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POPS'Scar Eating' Enzyme Aids Spine Repair
Other teams have shown that delivering an enzyme from bacteria that digests scar tissue may help. "The problem has been this enzyme is really sensitive and degrades very fast," says Bellamkonda. He says the enzyme, chondroitinase ABC (chABC), is heat sensitive and must be repeatedly injected or infused into the body to work. Hollow straws Bellamkonda's team found a way to overcome both of those issues. They mixed the enzyme with a sugar called trehalose that made it stable at internal body temperature. And instead of injecting the enzyme into the spinal cord, they put it into tiny hollow straws just twice the length of a single cell. They inject these at the injury site in a special gel that keeps the straws in place. Bellamkonda's team tested the system in rats and found the enzyme prevented scar tissue formation for up to six weeks. "The goal is that at the time the surgeon is removing the offending (vertebrae) bone after the injury you would inject this gel to si
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POPSFamed pastor says there's a cure for Parkinson's "This is giving people false hope," said Bob Kendall, 48, who was diagnosed seven years ago. "To me this is really sad. If there was a breakthrough and a cure, it wouldn't be a televangelist announcing it, believe me. There are a lot of people up in arms."
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POPSConvert The UN Building Into NYC Homeless Shelter wallowing in desperate poverty, with crime so rampant and violent that the police won’t even venture into them. And you have the nerve to come here and investigate us ? The United Nations has become nothing less than a shabby podium used by corrupt third-world demagogues to do what they could never do in any other way - attempt to destroy and bring into disrepute the United States. We’re being nibbled to death by ducks. And we’re letting it happen. Not only that, we’re paying for it. I’d like to see the Obama Administration tell the U.N. to pound sand (but they won’t). Take your investigation to somewhere that needs it, and that list is endless. North Korea, Darfur, Tibet, Cuba….I could go on almost ad infinitum about third world hell holes where people have no rights whatsoever, where food is something that may or may not come your way today - or tomorrow. Where “housing” consists of whatever you can scrape together to try to keep out the cold, where women . .
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POPSOdds Favor Drunk Trauma Victims A study in the journal American Surgeon finds that trauma victims who were inebriated at the time of their injury have higher survival rates than their sober counterparts.
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POPSACORN CEO: ‘Attacks Racially Motivated’ Last night on the ABC World News with Charles Gibson, CEO Lewis reiterated her indefensible remark from the press release and when asked about conservative and Republican attacks on her organization she told Jake Tapper "I think, you know, basically they’re saying, these people shouldn’t be trusted. How could they be trusted, you know, they’re all black and brown people?" All black and and brown people? Lewis must have missed the video from the San Berardino, Calif office where the workers were white. Unfortunately for the Democrats and Obama this story is far from over. See big government.com>>> http://biggovernment.com/
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POPSWTF!!! Raw Video: Tea Party at D.C. Pay Attention to the Large White Sign Transcription: Obama We have waken up to your evil plans to destroy our country take your racist un-American ACORN groups and arrogent wife back to your own country and strip their rights away!! Fear of a black man - that's what this bullshit is about. And the organizers have the nerve to call this gathering of throwbacks, March on Washington. Hah.
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POPSHealth Insurance Industry Profit Margins Profit mongering, greedy, healthcare plans on average make a whopping 3.3% profit margin!!! Geez, the nerve of those guys! Lefty Challenge: Sarcasm aside, if 3.3% is just too high, what do you think their profit margin should be?
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POPSTweeting our brain cells away Though i'm no scientist - and i'd certainly word it a bit differently - i share these sentiments about twitter. To be clear, I think there are many positive aspects of twitter too, but this is certainly one of my criticisms/concerns. I recommend reading the rest of this article...it's thought provoking and insightful about how different sources of entertainment and communication affect us (Twitter, Facebook, video games, etc.)
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POPSMarine Corps Veteran at Townhall: "If You're Looking for a Swastika, Look On Your Own Arm" -- should be required viewing AWESOME!!!!!--- "I, David William Hedrick, a member of the silent majority, decided that I was not going to be silent anymore. So, I let U.S. Congressman Brian Baird have it. I was one questioner out of 38, that was called at random from an audience that started at 3,000 earlier in the evening. Not expecting to be called on, I quickly scratched what I wanted to say on a borrowed piece of paper and with a pen that I borrowed from someone else in the audience minutes before I spoke. So much for the planned talking points of the right wing conspiracy." Hear, hear! For the record, Washington's Columbian reported on August 6: Over 10 years in Congress, U.S. Rep. Brian Baird has stayed tethered to his district, flying back to Southwest Washington for more than 300 sometimes-bruising town hall meetings during Congressional recesses. But this year, he's literally decided to phone it in.
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