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• Welcome to the Clone Farm

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 163
  ENID, Oklahoma (Reuters) - To the untrained eye, Pollard Farms looks much like any other cattle ranch. Similar looking cows are huddled in similar looking pens. But some of the cattle here dont just resemble each other. They are literally identical -- clear down to their genes. Of the 400-some cattle in Barry Pollards ...
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• Many Roads to Physical Fitness

  
  Drop Fat! — Authority: 145
  Learn Fencing - Ancient Art and Modern Sport It’s easy to look around at the experiences of your friends or listen to the discouraging stories in the news and think losing weight is nearly impossible.  It is true that the real challenge in weight loss is keeping it off, and that long term weight loss can be ...
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• Scientists zero in on one key for living to 100

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 706
  Washington, Nov 14 (ANI): In a breakthrough study, scientists have found an apparent key to living till 100 years- an inherited cellular repair mechanism that thwarts aging and perhaps helps prevent disease.Researches at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine at Yeshiva University have said that the finding could ...
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• What is Hair Loss?

  
  Hair Now Hair Forever: Hair Transplant Blog — Authority: 116
  Everyone sheds some hair every day. How much is normal? The average is about 100 hairs per day. These hairs grow back. Some people lose more than 100 hairs each day, and these hairs do not grow back. This is called “hair loss.” Some hair loss occurs as people age. This is normal. Most hair loss is due to ...
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• Are antidepressants just a crutch?

  
  Blogs — Authority: 160
  Recently I evaluated a new patient, a young woman who wondered whether medication might ease her depression. She was in therapy elsewhere, and although seeing me was her idea, she was apprehensive about adding an antidepressant. I did end up recommending one, at which point she asked: "Arent antidepressants just a ...
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• I found this site ...

  
  gweipo ?? — Authority: 128
  I sometimes get the weirdest emails and comments. Like this one: I came across your site the other day & I am very impressed by it. So I decided to contact you. We are from xxx company , specializing in DNA & Genetic Test for children. The genetic test helps parent to identify his/her child inborn ...
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• Science Explained: RNA Interference

  
  Curious Cat Science and Engineering Blog — Authority: 418
  Explained: RNA interference Every high school biology student learns the basics of how genes are expressed: DNA, the cell’s master information keeper, is copied into messenger RNA, which carries protein-building instructions to the ribosome, the part of the cell where proteins are assembled. But it turns out the ...
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• Disney Faces

  
  So, the thing is...blog — Authority: 117
  (As always, click to embiggen.) My Tiger lover watching the tigers at Disneys Animal Kingdom... and in front of Mt. Everest. (Why, yes, we did climb Mt. Everest and go on a jungle safari all in one day. And also? There was face painting.) And we went on rides and ate all kinds of sweets ...
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• Video: A love of pop and classical music is partly in our genes

  
  Nokia Conversations - Posts — Authority: 688
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• Novel way to disarm cancer protein identified

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 706
  Washington, Nov 13 (ANI): Scientists at US Dana-Farber Cancer Institute have discovered a novel way to disarm a protein thought to play a key role in leukaemia and other cancers.The protein in question, called Notch, is often found to be damaged or mutated in patients with a form of blood cancer known as T-cell acute ...
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• BulletProof: Interview with ACLU Attorney Chris Hansen over Gene Patents

  
  Patent Baristas — Authority: 488
  Association for Molecular Pathology, et al. v. U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, et al . , a suit by the American Civil Liberties Union and joined by the Public Patent Foundation , challenges the patentability of gene patents on two human genes associated with breast and ovarian cancer.  Along with claims that the ...
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• Another Cause of Obesity: The Bacteria in Your Gut? (Time.com)

  
  Blogger — Authority: 165
  Time.com – Diet, exercise and genes aren’t the only factors responsible for body weight, say researchers, who are discovering evidence of another component: the bacteria in your gut More here:  (Time.com)"> (Time.com)">Another Cause of Obesity: The Bacteria in Your Gut? (Time.com)
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• The Mercola "Facts" redux. Now with inferences and links updates!

  
  A life less ordinary? — Authority: 124
  1. "Fact": Multidose vials of seasonal and injectable H1N1 swine flu vaccines contain MERCURY (all caps theirs), which is a "known neurotoxin." Inference: Getting a flu shot will poison your brain. Observations: The actual compound of the preservative in question is called thimerosal. It consists in part ...
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• How far is too far? - Animals with human genes debate begins

  
  Command the Raven — Authority: 149
  From ReutersA mouse that can speak? A monkey with Down’s Syndrome? Dogs with human hands or feet? British scientists want to know if such experiments are acceptable, or if they go too far in the name of medical research.To find out, Britain’s Academy of Medical Sciences launched a study Tuesday to look at the use ...
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• How far is too far? - Animals with human genes debate begins

  
  Jesus Lives! — Authority: 446
  From Reuters A mouse that can speak? A monkey with Down’s Syndrome? Dogs with human hands or feet? British scientists want to know if such experiments are acceptable, or if they go too far in the name of medical research. To find out, Britain’s Academy of Medical Sciences launched a study Tuesday to look at ...
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• Faulty body clock genes could cause bipolar disorder in kids

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 706
  Washington, Nov 12 (ANI): Genes behind malfunctioning circadian clock could be responsible for bipolar disorder in children, according to a study.In a collaborative study, researchers found four versions of the regulatory gene RORB that were associated with paediatric bipolar disorder.Alexander Niculescu from Indiana ...
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• Another Cause of Obesity: The Bacteria in Your Gut?

  
  Health Fitness & Beauty - health-fitness.marc8.com — Authority: 158
  Diet, exercise and genes arent the only factors responsible for body weight, say researchers, who are discovering evidence of another component: the bacteria in your gut
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• Why Cant Chimps Talk?

  
  Discovery News - Technology — Authority: 735
  A genetic mutation may explain why our closest relatives, chimpanzees, dont speak.
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• How Risky is Smoking? Your Genes May Tell.

  
  John Goodman's Health Policy Blog — Authority: 565
  This is from The New York Times : The Respiragene test looks at 20 spots in a person’s genome where DNA varies among people. It uses that data, as well as nongenetic information like the person’s smoking history, to compute a risk score… The average smoker has a lifetime risk of lung cancer of about 10 ...
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• Googles Guinea Pigs

  
  MoJo Articles — Authority: 711
  There must be something wrong with me. After receiving notice from 23andMe that my personal genetic profile was complete, I waited three months to go online and check out the results. Im clearly out of step with the rest of humanity, which, judging from the explosive growth of direct-to-consumer genetic testing, is ...
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