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Artificial WHAT!!!! Circumcised? Need a foreskin? Have no fear, Viafin’s synthetic turtleneck’s got you covered. Being circumcised affects the natural operation, appearance and sensitivity of the penis. During recent years much medical research has been carried out in several countries into the function and purpose of the foreskin. There is now conclusive medical evidence that [...]
The Register (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
'Absolutely amazing footage' from the hadal depths An international team of marine scientists has obtained "absolutely amazing footage" of fish feeding at a hadal 7,700 metres down in the Pacific Ocean's Japan Trench.…
British Journal of Pharmacology (Free subscription) | yesterday
Genetic technology used to comb mother's blood for fetal DNA.
British Journal of Pharmacology (Free subscription) | yesterday
Complete Genomics is about to release fast, cheap sequencing into a competitive market.
British Journal of Pharmacology (Free subscription) | yesterday
Work on HIV and human papilloma virus already offers health benefits.
Later On (Free subscription) | yesterday
Bad job: Medical research conflicts of interest are in the news lately, thanks to recent congressional hearings by Senator Charles Grassley. But are journalists part of the problem? A new study in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) found that reporters for print and online media outlets failed 42 percent of the time to [...]
jillstanek.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
by JivinJ The Los Angeles Times is featuring an article on how some families who want to give their embryonic children for medical research are facing obstacles. The article includes a rather sad quote from the embryos' parents: "I thought of them as potential life, but I don't think of them as children," says Chris Bailey . "They are definitely more than sperm and egg." After much discussion, the...
British Journal of Pharmacology (Free subscription) | yesterday
Increasing pollutant levels could cause major food crisis, says Royal Society.
The Register (Free subscription) | yesterday
mp3 charger name forecast: iSingTheBodyElectric™ US scientists believe it could be possible to use artificial electric eel cells grafted into the human body to generate power for cybernetic implant devices. The pseudo-electrocytes would harvest the necessary energy from body fats and sugars.…
The Register (Free subscription) | yesterday
The takeaways from rogue Chinese food additives As melamine alerts reverberate around the world in the wake of China's dairy export industry, it affords us an opportunity to look at bad chemistry while considering the scale of the global food market. And how vulnerable consumers are when garden-variety greed, not terrorism, is the driver in mass poisonings.…
PharmaGossip (Free subscription) | yesterday
Medical research conflicts of interest are in the news lately , thanks to recent congressional hearings by Senator Charles Grassley . But are journalists part of the problem? A new study in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) found that reporters for print and online media outlets failed 42 percent of the time to mention drug company funding of research cited in their stories. When...
British Journal of Pharmacology (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
High-security labs to get a multi-million pound revamp.
Biosingularity (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
Thought processes made visible: An international team of scientists headed by Mazahir Hasan of the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research in Heidelberg has succeeded in optically detecting individual action potentials in the brains of living animals. The scientists introduced fluorescent indicator proteins into the brain cells of mice via viral gene vectors: the illumination of [...]
The Register (Free subscription) | 02/10/2008
'Deep Bleeder' sonar medicuff deal inked US researchers intend to develop an automated ultrasonic cuff which could be fitted to the arms or legs of wounded troops to stop blood loss and so save the limb - or indeed the whole soldier.…
British Journal of Pharmacology (Free subscription) | 01/10/2008
48-year-old lymph node biopsy reveals the history of the deadly virus.
