February 20th, 2010
According to the researchers at Natural History Museum of Denmark in Copenhagen, a nearly complete sequence of nuclear DNA was extracted from a man over 4,000 years old.
Morten Rasmussen of the Natural History Museum of Denmark in Copenhagen and his colleagues, have discovered that the Greenlander, they call him Inuk, seems to have origins [...]
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February 19th, 2010
Scientists in Italy have found evidence of the role viruses played in human evolution they said Friday. Their hope is that they can use this information to study and create vaccines and better drugs (nice) in the future.
They found more than 400 different mutations in 139 genes that play a role in people’s risk of [...]
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January 18th, 2010
Creating and artificial blood alternative to real human blood is a huge business. Personally, I have never really even thought about this concept before, but it definitely peaked my interest when I saw an article discussing the research going into this goal.
In the UK, there has been more than one billion pounds spent over the [...]
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January 16th, 2010
If you study anything long enough you can bet it “down to a science”. Why would cooking be any different? Certainly, you have other aspects to cooking that can help make a difference, like your little twists that you can never repeat because they are the old fashioned “taste test” method.
A biochemist and a [...]
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January 14th, 2010
Catchy title, eh? Well…it is in line with the story I wanted to talk about. Since I put the title out there, I wonder what people thought when they see that title. I am willing to bet that there are people who would say they would rather die than be paralyzed, but enough of the [...]
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January 7th, 2010
Well, well, well…so we go from cell phones causing brain tumors, and frankly sending signals into your brain seems like it is a bad thing (it probably is in reality), scientists claim that cell phone use may actually help protect against Alzheimer’s disease.
The millions of people who spend hours every day on a cell [...]
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November 18th, 2009
Hardening of the arteries is at least as old as your mummy. God grief that was stupid…lol
Let’s try that again. Heart disease has been found in Egyptian mummies as old as 3,5000 years old. This suggests that the factors of the heart are not just a modern day factor from modern day problems. So that [...]
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November 4th, 2009
According to a report in the November issue of Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, a study of 3-year olds who watch a lot of TV may be much more aggressive than those that do not. Really? You mean violence shown to children has an affect on them? You don’t say.
“Early childhood aggression can be [...]
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November 1st, 2009
Everyone knows that eating health is important to keep the immune system healthy. They also know that anitoxidents probably help do something. Even if they don’t know exactly what, we have certainly been groomed to believe in the last few years that antioxidents are extremely helpful when it comes to our health.
Is the same true [...]
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October 24th, 2009
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has just awarded just over $100 million to 32 plant genome research projects. These projects are designed to to help in the understanding of the plant genome in hopes that they will be able to understand more fully how they react to the environment. The projects are there to find [...]
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