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MEAT Without Cruel Slaughtering In 6 Months !!!

MEAT Without Cruel Slaughtering In 6 Months !!!

Meat without slaughter: '6 months' to bio-sausages

Who needs whole animals when you can grow burgers and sausages from their cells alone, in the lab - and do your bit for the environment too

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News Articles and Discussion   bio_man   890   12 years ago

The First CYBORGS !!!

The First CYBORGS !!!

To celebrate the launch of critically acclaimed video game DEUS EX: HUMAN REVOLUTION, Square Enix has commissioned filmmaker Rob Spence aka Eyeborg (a self proclaimed cyborg who lost an eye replaced it with a wireless video camera) to investigate prosthetics, cybernetics and human augmentation. How far are we from the future presented to us in DEUS EX: HUMAN REVOLUTION?

News Articles and Discussion   bio_man   583   12 years ago

Scientists Discovered MOLECULES That Give Order To Grow HAIR

Scientists Discovered MOLECULES That Give Order To Grow HAIR

New Treatments for Baldness? Scientists Find Stem Cells That Tell Hair It's Time to Grow



Researchers have discovered the source of signals that trigger hair growth, an insight that may lead to new treatments for ba

News Articles and Discussion   bio_man   746   12 years ago

The End Of Hard Disks ? TWO TERABYTES of FLASH MEMORY Is Coming !!!

The End Of Hard Disks ? TWO TERABYTES of FLASH MEMORY Is Coming !!!

Transcend says USB stick capable of 2 TB storage

"Imagine that going into your tablet!" The presenter at the Display Taiwan 2011 Technology Show recently was demonstrating a finger-length, thin USB flash drive of 16 gigabytes. She told visitors, however, that what was really interesting about this little number

News Articles and Discussion   bio_man   779   12 years ago

Complex Biologic Systems Like BRAINS Evolved Independently At Least Four Times !

Complex Biologic Systems Like BRAINS Evolved Independently At Least Four Times !

Brainy molluscs evolved nervous systems four times

Evolved it my way

Slimy and often sluggish they may be, but some molluscs deserve credit for their brains – which, it now a

News Articles and Discussion   bio_man   840   12 years ago

A Scientist Is Trying To CREATE An Alien METALLIC LIFE Form In A Lab

A Scientist Is Trying To CREATE An Alien METALLIC LIFE Form In A Lab

Life-like cells are made of metal



Organic life hoping for inorganic

Could living things that evolved from metals be clunking about somewhere in the universe? Perhaps. In a

News Articles and Discussion   bio_man   1398   12 years ago

GENOMICS: Probably, The Fastest Technologic (R)Evolution

GENOMICS: Probably, The Fastest Technologic (R)Evolution

Richard Resnick shows how cheap and fast genome sequencing is about to turn health care (and insurance, and politics) upside down.

News Articles and Discussion   bio_man   591   12 years ago

Dimension-hop may allow neutrinos to cheat light speed

Dimension-hop may allow neutrinos to cheat light speed

Dimension-hop may allow neutrinos to cheat light speed



A CERN experiment claims to have caught neutrinos breaking the universe's most fundamental speed limit. The ghostly subatomic partic

News Articles and Discussion   bio_man   885   12 years ago

New Microbicide Targets the AIDS Virus Sugar Coating And Prevents It From Infec

New Microbicide Targets the AIDS Virus Sugar Coating And Prevents It From Infec

Targeting HIV's sugar coating: New microbicide may block AIDS virus from infecting cells



University of Utah bioengineer Patrick Kiser has discovered a new class of compounds that stick to the AIDS vi

News Articles and Discussion   bio_man   615   12 years ago

The People Who Gave Origin To Native Australians Left Africa Earlier Than Those

The People Who Gave Origin To Native Australians Left Africa Earlier Than Those

Lock of hair pins down early migration of Aborigines



A lock of hair is all that is needed to decode the history of an entire people

A lock of hair has helped scientists

News Articles and Discussion   bio_man   765   12 years ago

Inexhaustible source of hydrogen may be unlocked by salt water

Inexhaustible source of hydrogen may be unlocked by salt water

‘Inexhaustible’ source of hydrogen may be unlocked by salt water



Bruce Logan's bacterial hydrolysis cell with reverse electrodialysis stack.

