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Diabetes: When Blood Glucose Control Fails

Editor’s note: Physicians have a special place among the thinkers who have elaborated the argument for intelligent design. Perhaps that’s because, than evolutionary biologists, they are familiar with...

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Scientists Cure Blindness with Adult Stem Cells

If this breakthrough had occurred with embryonic stem cells, front-page stories would have screamed around the world. But it was adult stem cells and so the reporting is muted. You see, after all these...

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Study: Cut the Carbs, Breathe Easier

Want to reduce your chance of getting lung cancer? Perhaps you should put down that bagel. New Research from the University of Texas found that people who had diets high in carbohydrates could raise...

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Costa Rica News: Baby Sloth Depends on Stuffed Animal for Emotional Support

In order to avert its overdependence on humans and give it a better chance of survival once it is released in its natural habitat, an orphaned baby sloth is given stuffed animal by the Sloth Sanctuary...

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Artificial pancreas for diabetics

  For people with type 1 diabetes, life is a perpetual tightrope act. They must carefully monitor the dosage and timing of insulin injections that allow them to teeter on the high wire that is optimum...

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Science Cannot Defend Moral Relativism

If morality evolves, then why do some scientists cast judgment? Science reporters occasionally make the case for moral relativism: the idea that moral judgments can vary from culture to culture,...

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The Dead Donor Rule: Live Organ Harvesting

For years, I have documented the growing calls within bioethics and organ transplant medicine to kill the “dead donor” rule to allow live organ harvesting. Over at First Things, I note that euthanasia...

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Pioneering Neuroscientist Wilder Penfield: Why Don’t We Have Intellectual...

Wilder Penfield was a pivotal figure in modern neurosurgery. He was an American-born neurosurgeon at the Montreal Neurological Institute who pioneered surgery for epilepsy. He was an accomplished...

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DNA-modified salmonella helps stop cancer

In a major breakthrough, scientists at Hong Kong University have succeeded in creating DNA-modified salmonella bacteria that could help in treating cancer cells, without damaging the healthy cells....

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Erasing the Truth About Planned Parenthood

To the Source asked me to give my impressions of the Planned Parenthood “fetal parts for sale” imbroglio. I was happy to oblige. Sadly, I am not surprised that the scandal — and that’s what it is — has...

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Using David Bowie to Promote Assisted Suicide

From all accounts that I have read, David Bowie died naturally of cancer. But writer Ann Neumann in The Guardian strives mightily to tie his demise to assisted suicide. From “David Bowie Planned His...

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MS Patients In UK Get Better With Adult Stem Cells

The U.K. press are reporting heartening results for the use of adult stem cells to treat relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis (MS), including descriptions of “remarkable” improvements and...

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Is Junk DNA preventing Breast Cancer?

Each time a function is found for a piece of non-coding DNA, the “junk DNA” myth gets more mythological. Here’s a function that has been revealed for a certain long, non-coding transcript of DNA into...

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Mother’s Milk Could Save a Million Lives

Who wouldn’t want to encourage a simple practice that can save almost a million lives and over 300 billion dollars per year in health costs?1 According to an article in medical journal The Lancet,...

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Chocolate makes you smarter, study suggests

It’s good for your heart, reduces the risk of strokes and even helps protect your skin from the sun. Now, another apparent benefit has been added to the list of chocolate’s nutritional qualities: it...

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Fetal Stem Cells — Studying Media Hype

This is a warning about investor trawling, media hype, and the realities attendant to regenerative medicine. Whenever a stem cell company, particularly one dealing with controversial tissues such as...

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‘World’s saddest orangutan’ kept in chains for years enjoys new life

An orangutan described as the ‘saddest in the world’ after being kept in chains for four years has been successfully rehabilitated. Bujing was rescued after being chained to the side of a house in the...

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Bats Used to Fight Zika Virus

NORTH HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. — As mosquito season heats up, bringing with it the threat of the West Nile and Zika viruses, one Long Islandtown is taking an unorthodox approach: bats. The town, North...

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Bacteria You Can Love

Wrongly feared as agents of disease, many bacteria are allies in our quest for health. Here are two examples of bacteria we can celebrate as friends. Look at the good they can do for us! Water and...

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Cancer breakthrough: Scientists develop ‘smoke detector’ test that can spot...

A simple blood test that can detect cancer before any symptoms are noticeable has been developed by researchers in a breakthrough that could save thousands of lives. The scientists, who unveiled the...

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What Does Human Flesh Taste Like? This Guy Got A Biopsy, Cooked It And You...

Greg Foot, a BBC science presenter, wanted to know what human meat tastes like. He filmed himself while having a biopsy taken from his own thigh. In his YouTube show, BritLab’s “Secrets of Everything,”...

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Vitamins A and C help erase cell memory

Vitamins A and C aren’t just good for your health, they affect your DNA too. Researchers at the Babraham Institute and their international collaborators have discovered how vitamins A and C act to...

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Gut bacteria can aid recovery from spinal cord injury, study suggests

Researchers from The Ohio State University have discovered that spinal cord injury alters the type of bacteria living in the gut and that these changes can exacerbate the extent of neurological damage...

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Many Disease Genes are Sheep in Wolves’ Clothing

Everyone has heard about genetic mutations causing serious disease. Finding one in your genome was like getting a death sentence. Recently, however, geneticists have been surprised that many people...

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