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DNA research approaches the origins of human beings |
 ...Society together with IBM initiate a global project where more than 10,000 inhabitants will have their DNA tested to make up a huge database. Efforts of well-known scientists in geography and genetic medicine will reside in 10 world regions to find traces of human ancestry.
Aside from DNA information collected from indigenous people, other people can also have their genetic data tested and take part in the research on v... |
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A Trojan-horse strategy selected to fight bacteria |
 ...such bacteria was recently used and it proved to be successful on mice.
One of the problems of today's medical researches is the fact that bacteria become more and more resistant to antibiotics. The medicine cannot provide an effective drug to kill all the chronic infections occurring in wounds or in the lungs of people with cystic fibrosis.
This way the current study is directed at finding a new approach in fighting up... |
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Now one blood group fits everyone |
 ...A new discovery was made by international scientific team who established a way to convert one blood group into another.
The finding can revolutionize medicine as it means there will be no lack of blood supplies. The study conducted by experts from University of Copenhagen published their results in Nature Biotechnology journal, where it is stated that O blood group can be a source for all the other blood types (A, ... |
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Robot to Help Neurosurgery |
 ...obot system, developed at University of Calgary. Surgeons' mistakes will no longer take place because the NeuroArm is going to upgrade the level of neurosurgery as well as other branches of operative medicine.
It it the first MRI-compatible robot in the world and its creator is Dr. Garnette Sutherland. For six years he has worked together with a leading team of Canadian Scientists. Dr. Garnette has cooperated with MacD... |
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Chinese Products - to Buy or not to Buy? |
 ...operly with quality problems.
Approximately 200,000 human deaths caused by improper use of legitimate drugs are annually registred in China. At least 100 people in Panama died because of a Chinese medicine ingredient, according to a New York Timesreport. It is obvious that China has to face the accute problem of unsteady system of food and medicine inspections. In April, the ruling Communist Party's Politburo met to di... |
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Doctor Removes Gall Bladder through Woman's Mouth |
| ...cedure without general anesthetic.
As gall bladder is one of the most wide-spread surgeries, with more than 500,000 Americans requiring its removal, the new procedure can become a breakthrough in medicine.
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And now, it's banana flavored too |
 ...vors.
Roy Giorgi, commander of Yolo Narcotic Enforcement Team, said the new sweetened drugs' price has jumped up to 40% higher than the old prices.
Mr. Giorgi said that the users felt a sort of medicine taste in the back of their throats when the drug was snored, yet now, they have strawberries in their throats... and handcuffs on their hands.
Beside strawberry and coconut flavors, there were reports of such exot... |
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Chinese Deliver Live Rats to Restaurants |
 ...al with the rat invasion problem. The idea to cook rat meat in restaurants was partially suggested by the lack of snakes, a popular dish in the south of China, and owls, traditionally used in Chinese medicine.
Some vendors asked the residents of a village in Hunan province, located near Dongting Lake, to sell them live rats, according to the Beijing News. Vendors offer 6 yuan for a kilo of live rats, but they keep sil... |
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Better Bras for Women - Hong-Kong Researchers Say They Did It |
| ...he choice of bras' sizes from 8 to 16.
According to Hong-Kong scientists the new measurements' system will be of great help not only in the clothes industry, providing women with better bras, but in medicine and surgery. The new 3D breast scanning could provide surgeons and medics with vital information about the patient's breast shape, which could be used either for plastic surgery or for making better breast implants.
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Impostor dentist works for 29 years |
 ...t his home treating patients on an old examining chair. The fake dentist persuaded his neighbors he is a retired army doctor. During the raid police found antibiotics, syringes, painkillers and other medicine together with an old chair dating 1940's, thrown away during the war by Malaysian army.
The doctor charged about $7 for tooth extraction and about $45 for dentures. The fake dentist is accused of illegal medical ... |
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Animal Crew Returns from Space |
 ...weightlessness, which is very hard to create, said Yury Nosenko, the deputy chief of the Russian Federal Space Agency.
The findings could be very important not only for space technologies but for medicine too.
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The 2007 Winners of Ig Nobel Prize Who Made us Laugh and Think |
 ...ders Theatre on Thursday night, October 4. The Ig Nobel Prizes that are parodies of the real Nobel Prizes, are awarded annually to celebrate unusual, creative and improbable achievements in science, medicine and technology. Some of these inventions may seem weird and hilarious nevertheless they are truly breakthroughs in science.
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Brian Witcombe of Gloucester, UK, and Dan Meyer of Antioch, Tennessee, USA, was... |
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The Nobel Prize 2007 Has Been Given Away |
 ...nto play.
It is a fact that the most renown and prestigious scientific award is the Nobel Prize, which takes place once a year in the Swedish capital. The Nobel Prize is awarded in five nominations: Medicine, Physics, Chemistry, Peace and Economics (the latter only since 1969).
This year's first Nobel Prize was awarded for medical achievements to three scientists, who have dedicated their researches to genetics. Their r... |
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Scientists Manage to Revive Sensations in the Amputated Limbs |
 ...ere they had the particular sensation and describe it. When these patients were touched on the chest, they reported about sensations in their artificial limb.
This can lead to a breakthrough in medicine, creating a nervous system feedback in devices that substitute the missing limbs.
Although researchers claim that full reestablishment of the nerve sensations were not made yet due to the fact that it may be due t... |
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Woman's Death Linked to Second-Hand Smoking |
 ...o smoke may cause coronary heart disease, lung cancer and premature death. The reported case highlights the danger of a second hand smoking to all employees.
Kenneth Rosenman, an MSU professor of medicine and chief of the Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine said that ETC has long-term effects not only for people suffering from asthma, but other employees, who have a right to work in a healthy and safe ... |
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