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Primate Cloning

June 23, 2003

Humans and other primates cannot be cloned using current techniques.

June 20, 2003

Fish can feel hooks; chickens can regenerate hearing hair cells; adding the neurotransmitter GABA to …

June 19, 2003

June 18, 2003

Drug cravings are triggered by dopamine released in the brain --- similar to the high users get from …

June 17, 2003

How far away can scientists see into the universe? (about 13 billion light years away)

June 16, 2003

Redheaded women have a gene that helps some analgesics work better, and men and women process pain …

June 13, 2003

Biodiversity better for human health; SARS came from people who ate civet cats; eating bats causes …

June 12, 2003

June 11, 2003

Some olfactory genes in humans don't work -- meaning we've lost some of our ability to smell

June 10, 2003

What exactly is petrified wood? (it's a fossilized tree [or part of one] -- where the wood has been …

June 9, 2003

The American Coot can count its eggs by sight

June 6, 2003

Failure to raise enough funds to fight malaria, and a bioengineered virus for treating brain cancer.