• Science

    Foreskin for Clear Skin?

    By Julia Wallace Posted on 11.21.2008 18 Comments

    It sounds like just another uber-meltable cheese product, but Vavelta is actually miles away from anything you'd want to put in your mouth. It's a radical new treatment for facial pitting, scarring, and wrinkles made out of—what else?—newborns' foreskins. Foreskins have long been treasured by cosmetic dermatologists because they are rich in fibroblasts, tiny cells that play a crucial role in healing wounds and generating collagen and connective tissue.

    11.25.2008 at 07:04am - Comment by Vezineth

    Some religions require that boys be circumcised like in Islam. Medically circumcision is recommended as it reduces the risk of transmitting and receiving diseases.

  • Entertainment & Gaming

    Pint-Size Scientists

    By Gregory Mone Posted on 10.24.2008 4 Comments

    Brian Henson, whose father, Jim, created the Muppets, wasn’t always convinced that he would go into the family business. “I went through a spell in my teenage years where I absolutely was going to be an astrophysicist,” he admits. Now the co-CEO of the Jim Henson Company is channeling that early love of the stars into a new show, Sid the Science Kid, that’s designed to inspire preschoolers to question and reason like real scientists.

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    10.26.2008 at 03:29am - Comment by Vezineth

    That is so good, actually making kids like science and teaching them how to think. But I am afraid that by the time they do their APs in Science Subjects ( AP C , AP Chem , AP Bio and AP Calculus AB ) they will get so sick of them , that they might switch to Commerce.

  • Science

    It's Oktober: I'll Drink To That!

    By Rachel Durfee Posted on 10.21.2008 2 Comments

    A group of college students at Rice University are taking their favorite pastime and turning it into a research project. Their passion? Beer. Their project? Inventing a brew that contains resveratrol, a chemical present in wine that lowers the risk of heart disease and cancer. The team, made up of eight graduate and undergraduate students and advised by six faculty members, is entering its invention in the world’s largest synthetic biology competition: International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM), taking place November 8th and 9th in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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    10.22.2008 at 10:03am - Comment by Vezineth

    I wish they can synthesize resveratrol in non-alcoholic beverages. Its kinda bad that I cant drink beer because I am Muslim. Lucky you Christians.



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