Archive for December 31st, 2009

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Laser Deemed Best Treatment for Diabetic Retinopathy (HealthDay) HealthDay – THURSDAY, Dec. 31 (HealthDay News) — Steroid injections into the eye slowed diabetes-related eye disease, though lasers remain the treatment of choice because of side effects related to the steroids, new research shows.
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Now hear this: Swim-proof hearing aids to get test (AP) AP – They’re not your grandpa’s hearing aids.
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Extended, Extra-Creepy Na’vi Sex Scene Might Land on Avatar DVD As if that mercifully brief giant blue lizard-cat sex scene that actually made it to Avatar wasn’t disturbing enough, it turns out there’s much more—and you weirdos may get to see it in the DVD release. Like you’d expect, the Na’vi mate by...
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Invetech Delivers World’s First Production Human Tissue Printer Or, as they call it, a ’3D bio-printer.’ Essentially, it allows scientists to build tissue cell by cell. It’s that cool sci-fi medical stuff we all dream about. ‘Scientists and engineers can use the 3D bio printers to enable placing cells of almost any type...
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Thorium, the Next Uranium Wired has a fairly epic look into a material that could make nuclear power both clean and safe called thorium—named after the Norse god of thunder. Of course, scientists recognized its promise back in the 1950s. Whereas uranium is extremely rare, requires purification and creates waste that will be...
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