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Extracts - Science and the Corporate Agenda

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.

Traditional medicine can help with swine flu: healer

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.

IBS, Scampi Fries and maggots - weird phobias, addictions and illnesses that hypnosis has cured

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.

Antibiotic Compounds Developed That Bacteria Cannot Resist

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.

Canadians make stem cell breakthrough

This discovery is going to be widely used," Rudnicki believes. "I think it will prove to be the routine method used internationally."

Psychoactive compound activates mysterious receptor

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.

Support America, not Limbaugh

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.

Electricity from straw

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.

Implant raises cellular army to attack cancer

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.

Chia Seeds: The Ancient Wisdom of the Aztecs

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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