Biotech related extracts from the recent in-depth report about the power of commercial interests within science and technology: Science and the Corporate Agenda, by Stuart Parkinson and Chris Langley of Scientists for Global Responsibility.
Conventional medicine is not enough to deal with the global swine flu pandemic, says a Dene healer who urged the medical community to pay more attention to traditional medicine.
A British woman has lost four stone after being hypnotised into thinking she had a gastric-band fitted. Hypnotism is clearly powerful stuff as this woman's weight-loss campaign and the following tales prove.
The increasing frequency of bacterial resistance to antibiotics is alarming. Researchers from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University believe they may have found a solution to this seemingly losing battle. Professor Vern L.
This discovery is going to be widely used," Rudnicki believes. "I think it will prove to be the routine method used internationally."
A hallucinogenic compound found in a plant indigenous to South America and used in shamanic rituals regulates a mysterious protein that is abundant throughout the body, University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers have discovered.
Rush Limbaugh's following of "ditto heads" are now angry enough that they have begun repeating his anti-American comments in saying that he hopes President Barack Obama fails.
Researchers have developed the first-ever biogas plant to run purely on waste instead of edible raw materials -- transforming waste into valuable material. The plant generates 30 percent more biogas than its predecessors. A fuel cell efficiently converts the gas into electricity.
Implants that sit in the body and reprogram a person's immune cells could be used to treat a range of infectious diseases and even cancer. In a trial on mice with an aggressive melanoma that usually kills within 25 days, the new treatment saved 90% of the group.
Recently I have been putting chia seeds into everything. I have always been into flax and hemp, but I find chia seeds so much more versatile and easy to use.
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