A grain of salt or two may be all that micr

News Articles and Discussion   bio_man   606   12 years ago

LAUGHTER Produces Endorphins, Study Finds

LAUGHTER Produces Endorphins, Study Finds

Laughter Produces Endorphins, Study Finds

Laughter is regularly promoted as a source of health and well being, but it has been hard to pin down exactly why laughing until it hurts feels so good. The answer, reports Robin Dunbar, an evolutionary psychologist at Oxford, is not the intellectual pleasure of cerebral

News Articles and Discussion   bio_man   595   12 years ago

How Does the Brain Know What the Tongue Knows?

How Does the Brain Know What the Tongue Knows?

New Map Shows Where Tastes are Coded in the Brain: How Does the Brain Know What the Tongue Knows?

Each taste, from sweet to salty, is sensed by a unique set of neurons in the brains of mice, new research reveals. The findings demonstrate that neurons that respond to specific tastes are arranged discretely in what the scienti

News Articles and Discussion   bio_man   556   12 years ago

Non-Disease VIRUS Kills Breast CANCER Cells In Lab

Non-Disease VIRUS Kills Breast CANCER Cells In Lab

Non-Disease Virus Kills Breast Cancer Cells In Lab

A virus that infects humans without causing disease kills breast cancer cells in the laboratory. Researchers from Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) College of Medicine in the US, tested an unaltered form of adeno-associated virus type 2 (AAV2) on

News Articles and Discussion   bio_man   894   12 years ago

Your IMMUNE SYSTEM Learns How To Regulate Itself And How To Behave In Your COLON

Your IMMUNE SYSTEM Learns How To Regulate Itself And How To Behave In Your COLON

Colon identified as a seat of immune cell learning

HEY! T-cells! Leave them bugs alone! Some immune cells need an education to avoid attacking gut bacteria that help digest food - and their classroom is your colon.

One seat of immune cell learning - the thymus - is already known. Chyi-Song Hsieh at Washington Univ

News Articles and Discussion   bio_man   665   12 years ago

HEART BEATING Can Be Controlled By Pulses Of LIGHT !!!

HEART BEATING Can Be Controlled By Pulses Of LIGHT !!!

Light pulses keep heart cells beating

THE beating rhythm of human heart cells can be controlled using light. Researchers at Stanford University in California inserted a gene found in algae into human embryonic stem cells, then made the cells differentiate into heart muscle cells. The gene produces a light-sensitive protein c

News Articles and Discussion   bio_man   652   12 years ago

Invasion of genomic parasites triggered modern mammalian pregnancy

Invasion of genomic parasites triggered modern mammalian pregnancy

Genetic parasites invaded the mammalian genome more than 100 million years ago and dramatically changed the way mammals reproduce -- transforming the uterus in the ancestors of humans and other mammals from the production of eggs to a nurturing home for developing young, a new Yale University study has found.

The findings published online Sep

News Articles and Discussion   bio_man   583   12 years ago

Compound kills highly contagious flu strain by activating antiviral protein

Compound kills highly contagious flu strain by activating antiviral protein

Compound kills highly contagious flu strain by activating antiviral protein

A compound tested by UT Southwestern Medical Center investigators destroys several viruses, including the deadly Spanish flu that killed an estimated 30 million people in the worldwide pandemic of 1918.

This lead compound - which ac

News Articles and Discussion   bio_man   773   12 years ago

CARL SAGAN: The Human Brain

CARL SAGAN: The Human Brain

CARL SAGAN: The Human Brain

How many of us mostly use its primitive functions and how many of us frequently use its high and sublime functions ?

