July 10th, 2011
As you can imagine, heart cells are some of the more sought after cells to be able to create, and/or program from other cells considering that as we get older it is one of the organs that tends to be our demise. Now, researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania [...]
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June 22nd, 2011
If you are a health nut you have probably looked into organic foods. Organic foods are foods that must be produced without the use of artificial colors or flavors, preservatives, irradiation, or GMOs. The organic food industry is the most regulated and monitored system in the U.S. All food that is certified by the USDA [...]
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June 11th, 2011
Everyone knows that people only smoke so they can remain thin. Surely this is the reason right? Just kidding, but it is common knowledge that when people quit smoking they tend to gain weight. Smoking is known to work as an appetite suppressant so researches are trying to pinpoint what exactly it does to the [...]
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May 15th, 2011
This article caught my eye because I have a friend that is currently using an electronic cigarette. This study suggests that electronic cigarettes are a promising tool to help smokers quit, producing six-month abstinence rates nearly double those for traditional nicotine replacement products. First of all, what exactly are electronic cigarettes? If you haven’t seen [...]
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March 5th, 2011
This is a very interesting study to me. While the first thought I had was people that burn their brain cells with drugs and booze, the actual study is designed to help Alzheimer’s patients. U.S. researchers have coaxed stem cells into becoming a type of brain cell that dies off early in people with Alzheimer’s [...]
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February 19th, 2011
There has been more and more talk over recent years about transferring consciousness into a machine that may allow humans to live on long past their bodies. I was actually thinking about this for a short story (it is more comedic than anything, but it had this idea in it) as recent as yesterday. More [...]
Filed under: Biology, Health and Medicine, Psychology/Human Mind by JMH
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February 19th, 2011
The laser was produced over 50 years ago. Anti-lasers work to cancel lasers out. Incoming beams of light interfere with one another in such a way as to perfectly cancel each other out. A little more scientific than the african mango diet pill, but quite an interesting report, which has been theorized for decades, and [...]
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February 17th, 2011
I don’t care what project you were working on, or study, but when you stumble upon a side effect that may help regrow hair you probably just hit the jackpot. A new set of custom presentation folders are probably your next step. A team led by researchers from UCLA and the Veterans Administration that were [...]
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February 6th, 2011
Recent numbers suggest that non-melanoma skin cancer doubled from 1994-2006. More than 3.5 million cases were estimated in 2006. Speaking February 4 at the 69th Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Dermatology (Academy), dermatologist Brett M. Coldiron, MD, FAAD, clinical associate professor of dermatology at the University of Cincinnati in Cincinnati, Ohio, presented new [...]
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January 19th, 2011
You have always heard that cellphones can cause brain tumors. Then you probably heard jokingly that they cause brain tumors, and that they really were no threat. Now, are we being told that they are actually a risk? Just look at some of the history of studying this issue. This article from 2006 claims they [...]
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