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     Millions of people in the world suffer from alzheimer’s and scientists are working on a way to cure it. To read the article click here. Scientists have cloned pigs and genetically modified them to act with alzheimers disease.  They did this by constructing the genes with the putative alzheimer gene and inserting into the somatic [...]

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          We have all heard of talking fish.  Whether its the talking clown fish “Nemo” or a barking shark, it has never been proved that fish actually “talk” or verbally communicate with each other, until now.  Andrew Bass and his colleagues, Edwin Gilland of Howard University and Robert Baker of New York University have proven [...]

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Scientists have discovered that walnut trees have there own way of dealing with stress. However, unlike humans, who take aspirin when they have a fever, walnut trees produce methyl salicylate, which is a chemical form of aspirin. This is a walnut tree’s way of responding to stress, like a drought, or even a change in [...]

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     Diabetes is an autoimmune disease in which a person’s immune system attacks cells in the pancreas which produce insulin. Research suggests that exposure to some forms of bacteria might actually prevent Type 1 diabetes. In a study, mice exposed to killed strains of tuberculosis or other-disease causing bacteria were protected against the development of [...]

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Scientists and biologists have been searching for alternate fuels for years. They recently discovered that they can use sugar from agricultural waste and non-food plants into gasoline, jet fuel, and many other valuable chemicals. They have announced that sugars and carbohydrates can be processed like fuel and help the pharmaceutical and chemical industries. The gas that [...]

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For over the last 20 years, Michael Dickinson has been asked many times the question why are flies so hard to swat?  Until now, he hasn’t had an answer to their question.  Dickinson used high resolution and high speed digital imaging of fruit flies when they were faced with a swatter.  He observed that the [...]

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Diabetes. It’s a growing problem in today’s developing world. In the past decade, the number of people in the world with diabetes has risen from 30 million, to 230 million. Those with the chronic disease understand the struggles and difficulties that come along with it, but a new discovery may help bring relief to those diabetics. [...]

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