News Articles and Discussion   bio_man   593   12 years ago

Beyond Space-Time: Welcome To PHASE SPACE

Beyond Space-Time: Welcome To PHASE SPACE

Beyond space-time: Welcome to phase space



A theory of reality beyond Einstein's universe is taking shape – and a mysterious cosmic signal could soon fill in the blanks[/i

News Articles and Discussion   bio_man   585   12 years ago

BRAIN Needs SEROTONIN To Restrain AGGRESSION

BRAIN Needs SEROTONIN To Restrain AGGRESSION

Brain needs serotonin to restrain aggression



TETCHY people might calm down if they had more of the neurotransmitter serotonin. Researchers gave 19 healthy volunteers a diet that reduced their ser

News Articles and Discussion   bio_man   664   12 years ago

SPIES Could Hide SECRET MESSAGES In The DNA Of A Microbe

SPIES Could Hide SECRET MESSAGES In The DNA Of A Microbe

Spies could hide messages in gene-modified microbes



Microbial messaging

Forget invisible ink or lemon juice – spies can now send messages hidden in genetically engineered bacteria. The new met

News Articles and Discussion   bio_man   873   12 years ago

'Alarm Clock' GENE That Wakes You Up Identified !!!

'Alarm Clock' GENE That Wakes You Up Identified !!!

'Alarm clock' gene explains wake-up function of biological clock



The circadian clock depicts a person's regular physiological events during certain hours of the day.

Ever wondered why you wak

News Articles and Discussion   bio_man   731   12 years ago

Pavegen To Tap Pedestrians For Power In the UK

Pavegen To Tap Pedestrians For Power In the UK

http://inhabitat.com/award-winning-pavegen-floor-tiles-will-use-energy-from-footsteps-to-light-up-uk-shopping-center/

"Several years ago Laurence Kembell-Cook unveiled Pavegen floor tiles, which capture kinetic energy from footsteps and con

News Articles and Discussion   Testbanx2012   759   12 years ago

Beyond Space-Time: Welcome To PHASE SPACE

Beyond Space-Time: Welcome To PHASE SPACE

Beyond space-time: Welcome to phase space

A theory of reality beyond Einstein's universe is taking shape – and a mysterious cosmic signal could soon fill in the blanks

News Articles and Discussion   howard   817   12 years ago

Japan Re-Opens Some Towns Near Fukushima

Japan Re-Opens Some Towns Near Fukushima

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Sept. 27 (Bloomberg) -- Japan's government may lift restrictions this week on some areas outside the exclusion zone around the crippled Fukushima nuclear where

News Articles and Discussion   Testbanx2012   775   12 years ago

New technology uses brain scans to see what a person is watching

New technology uses brain scans to see what a person is watching

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Researchers have just wrapped production on a special movie of the mind that stars a brain scanner, a sophisticated computer program and millions of YouTube videos. By monitoring people’s bra

News Articles and Discussion   Testbanx2012   716   12 years ago

Breakthrough Material Purifies Water While Generating Electricity

Breakthrough Material Purifies Water While Generating Electricity

Breakthrough Material Purifies Water While Generating Electricity

At last, little chunks of aluminum everywhere can be something greater then a soda can or a baseball bat. Thanks to a special reactive alloy, some of those lucky little nuggets could solve the world’s energy crisis.

Jerry Woodall, an engineer at Purdue Univers

News Articles and Discussion   bio_man   680   12 years ago

Could INTERNET Allow DIRECT DEMOCRACY And Monitoring Closely The Elected Politic

Could INTERNET Allow DIRECT DEMOCRACY And Monitoring Closely The Elected Politic

Pirate politician: We want open, online government

An uberconnected world need a new politics, says Ben de Biel, spokesman for the Pirates party, who are making waves in Berlin, Germany

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News Articles and Discussion   bio_man   737   12 years ago

Social Hierarchy PREWIRED In The Brain

Social Hierarchy PREWIRED In The Brain

If you find yourself more of a follower than a social leader, it may something to do with the wiring in your brain. According to a new study in Science, researchers from the Chinese Academy of Science have discovered a location in the brain that is activ

News Articles and Discussion   bio_man   838   12 years ago

HUMANS Are Still EVOLVING Biologically - Study Debunks Popular Myth That Says Th

HUMANS Are Still EVOLVING Biologically - Study Debunks Popular Myth That Says Th

Study shows humans still evolving

A new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences provides evidence of human evolution and rapid genetic changes suggesting that, contrary to modern claims, technological and cultural advancements have not halted the evolutionary process in humans.

