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A GREAT STEP Towards AUGMENTED HUMANS And Animals: Now, Virtually Any Specific

A GREAT STEP Towards AUGMENTED HUMANS And Animals: Now, Virtually Any Specific

Genome editing, a next step in genetic therapy, corrects hemophilia in animals

Using an innovative gene therapy technique called genome editing that hones in on the precise location of mut

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Monkeys get glow-in-the-dark eyes

Monkeys get glow-in-the-dark eyes

A gene therapy treatment in monkeys may pave the way to curing the blind.

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Pandora's Dark Mystery

Pandora's Dark Mystery

From the European Space Agency and the European Southern Observatory. This video explores recent observations of the galaxy cluster Abell 2744, nicknamed Pandora's Clust

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Scientists Accurately PREDICT AGE With SALIVA Sample !!!

Scientists Accurately PREDICT AGE With SALIVA Sample !!!

Scientists accurately predict age with saliva sample

Self-conscious about your age? Careful where you spit. UCLA geneticists now can use saliva to reveal how old you are

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PARROTS Join the "Club" Of Logical-Reasoning Animals

PARROTS Join the "Club" Of Logical-Reasoning Animals

Parrots join apes and Aristotle in the club of reason



Not such a birdbrain

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First SELF-POWERED Device With WIRELESS DATA Transmission !!!

First SELF-POWERED Device With WIRELESS DATA Transmission !!!

First Self-Powered Device With Wireless Data Transmission



Scientists are reporting developm

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Defective Epigenetic Control in MITOCHONDRIA Might Cause CANCER and Influence th

Defective Epigenetic Control in MITOCHONDRIA Might Cause CANCER and Influence th

Discoveries in mitochondria open new field of cancer research

Researchers at Virginia Commonwealth University Massey Cancer Center have revealed novel mechanisms in mito

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Some CHINESE HERBAL MEDICINE Really Works !!! ( Lab tests confirm the positive r

Some CHINESE HERBAL MEDICINE Really Works !!! ( Lab tests confirm the positive r

Chinese medicine offers new Parkinson's treatments



There's an active ingredient in t

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Scientists Have Now LEVITATED MICE Using Magnetic Fields !!! ( What Next ? Human

Scientists Have Now LEVITATED MICE Using Magnetic Fields !!! ( What Next ? Human

A three-week-old mouse weighing about 10 grams levitated by magnetic fields, either with a magnet (a) or without (b).

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Sex With Neanderthals Helped Us Go Global

Sex With Neanderthals Helped Us Go Global

Breeding with Neanderthals helped humans go global



Neanderth

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Scientists Are Finding Out Why Hair Turns Gray

Scientists Are Finding Out Why Hair Turns Gray

Why Hair Turns Gray: Communication Between Hair Follicles and Melanocyte Stem Cells Key to Mystery

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DNA 'Off Switch' May Reverse PREMATURE AGING

DNA 'Off Switch' May Reverse PREMATURE AGING

DNA 'off switch' may reverse premature aging

The secret to preventing or reversing premature aging may be found in a DNA “off switch” that humans share with common yeast, accordi

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TELOMERES’ Shortening Contributes to the AGING PROCESS By Causing The Production

TELOMERES’ Shortening Contributes to the AGING PROCESS By Causing The Production

Researchers find new clues about aging

National Institutes of Health researchers have identified a new pathway that sets the clock for programmed aging in normal cells. The study provides

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Animals Solve Problems That Even Some Humans Find Difficult !!!

Animals Solve Problems That Even Some Humans Find Difficult !!!

Spitting and urinating chimps 'replay Aesop's fable'

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A System That Causes LIVING CELLS To Emit LASER Light !!!

A System That Causes LIVING CELLS To Emit LASER Light !!!

First 'living' laser made from kidney cell



A human cell, alive an

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TELOMERES' Shortening Contributes to the AGING PROCESS By Causing The Production

TELOMERES' Shortening Contributes to the AGING PROCESS By Causing The Production

Researchers find new clues about aging

National Institutes of Health researchers have identified a new pathway that sets the clock for programmed aging in normal cells. The study provides

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We Are All MUTANTS

We Are All MUTANTS

60 new mutations in each of us: Speed of human mutation revealed in new family genetic research



Each one of us rece

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Do Biology majors have trouble finding jobs?

Do Biology majors have trouble finding jobs?

I heard this was true from a few people, but wanted some more input. If so, why is that?

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pediatric medication administration

pediatric medication administration

*The 6 "rights" of medication administration are basic to administering to anyone, but adminstering to a child is much more complex, because of their immature body systens and varying sizes. The six "rights are: right medication, right

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Now You Can Record on Video What Someone Does or Says By Using Special Glasses !

