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GM crops: 'Point of no return in ten years' - Scotsman.com News - 1 views
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Turmeric: India's 'Holy Powder' Finally Reveals Its Centuries-old Secret - 0 views
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Turmeric
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molecules of curcumin
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insert themselves into cell membranes and make the membranes more stable and orderly
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increases cells' resistance to infection
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extreme precision is critical and lifesaving
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1. Da Vinci Surgical System
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access this machine and perform surgery with its corresponding counterparts located in an OR
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2. NeuroArm
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MRI-compatible
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microsurgery and biopsy-stereotaxy
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complicated neurosurgery
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3. CyberKnife
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more accurately
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4. HeartLander
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B.E.A.R.
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minimally invasive robot that can move along the surface of the human heart
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awaiting approval for use on humans
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5. The Pregnant Robot
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simulate the birth
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6. Medication Dispensing Robot
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scheduled and on demand medications throughout any facility with no errors
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streamlines the delivery
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7. Battlefield Extraction Assist Robot
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delivering radiotherapy
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dangerous situations
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size of an adult male
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250 pounds while climbing stairs
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up to ten miles per hour
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8. RP-7
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video conferencing and other capabilities
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examine patients
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7i counterpart
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connection to medical devices
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physical therapy and rehabilitation
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9. Breast Biopsy Robot
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unassisted one-stop breast exam and optional biopsy
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simultaneous mammogram, sample extraction, and biopsy
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10. Exoskeleton
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muscular dystrophy and other neuromuscular disabilities
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developing this prototype
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amplify their strength
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transmitted to the physician
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up to 95 percent of the human range of arm motion
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11. Left Ventricular Assist Device
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helps maintain the pumping ability of a heart
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surgically implanted
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12. DEKA Arm
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control this prosthetic arm
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using their own thoughts
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'Green' lightbulbs poison workers - Times Online - 0 views
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a heavy environmental price is being paid for the production of “green” lightbulbs
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reopening of mercury mines that have ruined the environment
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depends on highly toxic mercury
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hundreds of workers at Chinese-owned factories have been poisoned by mercury over the past decade
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Osram, as a responsible multi-national company, was probably the best employer in a hazardous sector
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ruined mountain landscape of Guizhou province
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Until recently, the conditions were medieval
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European demand for mercury had brought the miners back.
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Swine flu sweeps globe - Health News, Health & Wellbeing - The Independent - 0 views
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likely to arrive in Britain,
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likely to arrive in Britain
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The Chief Medical Officer
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said four years ago that a flu epidemic was a "biological inevitability"
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sufferers will be asked to remain at home
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discuss raising the threat level
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no cases have been confirmed outside North and Central America
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rapid developments around the world
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A friend or other person will collect stocks of anti-viral drugs
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delivery to the sufferer's home
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The NHS has stockpiled
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Tamiflu – enough to cover half the British population
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in the US, no one had died and sufferers were experiencing mild symptoms
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very contagious
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We could see 15 to 20 per cent of the [UK] population affected
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The WHO rates Britain as one of the two countries best prepared for an outbreak
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monitor your health closely for seven days after your visit
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If during this period you develop a feverish illness
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accompanied by one or more of cough, sore throat, headache and muscle aches
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tell those from whom you are seeking advice about your recent travel to an area affected
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standard respiratory and hand hygiene
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avoid contact with other people
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cover your nose and mouth when coughing or sneezing, using a tissue when possible
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promptly and carefully
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washing hands frequently with soap and water
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good basic hygiene
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Clean hard surfaces
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normal cleaning product
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Make sure your children follow this advice
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similar to the symptoms of regular human seasonal influenza
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include fever, fatigue, lack of appetite, coughing and sore throat
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can be treated with the antivirals oseltamavir (Tamiflu) and zanamivir (Relenza)
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WHO is coordinating the global response to human cases
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monitoring the corresponding threat
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Swine influenza questions and answers
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science of forgetting
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Long-term memories
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altered and then it is stored again
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aren't fixed in a permanent form once they're filed away in the brain
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ramps up the memory-processing machinery
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supercritical or meaningful or scary
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stress hormones alert the amygdala, the brain's emotional control center
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The original memory? No longer there.
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superhappy sticky stuff is fun
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cognitive behavioral therapy
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isn't wildly successful
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drops to one third
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improve by only about 50 percent
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but every time they were recalled?
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what if memories were consolidated not just once,
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original memory could be changed and "reconsolidated"?
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Researchers first proposed reconsolidation in the late 1960s
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our remembrance of a single experience lands like confetti in the brain
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dry facts
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appear to lodge in the hippocampus
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emotional trauma of that same event
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seem to be housed in the amygdala
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both parts emerge together
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People cherish their memories, even their bad memories
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they want to recall them with less pain
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removing memory gets into dangerous territory
Graham Perrin
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