Global Warming Could Quicken the Spread of Disease (1)
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Climate change could make it easier for some “deadly” diseases to be transmitted from animals to humans. Global Warming is not just about melting ice caps and rising temperatures. Scientists continue to discover new ways in which the “butterfly effect” of global warming could transform life on Earth as we know it. The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) released a report on October 7th, naming 12 deadly human-wildlife diseases that could spread into new regions as ...
Baskin Robbins Death Shake Has 2,300 Calories [Nutritional Information] (11)
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Please, do not ever buy this 2,300 calorie shake from Baskin Robbins, which contains approximately half a pound of sugar. As Consumerist reader Doug points out, Last time I checked, an adult male should consume 2,500 calories a day, and this shake nearly meets that requirement! The saturated fat present in that shake is over 3 times the RDA of 20 grams, which will put you on the fast track for heart disease. Of course, ...
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John S said:
I'll take two!
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nathos said:
mmmm...Death Shake *drool*
Customer: "I Have A Brain Tumor" Apple Rep: "Not My Problem. Okay. So You Want..." [Apple] (2)
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You don't have to believe everything customers say to you when you're a customer service rep. You don't even have to actually care. But if you can't stop yourself from slipping in phrases like "not my problem" when you're helping out a customer, maybe you need to try a different career. Like, say, parole officer. This customer wanted to remove his active mobileme address and turn one of his existing email only addresses into his ...
Safe and Effective small interfering RNA Delivery allows for drugs to be developed in Weeks (1)
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Tobacco mosaic virus is like a 18-nanometer wide straw, which can hold gene silencing RNAThe tobacco mosaic virus appears to be the key to safe and effective delivery of gene silencing RNA.Bentley's team has successfully hollowed out the virus and filled it with siRNA, and then used it to slip the frail substance into all sorts of cells, from kidney tissue to cancer. The researchers have proven that the tiny capsules provide adequate protection, and ...
Possible Cure for Ebola Could Revolutionize Antivirals (7)
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Ebola is the poster virus for outbreak scares because it spreads extremely fast and kills 90 percent of its victims by causing them to bleed uncontrollably. Featured in science-scare book The Hot Zone and countless cheesy movies, Ebola is considered ripe for development into a bio-weapon. But now it seems that a group of U.S. researchers may be on the fast track to a cure. In an article published online today in PLoS Pathogens, they ...
Fighting Nature (1)
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Maybe I shouldn't be so shocked, but I'm still surprised when I run across a gardener who insists on being able to control nature.A Master Gardener friend recently contacted me asking if I knew an expert who could talk to her garden group about growing tomatoes . Noting that problems with fungi were "particularly worrisome," she threw down the gauntlet: "Need to learn more about it and how to control it."When I suggested that the ...
Viropiracy - because safeguarding ‘intellectual property’ is more important than saving lives (7)
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This is just a *face-palm* of epic proportions - welcome to the concept of “viral sovereignty“. This extremely dangerous idea comes to us courtesy of Indonesia’s minister of health, Siti Fadilah Supari, who asserts that deadly viruses are the sovereign property of individual nations — even though they cross borders and could pose a pandemic threat to all the peoples of the world. Before anyone jumps down my throat, yes, there is a precedent for ...
ZOMG CATS WITH WINGS (2)
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Tom cats in Sichuan province in southern China have sprouted wing-like growths on their backs
retrovirally transforming pancreatic cells from adult mice into insulin-producing beta cells (1)
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Scientists Repurpose Adult Cells - "Scientists have transformed one type of fully developed adult cell directly into another inside a living animal, a startling advance that could lead to cures for a variety of illnesses and sidestep the political and ethical quagmires associated with embryonic stem cell research." [nature abstract, nature writeup, audio announcement]
Remembering Thomas Weller, Unappreciated Vaccine Hero (2)
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Thomas Weller, the Nobel laureate whose work made vaccines for polio, chicken pox and measles, has passed away. Weller's breakthrough involved the study of viruses in tissue cultures. Now taken for granted, this technique hadn't been developed during the mid-2oth century, when the polio virus ravaged America. Today's New York Times has an excellent obituary, which also contains this poignant description of the era:In the 1940s and 1950s, the much-feared and poorly understood poliomyelitis virus ...
Wait, Come Back: The Olympics Are Over (2)
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Well folks, the Olympics are over. And you know what that means: no more getting drunk at the bar and watching rhythmic gymnastics. Oh, and 100,000 used condoms. Wait, what? The UNAIDS, the Beijing organizing committee BOCOG and International Olympics Committee are providing 100,000 condoms as part of a campaign on HIV prevention and anti-discrimination. While sex is not an Olympic sport it is expected to be an activity in the Beijing village housing 10,500 ...
Dead babies don’t get A.D.D. (1)
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i just finished reading this MSNBC article: “Vaccine-wary parents spark public health worry” and I’ve gotta say, man are we eager to be ignorant. Essentially the article talks about how pockets of populations in the US have had large increases in the number of parents that are getting immunization exemptions. Their argument is that there are known and unknown side-effects to the immunizations - things ranging from allergic reactions and permanent brain damage to possibly ...
Tool: Vicarious Video (1)
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I know the world is more beautiful than this. It has to be. It has been. It is. But the following musical creation reveals those instances where watching horror flicks and pornography and abusing drugs and alcohol and overeating and stealing and burning shit up and lying about everything and being zombified by the media is all mind numbing or/and exciting for soooo many people. Oh being a human is so much fun! Are we ...
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