Can Be Triggered to Repair Itself 0
- Health & Medicine, Sections
- July 20, 2011
Promising new research suggests that the heart may be triggered to repair itself. Researchers, who used mice, hope the new treatment will be available for humans within the next five years. Although many advances have been made in preventing people from having a heart attack, the damage a heart attack causes to the heart –
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Risk-free Down Syndrome Test Available Soon 0
- Health & Medicine, Sections
- June 20, 2011
Good news for future parents: within two years a new improved blood test will be available, which can tell you whether your unborn child has Down syndrome. The test is supposed to be easy to use, cheap and risk-free. Currently, Down syndrome can only be detected using two fairly invasive procedures: ‘amniocentesis’ and ‘chorionic villus
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Vaccine Protects Macaques from Monkey AIDS 0
- Health & Medicine
- June 11, 2011
A new vaccine contains genes stitched into the cytomegalovirus (CMV), a genetically modified and almost harmless version of SIV; the ‘monkey version’ of HIV. The modified virus produces antibodies, which protects the monkeys from getting infected with SIV. During an experiment, 24 macaques were vaccinated with the modified virus. One year later, 12 of them were
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Books – The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer 0
- Cancer and Habits, Health & Medicine
- May 20, 2011
Think of cancer as person. A hostile complex and very persistent individual. According to oncologist Sid Mukherjee, this is the best approach to understand the history of cancer. Recently, Mukerjee wrote cancer’s biography. From the first chemotherapy developed from textile dyes to the possibilities emerging from our understanding of cancer cells, Mukherjee leaves no stone
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