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Environment Matters As Much As Genes for Kids Who Develop Autism Spectrum Disorders

A new study found that environmental and genetic factors were equally important in assessing kids’ risk of developing an autism spectrum disorder

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Scientists Transformed Men’s Skin Cells Into Immature Sperm Cells

When inserted in mice testes, men’s skin cells were coaxed into becoming immature sperm cells

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Here’s Why There Will Probably Never Be a Hangover Prevention Pill

If it was easily doable, someone would have invented it already

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Lone Bacteria Are More Likely to Become Drug Resistant Than Big Colonies

This finding could help design ways to prevent antibiotic resistance

A cluster of variola viruses viewed under an electron microscope. Strains of the variola virus cause smallpox disease.

Should We Destroy Our Last Living Samples of the Virus That Causes Smallpox?

Later this month, the World Health Organization will decide whether or not to get rid of two live virus repositories in the United States and Russia

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Mosquitoes Kill More Humans Than Human Murderers Do

From a human perspective, this makes them the deadliest animal in the world by far

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Engineers Are Constructing a Giant Steel Lid to Contain Chernobyl’s Radioactive Core

The arch-shaped lid will protect against radioactive dust should Chernobyl’s decaying facilities collapse

Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center will soon replace the blood of trauma patients with cold saline solution to slow down the cell's metabolism to where there's no signs of brain activity, nor pulse.

This Radical Treatment Pushes Victims to the Brink of Death in Order to Save Their Lives

Researchers are putting trauma patients in a state between life and death with a technique known in movies as “suspended animation”

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Long-Haul Space Flights Might Damage Astronauts’ Brains

This warning is based on a study involving rats, but researchers think it could apply to humans as well

Ozcan (in his UCLA lab) started a company, Holomic, to market microscope-outfitted smartphones, which he calls “a telemedicine tool” for improving health care in the developing world.

Inside the Technology That Can Turn Your Smartphone into a Personal Doctor

The fantastic tricorder device that “Bones” used to scan aliens on “Star Trek” is nearly at hand—in your cellphone

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Sound Experts Want to Record One Full Day of Human Noise From All Over the Earth

The project could help scientists better understand the human soundscape and quantify how it changes over time

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Less Than a Fourth of Jet-Wheel Stowaways Survive—And That’s a Generous Estimate

One teen recently survived a jet wheel ride from California to Hawaii

Skeletal remains being dug up at La Isabela, the first European settlement in the New World, founded by Christopher Columbus is 1493.

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Scurvy Plagued Columbus’ Crew, Even After the Sailors Left the Sea

Severe scurvy and malnutrition set the stage for the fall of La Isabela

Schools Ban Chocolate Milk; Kids Just Stop Drinking Milk Altogether

Kids wind up consuming less protein and wasting more milk when skim is all that’s on the shelves

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Real-Life True Blood Might Be Used in Trial Transfusions by 2016

Researchers in the U.K. have created the first man-made red blood cells of high enough quality to be introduced into the human body

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Pot Smokers’ Brains Are Different

But we can’t say for sure whether it’s pot that made them that way

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A Fully Vaccinated Woman Contracted And Then Spread the Measles

This is the first time health officials have encountered a Typhoid Mary-like situation for measles

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Mid-Day Naps Can Be a Sign of Bad Health

People who frequently take naps tend to die younger than those who don’t, according to a new study

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In Need of a New Nostril? Scientists Can Grow One From Your Cartilage

Researchers in Switzerland just performed the first reconstructive nasal surgery using lab-grown cartilage

An asylum in Jacksonville, Illinois, c. 1890-1901.

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In the U.S., Mentally Ill People Are Ten Times More Likely To Be in Prison Than in a Hospital

The number of mentally ill people in prison is going up, and the number in hospitals is going down

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