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GQ Magazine Shows Off The 2010 “Rock Stars Of Science”

by SlantedScientist November 17, 2010

In December’s GQ, the magazine introduces this year’s “Rock Stars Of Science”, a campaign funded by the Geoffrey Beene Foundation in order to bring scientists to the public’s attention. The theory is that kids are losing interest in science, and their parents aren’t encouraging them much any more. So, because we all know that scientists [...]

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Scientists Make Blood From Skin Cells: Miserable Teens Everywhere Begin Sucking On Their Wrists

by SlantedScientist November 7, 2010

In news which will delight all those teenagers who walk around in white facepaint and black cloaks, like they’re some kind of a frickin’ vampire and not just a deluded adolescent, scientists claim to have made blood from skin cells. Of secondary importance, patients suffering from cancer, anemia and a host of other diseases gain [...]

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Muting Myostatin Makes Musclebound Monkeys

by SlantedScientist August 12, 2010

  Great news for skinny guys! Scientists have used gene therapy to successfully increase the size and strength of lab monkeys’ muscles. But calm down, stickboys: the intended use of this research is in treating degenerative muscular diseases. Better keep paying that gym subscription for a while longer yet.

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Dr Ozzy? Newspaper Signs Ozzy Osbourne As Health Adviser

by SlantedScientist August 12, 2010

We have a list of all the people we would go to for medical advice if we were struck down by some catastrophic illness. Anybody at Johns Hopkins – right down to the janitorial staff – is at the top. Our list then moves onto the Cleveland Clinic, the Mayo Clinic, and continues all the [...]

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by SlantedScientist August 8, 2010

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