The new s

News Articles and Discussion   bio_man   809   12 years ago

Scientists Turns LIVER CELLS Directly Into NEURONS With New Technique

Scientists Turns LIVER CELLS Directly Into NEURONS With New Technique

Fully mature liver cells from laboratory mice have been transformed directly into functional neurons by researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine. The switch was accomplished with the introduction of just three genes and did not require the cells to first enter a pluripotent state. It is the first time that cells have been shown to leapfrog from one fundamentally

News Articles and Discussion   bio_man   684   12 years ago

New research: Are global honey bee declines caused by diesel pollution?

New research: Are global honey bee declines caused by diesel pollution?

New research: Are global honey bee declines caused by diesel pollution?

Scientists are investigating a possible link between tiny particles of pollution found in diesel fumes and the global collapse of honey bee colonies.

Professor Guy Poppy, an ecologist, Dr Tracey Newman, a neuroscientist, and their team from the Un

News Articles and Discussion   bio_man   825   12 years ago

Most vertebrates -- including humans -- descended from ancestor with sixth sense

Most vertebrates -- including humans -- descended from ancestor with sixth sense

Most vertebrates -- including humans -- descended from ancestor with sixth sense

People experience the world through five senses but sharks, paddlefishes and certain other aquatic vertebrates have a sixth sense: They can detect weak electrical fields in the water and use this information to detect prey, communicate and orient themse

News Articles and Discussion   bio_man   904   12 years ago

The Most Advanced Observatory ( ALMA ) Of Its Kind Is About To Be Completed And

The Most Advanced Observatory ( ALMA ) Of Its Kind Is About To Be Completed And

The most complex ground-based astronomy observatory in the world, the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), has officially opened for astronomers. The first released image, from a telescope still under construction, reveals a view of the Universe that cannot be seen at all by visible-light and infrared

News Articles and Discussion   bio_man   784   12 years ago

Sickle Cell Anemia Reversed Through Genetic Control !!!

Sickle Cell Anemia Reversed Through Genetic Control !!!

Scientists reverse sickle cell anemia by turning on fetal hemoglobin

Not long after birth, human babies transition from producing blood containing oxygen-rich fetal hemoglobin to blood bearing the adult hemoglobin protein. For children with sickle cell disease, the transition from the fetal to adult form of hemoglobin – the oxygen-c

News Articles and Discussion   bio_man   865   12 years ago

New research shows how viruses use 'good' gut bacteria to bypass immune system

New research shows how viruses use 'good' gut bacteria to bypass immune system

New research shows how viruses use 'good' gut bacteria to bypass immune system

Two new studies demonstrate how viruses, such as the one responsible for polio, use good bacteria in the human (or mouse) gut to evade detection by the immune system.

In one study, Sharon Kuss and her colleagues from the Universit

News Articles and Discussion   bio_man   913   12 years ago

First Genetically Engineered 'MAGNETIC' Algae

First Genetically Engineered 'MAGNETIC' Algae

LANL develops first genetically engineered 'magnetic' algae



The photos show wild type algae and magnetic algae placed in a test tube next to a permanent magnet. The wild type (left) settles to the bottom of the tube under

News Articles and Discussion   bio_man   605   12 years ago

Long Life Can Also Be Inherited Non-Genetically !!!

Long Life Can Also Be Inherited Non-Genetically !!!

Propensity for longer life span inherited non-genetically over generations, study says

We know that our environment -- what we eat, the toxic compounds we are exposed to -- can positively or negatively impact our life span. But could it also affect the longevity of our descendants, who may live under very different conditions? Recen

News Articles and Discussion   bio_man   614   12 years ago

Cells are crawling all over our bodies, but how?

Cells are crawling all over our bodies, but how?

Cells are crawling all over our bodies, but how?



This is an electron microscope image of two crawling worm sperm magnified ~5,000X.

For better and for worse, human health depends on a cell's motility -- the

News Articles and Discussion   bio_man   624   12 years ago