Resurrected virus shows how 1918 flu strain committed mass murder

In an experiment never seen before in medicine, US researchers went to Alaska to recover tissue samples from a woman victim of Spanish flu whose body had been preserved in permafrost. Teasing out fragments of the virus, they painstakingly recreated the H1N1′s eight genes. They brought back to life a killer last seen more than three generations ago.

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Doctors Have Performed First Zero Gravity Surgery

French doctors carried out the world’s first ever operation on a human in zero gravity today, using a specially adapted aircraft to simulate conditions in space.
During a 3-hour flight from Bordeaux in southwest France, the team of surgeons and anaesthetists successfully removed a benign tumour from the forearm of a 46-year-old volunteer.

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Poland Saved Thousand, by Fooling Nazis With Bacteria

Polish doctors during World War 2 fooled Nazis into thinking that there were Typhus outbreaks, by using a harmless bacteria that gave false positives. The Nazis feared that they would contract the disease, and left the area.

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Space plane in test run for zerogravity surgery

Harnessed to the walls, their surgical tools moored down with magnets, a team of French doctors are Wednesday to attempt the world’s first human operation in zero-gravity, as a test run for performing surgery in space.

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Grow Your Own Limbs

In response to the hundreds of soldiers coming home from war with missing arms or legs, Darpa is spending millions of dollars to help scientists learn how people might one day regenerate their own limbs.

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Trouble waking up in the morning? Blame genetics.

“Being a morning lark or a night owl is something encoded in people’s genes and we here made substantial progress to uncover the molecular basis for that,” explains Dr. Kramer.

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Damn Interesting: The Seventh Sense

From childhood, we are taught that the human body has five senses: sight, hearing, touch, taste, and smell. However, ask a neurologist how many senses the human body has, and you might get a surprising answer.

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Eye Floaters and Spots in your vision. What are they?

You may sometimes see small specks or clouds moving in your field of vision. They are called floaters. You can often see them when looking at a plain background, like a blank wall or blue sky. Floaters are actually tiny clumps of gel or cells inside the vitreous, the clear jelly-like fluid that fills the inside of your eye.

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Rock Music Boosts Your Brain Power

Scientists claim that listening to rock music can boost your brain power. Researchers at a Scottish university believe that contrary to received wisdom, children who listen to loud rock or pop music while studying for exams are probably improving their chances of success.

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