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Ageing is often related to degenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s, but now a breakthrough is achieved in the research for treating these. Scientists have found a way of giving old and tired muscles, responsible for degeneration,...
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A 51-year-old woman was charged with assault, reckless endangerment and tampering with evidence after she allegedly served a marijuana-tainted ginger cake to her real...
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Germany moved Friday against an outbreak of bird flu close to the Polish border, slaughtering 1,400 ducks and geese on a farm at Markersdorf near the city of Goerlitz.
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Patients in remote villages used to pay doctors and medical services with vegetables and farm animals. The practice still flourishes in this agricultural town. But this...
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As the scandal over melamine-tainted milk products continued to be discussed, two canned goods which are said to have come from China tested positive for cadmium, a...
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The government of Uganda is now developing a program to implement a nation-wide male circumcision exercise as part of the strategy to reduce HIV infection rates....
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The global economic crisis is likely to cause an upsurge in suicides and mental illness as people struggle to cope with losing their homes or livelihoods, the World...
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Scientists in Japan have identified four proteins in chicken legs which appear to be effective in controlling high blood pressure, a study has said.(Advertisement)In a...
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One in four teen girls have rolled up their sleeves for the relatively new vaccine against cervical cancer, federal health officials said Thursday.The figures represent...
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Given how opposition to legal abortion is almost entirely based on religious dogma, one might think that areas where belief in religious dogma is highest will be areas...
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“These are scary times for sex writers,” said Tracy Clark-Flory in Salon. One publication after another has fired star columnists, including The Village...
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Thirty six kids and youth were killed in more than six villages of Sitapur in UP due to a sudden spread of an unknown viral disease within the last 72 hours....
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What magic do the beautiful have that most of us lack? Neuroscientists, psychologists and anthropologists have all taken a stab at deconstructing facial beauty.
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Crystallized carbon has caused all kinds of trouble throughout human history, with the shiny rocks causing (and continuing to cause) bloodshed and strife by their high...
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Men who suffer from premature ejaculation may be able to blame their genes, work suggests.
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A US analysis of data on 53,567 men who have sex with other men found HIV rates were not significantly lower among those who were circumcised.
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Last week, Greenfood Yili Fresh Milk and Mengniu Drink, which have labels written in Chinese character, were found to contain traces of the toxic industrial chemical....
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With your body? Your weight? What to eat? What NOT to eat?
So is the world around you!
The “skinny bitch” era couldn’t be more dominant in its form, overriding...
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Cow’s blood, pus, hormones, pesticides, and antibiotics plus heaps and heaps of cholesterol — these are just some of the things you can find in cow’s...
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One German and two French scientists won the 2008 Nobel prize for medicine or physiology for their discoveries of two viruses that cause severe human diseases, the...
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The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) says it has banned the import of more than 30 generic drugs made by Indian drug firm Ranbaxy.
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For the first time, researchers have used stem cell technology to grow huge quantities of red blood cells. This could help eliminate the need for blood donations, as...
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Menstrual blood could actually be banked and used to save lives. It is supposed to contain adult stem cells that can develop into any of nine different types of cells,...
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Every woman dreams of having an hour-glass figure and only a few women are lucky enough to be endowed such a figure naturally. Making impossible dreams possible is the...
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Stem cell therapy is believed to be the next generation biomedical therapy that will revolutionize the world of medicine. The greatest problem involved in stem cell...
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I heard on the news the other day that researchers in the U.S. managed to create a working rat heart from stem cells. A step that brings us much closer to achieving the...
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Stem cells in an old tissue are still able to perform regenerative functions, provided they receive appropriate chemical signals, according to a new study.
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Researchers at Moorfields Eye Hospital in London have found that using stem cells they can help recreate parts of the eye. They have been using this awesome tool to...
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In a story Feb. 29 about the Roman Catholic Church’s opposition to embryonic stem cell research in Brazil, The Associated Press misidentified the president of the...
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There have been numerous researches and theories that have time and again proved that men are weaker than women in all aspects. There are even speculations that the...
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A scientist has achieved a world first... by cloning himself. In a breakthrough certain to provoke an ethical furore, Samuel Wood created embryo copies of himself by...
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Every year, millions of children are born across the world. Of these newly born babies, a sizable amount are born with a number of inherent metabolic disorders that...
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Using cloning to produce monkey embryos and then extracting stem cells from them reminds of yet another so-called ‘breakthrough’ in the field of science...
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He was awarded with the title of ‘Supreme Scientist’ in 2004. He was hailed as a national hero in South Korea, when he published details of what were...
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If you need a facial reconstruction for whatever reason, here is some great news. University of South California researcher Songtao Shi along with his colleagues...
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A positive breakthrough in regenerative medicine has enabled scientists to turn normal skin cells into an embryonic state in mice. If the research is successfully...
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Medical researchers have reported that they have engineered an adult stem cells those are derived from the human umbilical cord blood to produce insulin which one day...
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Superseding its own decision, the UK government has removed the ban on the creation of human-animal embryos. Scientists are now allowed to experiment on the hybrid...
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One of the major subjects that have caught everyone’s attention in medical science is the development of artificial organs. An artificial organ is a man-made...
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Professor Esmail Zanjani, of the University of Nevada has spent the last seven years and £5 million in perfecting a technique by which a sheep can be created with...
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