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Worn on its own, Rab C Nesbitt-style, revealing great hams of authoritative upper arm and distended stomach, the vest now looks simply wrong without some sort of fast-food effluvium staining its bell-shaped front.
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CherryPy is a pythonic, object-oriented HTTP framework.
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Researchers have found a genetic link between a molecule involved in immune response and a common form of macular degeneration. When tlr3 is activated by genetic expression, it causes cell death similar to macular degeneration in areas of mouse retinas
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It seems incredible, but as the Democrats gather in Denver to anoint Barack Obama, America could be on course to re-elect a Republican as their President. Not just any Republican either, but a belligerent 71-year-old who can't remember how many houses he owns, would happily nuke Iran and whose answer to global warming is to drill for oil in environmentally sensitive areas off the coast of America which don't even have much oil. But according to the polls, John McCain is drawing level with Barack Obama, and even pulling ahead.
Really, America is a strange, strange country. After a disastrous and illegal war, in which 4000 American soldiers have died, in the middle of an economic crisis largely caused by the investment houses that finance the Republican party, you would have thought it almost inconceivable that the Republicans could be re-elected.
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Biologists at Harvard have converted cells from a mouse’s pancreas into the insulin-producing cells that are destroyed in diabetes, suggesting that the natural barriers between the body’s cell types may not be as immutable as supposed.
This and other recent experiments raise the possibility that a patient’s healthy cells might be transformed into the type lost to a disease far more simply and cheaply than in the cumbersome proposals involving stem cells.
The new field depends on capturing master proteins called transcription factors that control which sets of genes are active in a cell and thus what properties the cell will possess. Each type of cell is thought to have a special set of transcription factors.
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If you saw it just sitting there, you’d never guess that the new Nikon D90 is a mind-blowing, game-changing camera.
Posted by: amygdala | August 30, 2008
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