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February 21, 2015
Camel Antibodies Guide Therapies To Tumors
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Lenar Musin / Shutterstock. Camel antibodies could guide us to cancer therapies
If you're lost in the desert, a camel could help you find an oasis. You might not expect the same assistance when on a search-and-destroy mission against cancer, but surprisingly, scientists are claiming camel antibodies might be just the guides we need.
We've learned a lot about destroying cancers in recent decades, but a huge problem remains: How do we target treatments so they destroy tumors while leaving healthy cells intact?
February 20, 2015
God Exists Because I Don’t Understand Science.
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Science Goes To the Movies: A New TV Program
Heather Berlin, assistant professor of psychiatry and of neuroscience at Mt. Sinai School of Medicine in New York City, is the co-host of the new CUNY TV program Science Goes to the Movies.
Animals Getting Bigger, and How Cannabis Causes Hunger
SciShow News delves into the history of marine animals and finds that they’re getting bigger, and unlocks the secret of how cannabis creates one of its most medically useful effects.
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An Inside Look at Jesus’ Marketing Team
In a brilliant promotional campaign for their own production company, Montreal-based 1ONE explains how they could help take the “miracles” of Jesus to a whole new level:
Who knew Jesus was just the David Blaine of his time?
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Experience the New Energy Crisis, Live Tonight
A growing number of the world’s people are being hit with drought, environmental disasters and rising food costs. What does that have to do with energy? Everything. Energy, water and food are the world’s three most critical resources, but their interdependence is significantly underappreciated. Strains on one can cripple the others. The challenges need to be solved in an integrated manner. Clean, affordable energy, for example, enables an abundance of clean water, which enables greater food production. And so on.
This interdependence makes our society more fragile than we imagine, and we are not prepared for the potential disaster that is waiting for us.
Michael Webber will present a fast-paced, myth-busting and optimistic look at how America and the world can solve this enormous issue. You can see Michael's presentation live, tonight, from 8:00 to 9:15 p.m. EST right here, in the window above. Michael is deputy director of the University of Texas at Austin Energy Institute, co-director of the school's Clean Energy Incubator, and a member of Scientific American's advisory board. And he is an entertaining speaker. Come join the event! Alternatively, go here to watch the broadcast.
How Vaccines Change The Way We Think About Disease
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Health marketing materials used to promote measles vaccine during the 1960s. CDC
The news on the current measles outbreak contains plenty of reminders that measles causes brain damage, pneumonia, hearing loss and death. A few lone voices have spoken up to say measles isn’t that serious, including an Arizona doctor who said it’s “really just a fever and a rash” – and soon found himself under investigation by his state’s medical board.
Beyond Genetics: Illuminating The Epigenome
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The Human Genome Project was just the beginning. The Epigenome Roadmap is now telling us how all these genes switch on and off in different parts of the body, and how they go wrong with disease. Tom Purcell/Flickr, CC BY-NC
If you are attracted to the more mysterious areas of science, such as quantum mechanics and cosmology, and your special interest is Lamarckian epigenetic inheritance, then you may be aware that Nature has just published articles summarising progress of the Roadmap Epigenomics Project towards prod
Jesus Has Been Weeping Bitter Tears Since the Election of an Atheist Prime Minister in Greece
A Jesus-on-the-cross icon in Greece seems to have been perspiring an as-yet-unidentified liquid for the last three weeks, something the country’s faithful are taking as a sign that God is distraught about the leftist government of Alexis Tsipras, the new prime minister, who is an atheist.
A religious icon of Jesus Christ in a small village in Greece has been “weeping” ever since the anti-austerity party Syriza won the Greek elections at the end of January, witnesses say.
According to Corinth TV and the Athens-Macedonian News Agency, the icon, which dates from early last century and is housed in the church of St. Nicholas in the village of Asprokampos, Corinthia, has been secreting an oily liquid since the left-wing party leader, Alexis Tsipras, stormed to power on January 26th.
Sea Creatures Will Get Bigger And Bigger (If We Don’t Eat Them First)
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When life on Earth began around 3.6 billion years ago, all organisms were small. Indeed, it took some 2.5 billion years to evolve any organism that grows larger than a single cell.
Since then, things have accelerated a bit and – along with the great diversification of body forms – animals have tended to get bigger. Indeed, the largest animal ever to live, the blue whale, is still very much with us, and has been swimming the world’s oceans for only a couple of million years – a mere blink of the eye in the long, long history of life in the sea.
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