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(http://www.physorg.com)
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about 18 hours ago
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D'Zhana Simmons says she felt like a "fake person" for 118 days when she had no heart beating in her chest. "But I know that I really was here," the 14-year-old said, "and I did live without a heart."
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(http://cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com)
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about 17 hours ago
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George Magnus, author of The Age of Aging and Senior Economic Adviser at UBS, talks about how the combination of an aqging global population and longer lifespans will wreak havoc.
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(http://news.prnewswire.com)
- scanned by: Jeff Hilford
about 14 hours ago
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The vicious cycle of stress, overeating and sleep deprivation that manifest during difficult times.
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(http://www.physorg.com)
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about 13 hours ago
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Scientists at the Buck Institute for Age Research have identified for the first time biomarkers of aging which are highly predictive of both chronological and physiological age. Biomarkers are biochemical features that can be used to measure the p...
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(http://www.physorg.com)
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A 10-year-old Chicago girl born with an abnormally small bladder that made her incontinent has become the first patient to benefit from a new robotic-assisted bladder-reconstruction method developed by surgeons at the University of Chicago Medical...
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(http://www.sciam.com)
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about 12 hours ago
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Proponents see hope in changing cancer vaccines' bad reputation.
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(http://www.nature.com)
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Surgeons have been operating on fetuses for more than two decades. Because of the danger to both mother and child, doctors reserve the procedure for just a handful of the most severe defects. As fetal diagnosis and treatment progress, however, phy...
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(http://www.redorbit.com)
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There's some good news for the people who are in favor of legalizing marijuana. Scientists from Ohio State University have found that there are properties in marijuana that help prevent the onset of Alzheimer's.
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(http://www.telegraph.co.uk)
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about 14 hours ago
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But researchers, who studied the self-assessments of the Millenials, or Generation Y, warn that instilling children with such confidence could be simply setting them up for a fall.
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(http://ouroboros.wordpress.com)
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about 12 hours ago
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A new study has measured the number of abasic sites (AP, referring to apurinic and apyrimidinic) in the mitochondrial genome of young and aged rat brain. AP sites are positions along the DNA backbone where no adenine, guanine, cytosine, or thymine...
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(http://www.memebox.com)
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13 days ago
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Touch Bionics, a “leading developer of advanced upper-limb prosthetics” has just made Time’s list of Top 50 inventions of 2008 (coming it at #14).
What’s so amazing about this invention?
For starters, each fin...
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