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Fake Chicken Made From Soy Will Now Taste Like Chicken. Semi-Translucent People Everywhere Would Raise Arms In Celebration If Physically Capable Of Raising Arms
June 7th, 2010 | 
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Food scientists are claiming they’ve made a huge leap in making soy products taste and feel something – anything, just one tiny iota – like chicken.
This revolutionary news is being greeted with street parties and mass group hugs in cities throughout California, where consumers have been quoted describing the advance as “Like, OMG! This is like sooo amazing, because all the, like, chickens and whatnot – you know, the pigs and everything? – will be sooo happy because now people can eat, like, meat? But it’s, like, not meat? OMG, that is so awesome!!!!!!!1″
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Scientists Cure Huntington’s Disease In Mice
Work carried out at several North American research institutes, and headed by Dr Stuart Lipton,has come up with a novel strategy for treating the terrible neurodegenerative condition called Huntington’s Disease (or Huntington’s Chorea).
They used a mouse model of the disease and found that, in the mice at least, disease progress can be halted by a drug currently being used to treat patients with Alzheimer’s. Read the rest of this entry »
A Proposed Mechanism For Increased Lifespan By Low-Protein Diet
For several years, scientists have known that, at least in organisms such as flies and mice, liefspans can be significantly increased by restricting the animals’ protein intake. The mechanism(s) behind this are currently unknown, but a new piece of research suggests the involvement of mitochondria. Read the rest of this entry »