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Long-sought Maya City -- Site Q -- found in Guatemala
A team of scientists including Marcello Canuto, assistant professor of anthropology at Yale, has found incontrovertible proof of Site Q, a long-speculated Mayan city, during a mission to the northwest Peten region of Guatemala. Researchers Identify Cells That Make Relapse Inevitable In Acute Lymph
Scientists in Australia have discovered that in acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) there are "good"and "evil"clones of the same type of ALL cell. The "evil"cells are clones that have a pre-existing resistance to drugs used for treating ALL, and their presence in a patient means that person will inevitably relapse after chemotherapy, according to research presented at the 18th EORTC-NCI-AACR Symposium on Molecular Targets and Cancer Therapeutics. [Odd] Misplaced $377,000 found in office
More than $377,000 -- proceeds from the sales of prisoner-made goods and services -- was squirreled away over a period of years in a state employee's office, mostly in a desk drawer. Authorities believe incompetence, rather than any criminality, was to blame. Allicin In Wonderland: Scientists 'Weaponize' An Antibody To Deliver C
In a recent study published in Molecular Cancer Therapeutics, researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science paired the active ingredient of a garden remedy with advanced bio-technology to deliver a powerful punch against cancer. The cancer killing effectiveness lies in their technique of arming a cancer-targeting antibody with the destructive potential of the dietary molecule otherwise known as "allicin." CMS/HCFA History
Information from CMS about the history of CMS: the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, formerly known as the Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA). The Medicare and Medicaid programs were signed into law on July 30, 1965. Features a timeline of milestones, transcripts of oral history interviews with important players in the history of CMS programs, information about the signing ceremony, materials from the 30th and 35th anniversaries of CMS, and a CMS history quiz. Early Vision of Semple, Swett Realized in Broad, Firm Educational Syst
A brief early history of California public schools written in 1925 by William Christopher Wood, the State Superintendent of Public Instruction. Includes information about Robert Semple, delegate in the first Constitutional Convention of California in 1849, John Swett, who became superintendent of public instruction in 1863, and descriptions of early schools in California, such as "the first school for American children in California"opened in 1846. From the Virtual Museum of the City of San Francisco. The First Laugh: New Study Posits Evolutionary Origins Of Two Distinct
In an important new study from the forthcoming Quarterly Review of Biology, biologists from Binghamton University explore the evolution of two distinct types of laughter -- laughter which is stimulus-driven and laughter which is self-generated and strategic. [Ironic] An Italian pensioner committed suicide after his wife fell in
Recalling the end of Romeo and Juliet, the 70-year-old man, Ettore, who had sat by his wife's bedside for four months after she slipped into a coma following a heart attack, finally gave up hope and gassed himself in the garage of his family home.Less than a day later, his wife, Rossana, woke up in her hospital bed in Padua and immediately asked for him. The Numbers Behind The Kidney: Mathematicians Find A Useful Niche In B
Mathematics professor Harold Layton was an unusual graduate student back in the 1980s. While the other Duke students stuck to theorems and proofs, Layton turned his attention to something more ordinary: urine. For his dissertation he created a mathematical model of how the kidney combines water and waste to produce the familiar yellow stream. Eat like Grandma, live longer
According to an article in the New York Times magazine recently, there are nine golden rules of nutrition that in these days of overweight obesics, rising sugar levels, and general all-round fitness collapse, we could all do well to follow. Or, could we?I’ll list the rules, as compiled by article author Michael Pollan, and re-compiled [...]
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