Now You Can Record on Video What Someone Does or Says By Using Special Glasses !

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Quantum Process Found To Be Quite Important In Chemical Reactions !!!

Quantum Process Found To Be Quite Important In Chemical Reactions !!!

New driving force for chemical reactions discovered

New research just published in the journal Science by a team of chemists at the University of Georgia and colleagues in Germany shows fo

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When Eating ‘Dirt’ Actually Cleans The Organism From Toxins And Pathogens

When Eating ‘Dirt’ Actually Cleans The Organism From Toxins And Pathogens

Study: Animals and humans eat clay to rid toxins

The phrase "eat dirt" takes on a whole new meaning when used by biologists, who have widely observed that huma

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Scientists Build a Computer that Uses DNA and Biochemical Reactions

Scientists Build a Computer that Uses DNA and Biochemical Reactions

Researchers Build Complex Biochemical Circuit from Small Synthetic DNA Molecules



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First Wood-Digesting Enzyme Found In Bacteria Could Boost Biofuel Production

First Wood-Digesting Enzyme Found In Bacteria Could Boost Biofuel Production

First wood-digesting enzyme found in bacteria could boost biofuel production

University of Warwick researchers funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC)-

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New Genetic Technique Converts Skin Cells Into Brain Cells !!!

New Genetic Technique Converts Skin Cells Into Brain Cells !!!

New genetic technique converts skin cells into brain cells

A research breakthrough has proven that it is possible to reprogram mature cells from human skin directly into brain cells, witho

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Can you get pregnant with one fallopian tube and one ovary?

Can you get pregnant with one fallopian tube and one ovary?

Your fallopian tubes are the gateways to conception. Once you ovulated, the egg travels down the fallopian tube where it can ge

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the five-finger shoes?

the five-finger shoes?

Hey Everyone! This isn't a homework question, just a girl curious for answers! (And hoping some of you can answer it for me!)

I've been reading up about the anatomy of the foot in relation to running. I came across a lot of infor

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A Creative Way Of Teaching About Chemical Elements - Hydrogen

A Creative Way Of Teaching About Chemical Elements - Hydrogen

Hydrogen - Periodic Table of Videos

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QUANTUM 'WEIRDNESS' Seen On Visible ( Macroscopic ) Object !!!

QUANTUM 'WEIRDNESS' Seen On Visible ( Macroscopic ) Object !!!

Aaron O'Connell: Making sense of a visible quantum object

Physicists are used to the idea that subatomic particles behave according to the bizarre rules of quantum mechanics, completely different to human-scale

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Species Lifespan Can Range From Few Days To Immortality

Species Lifespan Can Range From Few Days To Immortality

Nature's guide to immortality



Bonobos, like many other primates,

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BLOOD TEST That Can Instantly Diagnose DEPRESSION Invented !

BLOOD TEST That Can Instantly Diagnose DEPRESSION Invented !

Blood test can instantly diagnose depression

Backed by the medical research group Human Metabolome Technologies (HMT), researchers at Keio University have developed a te

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Escape to a Parallel Universe

Escape to a Parallel Universe

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Part Of The MISSING-MASS Of The UNIVERSE Was Discovered By A Female Student

Part Of The MISSING-MASS Of The UNIVERSE Was Discovered By A Female Student

Universe's not-so-missing mass

A Monash student has made a breakthrough in the field of astrophysics, discovering what has until now been described as the Universe&

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Study: People would donate kidneys for payment

Study: People would donate kidneys for payment

This is something that scares me.

This study asked 342 participants whether they would donate a kidney with varying payments of $0, $10,000 and $100,000. The study called for a real-world test of a regulated payment system. The possibility

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We Might Be Able To SEE Through SOUNDS ( Echolocation ) Like BATS !!!

We Might Be Able To SEE Through SOUNDS ( Echolocation ) Like BATS !!!

Human brain's 'bat sight' found



The part o

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other names for CNA

other names for CNA

I heard someone call a CNA another name but I cant remember it:: It was A&O U&A or A&U???
does anybody know what they refer to as nurse assistants??

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Free AP Psych Released Exams for 2004 and 2007!

Free AP Psych Released Exams for 2004 and 2007!

I could really use your help! 

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The Secret Life of Chaos

The Secret Life of Chaos

Chaos theory has a bad name, conjuring up images of unpredictable weather, economic crashes and science gone wrong. But there is a fascinating and hidden side to Chaos, one that scientists are only now beginning to understand.

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Autistic Brains' 'Genes Differ'

Autistic Brains' 'Genes Differ'

Autistic brains' 'genes differ'

The brains of people with autism ar

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Ball-Catching ROBOT !

Ball-Catching ROBOT !

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