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Life in Infinite Shades of Being
We all bleed red - except, perhaps, for the famed 19th century Fugate clan of the Appalachian Mountains. Blue Caucasians popped up in the hills as late as 1975, but the sprawling family never granted an interview and it took a scientist years to track down a member.
Blueish […]
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And they already play soccer! Well, sort of.
In the future, nano-robots may perform all kinds of important jobs for humans, including health-related jobs such as molecular repair. But shelve your sci-fi nerd nightmares about marauding swarms of wicked nano ‘bots romping around in your bloodstream: for one thing, these microscopic critters simply […]
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10 Great Alli Leaks, Oops, Links
Is it just me, or does the little teal container that comes with this worthless weight loss pill look like a miniature colon? It is kinda cute, I guess. Plus, I’m super glad that we’re giving teen girls more ways to be emaciated.
Doctors Have Been Reconsidering Definition of […]
The Center for Studies in Physics and Biology and Laboratory of Microbiology at Cornell in Ithaca is doing something revolutionary. They’ve tracked the evolution of a Staphylococcus aureus bacterial infection by periodically isolating it from the subjects body and fully sequencing its genome as they administer antibiotic treatment. They found 35 mutations as the bacteria’s […]
Next time you want to sound smarter than you are, casually insert this gem into a sentence, and watch your peers gasp in awe at your command of The English Language. They, struggling to comprehend what hath just dropped from your lips. You, gleefully imagining all of the mental gymnastics going on behind their collectively […]
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The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill outlawing genetic discrimination. This bill was on the books 12 years ago, and had passed The Senate twice (unanimously), but never made it through The House.
Well, it just passed 420 to 3, and the White House is backing it, so things are looking good for the […]
The MoMA store is offering a service I would take advantage of, were I a richer man. You send them them a swab of your spit. They send you a truly unique “self-portrait” of your DNA.
There’s lots of colors to choose from. The “portraits” are done on “archival quality canvas with pigmented inks”, whatever that means. […]
Newspapers in the US have raised alarm over new statistics released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) that suggest autism affects one in every 150 children. The figure surprised me – until I realised that it’s not too far off from what has been previously reported.
Last month we reported that a review […]
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Last year, a mixed race British couple gave birth to black and white twins. The mother and father had been born to mixed race couples themselves.
While very rare, the phenomenon is not unknown, though it does entail a very particular combination of circumstances at the moment of conception. First, both parents must be […]
It turns out that most of the human population of Earth have a protective gene signature from disease caused by prions, such as Mad Cow Disease. (This may explain why only 134 out of the English population of 50 million have been infected with the prion-driven killer.) This is good news for our health, but […]
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