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Sound bullets could treat cancers and replace ultraso...
By Escape The Illusion on April 7, 2010 | No Comments
(PhysOrg.com) — Acoustic devices are used in a range of applications such as ultrasound scanners, but their performance is limited for some uses by their inaccurate focusing and low focal power. Now a group of scientists in the US have developed an acoustic lens that can focus acoustic waves w... -
New Method for Producing Proteins Critical to Medical...By Escape The Illusion on April 4, 2010 | No Comments
Scientists at the University of Delaware have developed a new method for producing proteins critical to research on cancer, Alzheimer’s, and other diseases. Developed by Zhihao Zhuang, UD assistant professor of chemistry and biochemistry, and his research group, the chemical method yields hund... -
Humans Could Regenerate Tissue Like Newts By Switchin...By Escape The Illusion on March 20, 2010 | 2 Comments
Scientists have long been stymied by human regenerative healing — that is, wholesale regrowth of, say, a severed limb — an ability inherent in some species but lost on humans. But new research suggests the ability to regenerate isn’t based on something newts and flatworms have that... -
WalMart Fires Associate Of Year, Cancer Patient For M...By Escape The Illusion on March 14, 2010 | No Comments
Despite medical marijuana being legal in Michigan, WalMart has fired a cancer patient and former employee of the year who tested positive for the drug, which was recommended by his doctor. “I was terminated because I failed a drug screening,” ex-WalMart employee Joseph Casias told WZZM-1... -
The Great Mistake: Prostate (PSA) Test ScamBy Escape The Illusion on March 14, 2010 | 3 Comments
EACH year some 30 million American men undergo testing for prostate-specific antigen, an enzyme made by the prostate. Approved by the Food and Drug Administration in 1994, the P.S.A. test is the most commonly used tool for detecting prostate cancer. The test’s popularity has led to a hugely ex... -
Hemp for Alternative Energy and MoreBy Escape The Illusion on March 3, 2010 | 2 Comments
Fuel: * Farming 6% of the continental U.S. acreage with biomass crops would provide all of America’s energy needs. 1 * Hemp is Earth’s number-one biomass resource; it is capable of producing 10 tons per acre in four months. 1 * Biomass can be converted to methane, methanol, o... -
Profiting From Immigration InjusticeBy Escape The Illusion on February 16, 2010 | 2 Comments
When an architect named Norman Pfeiffer designed the Evo DeConcini Federal Courthouse in Tucson, Ariz., he claimed to have been inspired by its natural surroundings. “From afar,” Pfeiffer told Architecture Week, “the desert tells little of what it knows. … But upon closer scrutiny it rev... -
Millimeter-Scale, Energy-Harvesting Sensor System Can...By Escape The Illusion on February 9, 2010 | No Comments
A 9 cubic millimeter solar-powered sensor system developed at the University of Michigan is the smallest that can harvest energy from its surroundings to operate nearly perpetually. The U-M system’s processor, solar cells, and battery are all contained in its tiny frame, which measures 2.5 by ... -
Is Pot Legalization Push in California a Trend That W...By Escape The Illusion on February 8, 2010 | No Comments
San Francisco – It’s almost a cliché these days that this city and its sister to the east, Oakland, stand as the primary incubators of some of California’s infamously wacky but later transformational social and political ideas. From the Silicon Valley to Oakland and Berkeley to th... -
The Year In Pot: Top 10 Events That Will Change the W...By Escape The Illusion on January 4, 2010 | 1 Comment
There has been a tidal shift in politics and on Marijuana laws in America, from Obama lightening up on pot prosecutions to the recognition of cancer prevention properties. #1 Obama Administration: Don’t Focus On Medical Marijuana Prosecutions United States Deputy Attorney General David Ogden issue...
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