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This article is about a protein that can be mass produced in your body when you are infected with a new influenza virus. Viruses like H5N1 bird flu virus and swine flu are examples. If these viruses get into the body then the body produces these proteins called Mx, short for Myxovirus, that keep the [...]

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A place near and dear to many Californians. Santa Barbara California is home to newly discovered Asphalt Volcanoes. These unusual volcanoes are found in the Santa Barbara Channel and have been hidden for thousands of years due to murky water, too deep for scuba divers to go, and lack of exploration. The volcanoes are 700 feet under and are extremely [...]

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A new non-addictive painkiller has been connected to the ingredient that makes chili peppers hot, capsaicin.  This substance is generated at where pain occurs in the human body.  The painkiller has been developed by scientists to block the capsaicin-like molecules.  A new group of fatty acids that play an important role in creating pain, and [...]

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This article says scientist are now thinking that it is possible to see what is wrong with humans by checking dogs with the same illness. The article says that this is possible because these scientist have found that the illnesses and diseases in dogs are the same and react the same way to us humans.It [...]

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When spider mites attack a bean plant it responds by making odors that attract predatory mites. this helps control the population of spider mites. But  if the plant is continually attacked by whiteflies, insects that are related to aphids, the plant becomes less attractive to the predatory mites and more vulnerable to spider mites. Because of the whiteflies [...]

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The common target of cancer is now increasing. Tobacco plays an important part of your heart’s reaction to stress. “In many cancers, the body makes too much platelet-derived growth factor receptor (PDGFR), a type of protein that controls cell growth, allowing cancer cells to increase uncontrollably.” A lot of chemotherapy agents, work by targeting and [...]

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Scientists believe that they might have found certain lights to turn off brain cells. Not only would the lights be able to turn off the cells of the brain, they might be able to fix brain disorders. “Silencing different sets of neurons with different colors of light allows us to understand how they work together [...]

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