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SpaceX Rocket Achieves Earth Orbit on First Flight

How Did Higher Life Evolve? Brown Algal Genome Opens New Door to Understanding Multicellularity and Photosynthesis

Gene Related to Aging Plays Role in Stem Cell Differentiation

Superbug's 'CPU' Revealed: Researchers Discover Chemical Clue Directing Staphylococcus Aureus

Rare Hybrid Cell Key to Regulating the Immune System

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Structure of Immune Molecule That Counteracts HIV Strains Determined

Scientists Create Artificial Mini 'Black Hole'

Jumping Genes Provide Extensive 'Raw Material' for Evolution, Study Finds

Breakthrough in Stem Cell Culturing

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Scientists Get Jumbo Size Surprise in Antarctic Ocean: A Shrimp!

Student Discovers Rare Fossil of Meat-Eating Amphibian

New HIV infections increasing among homosexuals

Baldness 'could be good for your health' say scientists

Babies Are Born to Dance, New Research Shows

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Dark Matter Detected for First Time? Dark matter may have been "felt" for the first time deep in a Minnesota mine, physicists say. Detectors in the mine, part of the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search experiment, were tripped recently by what might be weakly interacting massive particles, or WIMPs.

Undersea robot captures rare deep-sea eruption

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - With California teetering perpetually on the edge of financial ruin, marijuana activists have seized the moment, claiming that legalizing and taxing pot could help bail out the cash-strapped Golden State.

Human Protein Helps Prevent Infection by H1N1 Influenza and Other Viruses

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Spacewalkers complete Japan's laboratory complex

Lasting marriage linked to better health

Can Good Bacteria Really Fight the Flu?

Medical marijuana touted as cure for cities' budget woes

Man Receives His Own Stem Cells as a Treatment for Heart Failure

Not the first bioaugmented person I've heard of... in fact I've known one personally...

60 Second Science via Scientific American

Joule Biotechnologies announce new biofuel jargon, scant details- liquid energy!

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New research highlights new way to kill superbugs

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Surprise supernova: Massive star explodes despite being 'too immature' to self-destruct

The look of love? Only if you manage a glance that lasts longer than 8.2 seconds

Please freeze me! How scores of middle-class British couples are hoping to buy immortality for just £10 a week

-> this culture has for some reason always painted cryogenics as the dominant form of life extension, yet to me it has seemed both inefficient and unplausable in the life extension industry.

British scientists on course to become the first to produce synthetic human blood

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Outlook: AIDS in the District Is Serious, But Not Critical

Federal judge postpones medical marijuana sentencing

A new study by the Centers for Disease Control has come up with techniques to prevent the spread of antibiotic-resistant "super bugs" in hospitals.

Albert Einstein Medical Center in Philadelphia was one of six hospitals which took part in the study.

Discovery Shuttle fires thrusters to push Space Station out of the way of rocket debris

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Scientists have created a strain of the human
AIDS virus able to infect and multiply in monkeys in a step toward
testing future vaccines in monkeys before trying them in people,
according to a new study.

The flu continues to evolve too quickly to be treated with drugs

Rapid HIV evolution avoids attack

HIV is evolving rapidly to escape the human immune system, an
international study has shown.

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MONDAY, Dec. 15 (HealthDay News) -- A good night's sleep really does a sick body good, new research says.

Stanford University research with fruit flies reveals that the immune system fights invading bacteria the hardest at night and the least during the day. The findings were to be presented Sunday at the American Society for Cell Biology annual meeting, in San Francisco.

"These results suggest that immunity is stronger at night, consistent with the hypothesis that circadian proteins upregulate restorative functions such as specific immune responses during sleep, when animals are not engaged in metabolically costly activities," Stanford researcher Mimi Shirasu-Hiza said in a news release issued by the conference organizers.


-> I learned a while ago that sleeping is when the body repairs itself, and cleans out the immune system... I guess data always must be repeated to make it true...

idea

I'm naturally resistant to poison ivy! I'm not unique, 15-30% of people have no allergic response, although heavy exposure can change things. Which is cool, but I'm starting to wonder if I could use this convenient genetic mutation to grease my wallet. I need to come up with an idea that could actually lead to money. I'm under the federally defined poverty line; I have been under the federally defined for many years, which ironically means that I'm living in poverty in a first world nation.

The leaves secrete an oil called urushiol, which causes an allergic reaction, which means if immune, I either have something that "cancels it out" or the confirmation of my proteins are not receptive to the antigens. Anyways, I have to study what in my body is preventing the immune response. After I figure that out, I feel like it would be really easy to synthesize the respective chemical, x, in order to produce a drug that could prevent the response in people who are (heavily) allergic. Most likely, it would looks something like this:

1. take the drug for a week or two before (potential) exposure- build up the concentration in the body
2. perhaps take the drug for a week after?

I just need to figure out how to execute a complex series of chemical reactions, taking something out of my body, and making it bond to someone else's...