I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday with their families. Undoubtedly, no matter what winter holiday you celebrate--whether it is Christmas, Hanukkah, Eid or Kwanzaa, there is always some sort of feast that punctuates it. I was cruising the blog scene earlier today and noticed that a friend posted this link to [...]
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I read this article today, which caught my eye, since we're learning the nitty gritty about mitochondrial function: Agent orange chemical, dioxin, attacks the mitochondria to cause cancer, says Penn research team
Here's a little background on Agent Orange: Agent Orange has been around since the 1940's as an agricultural herbicide and defoliant--in [...]
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Here it is, folks...enjoy!
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...to 4th period's very own Anthony Gerhart, who was named to the 2007 National Soccer Coaches Association of America/adidas all-America team. I was reading the Dallas Morning News this morning and came across that and thought I'd put it up to share with all of you.
And, if any of you ever have big things [...]
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In 1951, a woman named Henrietta Lacks unknowingly became one of medical history's most important sources of information about cancer. She also became one of biomedical ethics' most controversial figures--both celebrated and reviled, through no fault of her own.
Lacks went into the hospital in February of that year complaining of a [...]
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