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Though this discovery was originally aimed at the developing world, it might just turn around & George Jetson the hell out of a tricky surgical procedure.
What happens with a cataract is that some of the proteins in the lens go a bit wacky over time.
And these changes make them stop working the way they’re supposed to.
Since the standard fix is a bit iffy to have done in low-tech facilities, the researchers thought, “What if we could take that operation and put it in a bottle?”…
UK Food Scientists International Heroes like these guys have [re]disovered a curious natural protein that happens to have some seasonally-apt, and awesomely-paradoxical properties.
When the magical stuff is added to ice cream, the ice cream, in-fact, melts slower. Not zero hot-weather drips, but dang close.
Also, this angel from upon-high to sweaty summer children has other benefits. It seems to make the ice cream smoother, similar to the more expensive varieties that have less air, finer crystals, & more butterfat…
John: […]Or that the earth goes around the sun.
Sherlock: Oh God, that again! It’s not important!
John: Not important? It’s primary school stuff! How can you not know that?
Sherlock: Well, if I ever did, I’ve deleted it.
John: “Deleted it”?
Sherlock: Listen. This is my hard-drive, and it only makes sense to put things in there that are useful. Really useful. Ordinary people fill their heads with all kinds of rubbish, and that makes it hard to get at the stuff that matters! Do you see?
Well it turns out that high-functioning-sociopath Sherlock! & your brain have something in-common.
For the first-time, researchers have discovered that it has a Protein, named after one of the world’s most awesome swordsmen –or cats as the case may be,
That purposely-destabilizes synapses between some neurons in your brain,
-Actively making you more-likely to Forget…
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Whiskey The Dog is a four-legged test-pilot for the future of skeletal biotech.
He’d gotten sick and needed some work on his jaw.
But rather than just go the standard route where things never quite return to normal, Drs. Huey, Arzi and Verstraete at UC Davis came up with a new experiment to try on Whiskey and 7 of his closest friends.
Using some titanium brackets, a hard-sponge-bone-scaffold and special proteins, they were able to fill in a full 2-inch-long gap in his jaw.
Within 3 months…
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