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Getting Around: Fuel Efficiency of Various Modes of Transportation

(from GOOD Magazine.)

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February is Medical Science Breakthrough Month?

PARIS (AFP) – French specialists on Sunday unveiled a new weapon against cancer -- a molecular "decoy" that mimicks DNA damage and prompts cancerous cells to kill themselves.

The research, published in a US journal, Clinical Cancer Research, opens up fresh avenues for attacking tumours that are resistant to conventional therapy, they said.

"Decoy molecules drive cancer cells to suicide: study"

feb 11: Man appears free of HIV after stem cell transplant

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To perform a stem cell transplant, doctors intentionally destroy a patient's immune system, leaving the patient vulnerable to infection...

"The patient is fine," said Dr. Gero Hutter of Charite Universitatsmedizin Berlin in Germany. "Today, two years after his transplantation, he is still without any signs of HIV disease and without antiretroviral medication."


"Man appears free of HIV after stem cell transplant"

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"It wasn’t like I was into drugs or alcohol or anything," Tuft said softly. "I wanted to explore, and I was searching for so many things. I just never felt right anywhere. At that age, you don’t know anything about yourself, and I was trying to find out who I was."



Svein Tuft, a man far crazier than myself, inspires me by living a lifestyle I admire and understand -- to a degree. Recently, he has become part of one of the planet's top bicycle racing teams -- Full Story @ New York Times

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