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		<title>Fructose shown to encourage increased food consumption.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Feb 2011 21:17:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This press release from Oregon Health and Science University caught my eye. Like most people, I&#8217;m in a perpetual battle with my waistline, so new clues as to how to win the war are always welcome! 3JUA7J4BWKFQ The dietary concerns of too much fructose is well documented. High-fructose corn syrup has become the sweetener most [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Superoxygenated Superbeings!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2009 00:05:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This discovery is a couple of years old, but I&#8217;ve been thinking a lot recently about how humanity can improve itself (or as some folks call it &#8220;transhumanism&#8221;). Scientists from the University of Sheffield are developing an artificial &#8216;plastic blood&#8217;, which could act as a substitute for real blood in emergency situations. The &#8216;plastic blood&#8217;, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Researchers create new forms of BSE-related disease</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2008 12:55:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From a Cell press release: Researchers have shown that they can create entirely new strains of infectious proteins known as prions in the laboratory by simply mixing infectious prions from one species with the normal prion proteins of another species. The findings are reported in the September 5th issue of the journal Cell, a Cell [...]]]></description>
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