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Don't look far... And you'll enjoy the total divine vision!
New highly technological lens will develope a sopfhisticated display device on their material. Are human eyes ready to such a wonder?
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Sexercise - Fitness is freedom
Be more attractive and desirable... Exercise and learn confidence, then have adventurous inventive energetic sex - - -
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mind your mind
if your brain got a D- on its last report card. try out these suggested mental medicines
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Light intensity sensors that control body clock are found in eye
They detect the presence and intensity of light. The discovery could lead to treatments of some sleep and mood disorders:
Scientists have discovered the function of a third type of light sensor in the eye -- not vision, but control of the body's internal clock -- opening a new pathway for potential treatments of light-related mood and sleep disorders.
The sensors, found in 2% of retinal cells, are dedicated to detecting the presence and intensity of light through the use of a light-sensitive molecule called melanopsin, researchers reported this week in the journal PLoS ONE.
They found that mice without the sensor were unable to reset their internal biological clocks. The nocturnal animals woke up half an hour earlier every evening, never properly adjusting to a 24-hour day, researchers reported.
Scientists have been searching for light-level sensors since the 1920s, when it was noted that some blind patients' pupils dilated in response to bright light, suggesting the existence of a sensor separate from the rod and cone cells responsible for vision.
Project leader Satchin Panda of the Regulatory Biology Laboratory at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla said that searches of the recently sequenced mouse and human genomes revealed that both contained an extra light sensor gene... [So, I wonder, with all this similarity to mice and the humane genome, why isn't it the evolutionists asking "Are you a man, or a mouse?--Cuz y'know we're "really" just brothers from different mothers, that's all *shrug*" hehehe yeah right] They detect the presence and intensity of light. The discovery could lead to treatments of some sleep and mood disorders: ... more -
Genes that conquered cold now make us fat!
New research suggests the genes that contribute to obesity and metabolic disorders today are the ones that may have helped our ancestors survive cold climates. New research suggests the genes that contribute to obesity and metabolic disorders today are the ones that may have helped our ancesto... more
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People trying to sell their DNA for $5,000 - humor blog admits it built the site a...
Evidently the whole "Sell Your DNA" thing was just a hoax. CandySmokes.com today put up a post declaring that they built the site as a satire to amuse and educate. Tell that to the hundreds of people who thought they were going to get at least $5,000 for selling their DNA. Evidently the whole "Sell Your DNA" thing was just a hoax. CandySmokes.com today put up a post declaring that they built the... more
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Man Lives Normal Life With Egg Sized Brain
French doctors are puzzling over the case of 44-year-old civil servant who has led a quite normal life but with an extraordinarily tiny brain. French doctors are puzzling over the case of 44-year-old civil servant who has led a quite normal life but with an extraordinarily t... more
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Human Parts Made to Order
Things in Dr. Anthony Atala's lab at Wake Forest University are not always what they seem. On one lab bench, surrounded by gutted printer cartridges, lie the inner workings of an inkjet printer. But this isn't the scene of some document-printing job gone awry. Instead, the printer has been jury-rigged to handle something much more extraordinary than ink it now sprays tiny living cells into the three-dimensional forms of human organs. Things in Dr. Anthony Atala's lab at Wake Forest University are not always what they seem. On one lab bench, surrounded by gutted... more
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Twins: Identical, Mirror Images, Fraternal and Chimeras
Cloning is not a human invention; nature has been creating clones for millions of years, among all organisms including humans. Natures clones, identical twins, are born in approximately 1 / 1000 births. Identical twins come in two varieties: identical and mirror images. Both share 100% of their DNA and but in mirror image twins, small differences are reflected. Examples include skin variations such moles, dental patterns, hairlines and handedness.
.... Cloning is not a human invention; nature has been creating clones for millions of years, among all organisms including humans. Nature... more
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