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Scientist Presents Data Countering Medicine's Claim of Increasing Life Span In Midst Of Debate Over Medical Insurance

...gnore how placebos are well known to be able to produce the same cures as drugs. The average person assumes placebos are useless based upon Medicine's trickery in its statement 'no better than' which diverts the public away from the actual power of the placebo effect. Peck cites a 2006 New England Journal...

Fast-Track of Socialized Healthcare Imminent

... Procedural trickery Changes the Rules and Silences Opposition Debate CHESAPEAKE, Va., Apri...ntified 11 Democratic Senators who have voiced opposition to the fast-track trickery as the key to defeating this new wave of high-speed socialism. Those Senato...

Stanford researchers unmask proteins in telomerase, a substance that enables cancer

...uld match the snippet to a particular gene. With the gene in hand, the researchers could find the protein made by that gene. They also used genetic trickery to disable one of the proteins, which prevented the telomerase from working. Artandi said the next step is to find small molecules that can block that...

trickery in Biological News

Yale biologists 'trick' viruses into extinction

...sts prefer the taste of the trap crops, only these plants need to be sprayed, reducing the amount of pesticide use." Turner believes that similar trickery might be used against human viruses like HIV. He notes that HIV recognizes the T-cells it infects by CD4 molecules on the cell surface, but it then re...

'Exercise pill' switches on gene that tells cells to burn fat

...to weight gain on a high fat diet. The hope, Dr. Evans told scientists attending Experimental Biology 2007 in Washington, DC, is that such metabolic trickery will lead to a new approach to new treatment and prevention of human metabolic syndrome. Sometimes called syndrome X, this consists of obesity and the...

Grabbing addiction by the tail

... Canadian scientists have developed some clever molecular trickery that is helping to reduce the drug cravings of addicted rats. One of the problems in addiction is that neurons in some parts of the brain lose glutama...

In the sea slug's defense against lobsters, confusion is key

...ly work against their intended targets are not well understood by researchers. New work has now shown that such chemical defenses can involve modes of trickery that had not previously been appreciated as components of chemical defense. When attacked by predatory spiny lobsters, sea slugs (also known as sea ...