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Scientists have developed a real, working and breathing human lung on a microchip. Researches from Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University, Harvard Medical School and Children’s Hospital Boston, have created a device, about the size of a rubber eraser, acts much like a lung in a human body and is made using [...]

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While it is somewhat understandable that smoking in public places is going away, sometimes it starts to get a little over the top. Many still aren’t happy they can’t smoke in bars where they are in there to toxify their bodies anyways with alcohol while grinding in their urban clothing on the dance floor in [...]

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It may sound far-fetched to consider the process of aging a “disease”, but that is exactly what many researchers are trying to accomplish. Bear with their explanation before you jump on me. The purpose of this new approach would turn the search for drugs to fight age-related diseases on its head, they say, and could [...]

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Laugh your way to health. We have long known that happiness, and especially laughter may have some sort of health benefits. Norman Cousins, a regular guy, in the 1970s with an autoimmune disease documented his treatment of laughter, and claims that it fought his disease into remission.
Dr. Lee S. Berk, a preventive care specialist [...]

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Minocycline, an agent used for acne prevention since the 1970’s has found its use in the prevention of HIV breakouts in a study at Johns Hopkins
Minocycline, is expected to be used in conjunction with the current drug treatments for HIV-infected patients as HAART (Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy),

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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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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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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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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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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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