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POPSEnd the Use of Live Pigs for Training at Baystate Medical Center The study Dying to Learn: Exposing the Supply of Dogs and Cats to Higher Education also found that both medical and veterinary students can learn just as well through alternative teaching methods that can include hands on training at shelters for vet students and simulators for medical students. Dying to Learn site: http://www.dyingtolearn.org/cruella.html
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POPSOsteoporosis Drugs Kill Swine Flu Virus Professor Lau Yu-lung at the University of Hong Kong's pediatrics and adolescent medicine department described the infected human cells as "factories that will produce viruses." "These drugs attack the viruses specifically ... This approach kills the factories that are producing viruses." Malik Peiris, also part of the research team, said the drugs could enhance immune responses of the human body. That was especially important as flu viruses mutate constantly, which reduces the efficacy of vaccines, he added. The researchers plan to move next into animal and then human clinical testing.
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POPSHypnotic Trances: science confirms benefits According to a new study of the neural mechanisms of hypnosis-induced paralysis, Braid's definition was remarkably accurate. The study, published in the journal Neuron, demonstrates that hypnosis does indeed lead to increased activity in areas of the brain involved in attention, as well as in other areas involved in mental imagery and self-awareness. Hypnosis can therefore exert control over bodily movements by enhancing mental representations of the self (or self-imagery) and focusing attention on them. Read on »
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POPSPETA being pathetic
So PETA has released an official statement condemning Obama swatting a fly on the air. How pathetic can you get. There is no shortage of flies in the world. Even if everyone who saw that interview was inspired to go out and kill 100 flies, it still wouldn't have any significant impact on the fly population. But I suppose PETA as a pathetic joke is better than their usual role as terrorists. PETA has murdered people, just because they have used animals in research. The use of animal testing has saved countless lives, and significantly improved our quality of life. Do stop it would mean that we would have to turn to human testing, which is much more unethical than using animals. Despite what PETA tries to tell you, the vast majority of places that use animals for medical experimentation treat them ethically. PETA is spending money on nonsense, wasting funds that could be better spent on saving human lives. The next time you have money to give to charity, if you're thinking of g
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POPSA hummingbird in love moves faster than a fighter jet
Anna's hummingbirds are the main species we see here in the Bay Area. Gorgeous little beasts. More: Why does Anna's hummingbird nosedive? Diving from a great height like a fighter jet and then pulling out just at the right moment is hardly a safe activity, so why does Anna's hummingbird do it? A clue is that only the males do it, and then as a way of attracting females. Charles Darwin was the first to seriously study the acquisition of sexually selected traits that appeared to serve no useful purpose other than to attract mates. It usually means that the male of a species is burdened with a handicap of some sort, such as the peacock's lethally long tail, or a death-defying behaviour, like Anna's hummingbird. One idea is that the lethal nature of a sexually selected trait is a way of testing the "fitness" of the male, or more specifically his genes. Only a supremely fit and parasite-free male hummingbird could possible perform his dance of death and live to tell the tale.
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POPSGallop Poll Says Americans Support Wearing Fur and Animal Testing Tell me please how can anyone who doesn't give a damn about animals suffering care about people being tortured? Isn't it about time we just accepted here in Europe that US citizens need a few hundred years more of evolution to see things the way people who really care see things :mad:
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POPSReplay During Sleep Consolidates Memories (Cont) During sleep, the hippocampus, a brain region important in learning and memory, repeatedly “replays” brain activity from recent awake experiences. This replay process is believed to be important for memory consolidation. In the new study at the University of Arizona they found reduced replay activity during sleep in old compared to young rats, and rats with the least replay activity performed the worst in tests of spatial memory.
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POPSAnimal rights activist on FBI's 'Most Wanted Terrorists' list Well, I guess not many will agree with me on this one but I think this is ridiculous. I am anti-violence, but a part of me has much respect for these humans in their great devotion and sacrifices for earth's other dwellers. Animals are slaughtered daily for food or simply because there are too many of them on properties the money-lusters want to exploit. We show so little respect for human life today, why not make a political statement by "destruction of property"? Not that it seems to do any good in this world but I would like to think that trying to save animals lives would earn some good karma. Now go ahead and blast me.
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POPSPossible New Cancer treatment This is a 2004 article. Anybody out there got an update? Gold/glass nano particles cling to tumors and are remotely heated and therefore kill cancer cells.
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POPSBreast Cancer Cells Recycle To Escape Death By Hormonal Therapy "She'll now look for ways to block macroautophagy in an animal model, including using chloroquine, a drug used to treat malaria. "We know patients can take it with few side effects," she says. If it works in animals, the drug, in combination with an antiestrogen, could move relatively quickly into human testing."
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POPSCourt: US can force beef packers NOT to test Large packers alarmed that small packers wanted to compete by testing every animal for mad cow disease. Got their Repub buddies to pass law prohibiting more than spot testing. Now who is it that this law protects?
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POPSGenetics Show How Prehistoric Cultures Migrated & Shared Knowledge The researchers tracked genetic variation on the Y chromosome, the sex chromosome passed from father to son that encodes maleness, using a technique now widely used that was developed in the early 1990s by Underhill and colleagues in the lab of Luigi Cavalli-Sforza, professor emeritus of genetics. The method has given scientists a powerful window into ancient human migrations and prehistoric cultural shifts. The technique has also been adopted by some commercial genealogy services that offer Y-chromosome testing to the public.
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