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Japanese scientist Shinya Yamanaka was Friday honoured with a Spanish award worth 400,000 euros ($544,000) for his pioneering work on cell reprogramming.Yamanaka won the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Biomedicine, the foundation announced.The former orthopedic surgeon made his breakthrough discovery ...

Chuck Black started writing books to get his own children interested in reading the Bible. His current series is The Knights of Arrethtrae and Sir Rowan and the Camerian Conquest is one of the newest books in this series. It was here ...

Healing a few reasons why it happens naturally.This hub was designed to spread information on healing naturally.Some people are healed with visible scars. paper cuts,broken bones,outer skin graphs, burns on skin healed just to name a few..etc Norman Doidge wrote about the ...

That netherworld we enter when our bodies fail and must be discarded remains mostly a mystery. In other words, in an experience, there must be a universe of things that are unlike any we know now. We are not going to drive ...

Ninety-pound birds that once lived in South America wielded their giant, sharp beaks in quick jabs, repeatedly backing away and jabbing again, according to a new study.. The 4 1/2-foot (1.2-metre) tall birds lived about six million years ago in what is ...

Scientists make synthetic cell using manmade DNA, not quite new life but a step that wayScientists have created a living cell powered by manmade DNA.It's a bold step in the quest to build artificial organisms that might one day produce new fuels, ...

Fish in a remote crater lake in Nicaragua are splitting into separate species at breakneck speed.. very fat lips. Axel Meyer at the University of Konstanz in Germany and his team say the fat-lipped fish occupy a different ecological niche from their ...

"For about 400 years, scientists viewed the brain as a complex machine, and that meant it couldn't grow new parts," says Norman Doidge, M.D., author of The Brain That Changes Itself. Try playing a few of Dr. Doidge's mind games to strengthen ...

Brown University reports steep drop in value of endowment; down 27 percentBrown University is reporting a steep drop in its endowment.The Ivy League school says the value of its endowment fell nearly 27 percent to $2.04 billion for the fiscal year ended ...

Charles Darwin, who was born 200 years ago next month, has spent the 150 years since he published The Origin of Species fighting for the idea of common descent. Locke and Newton begat Hume and Voltaire who begat Hutcheson and Smith who ...

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Topic: Life Sciences

Japanese stem cell researcher wins top award

Sir Rowan and the Camerian Conquest

Healing- A Few Reasons Why It Happens Naturally

When We Die

Large ancient birds jabbed at prey

Manmade DNA powers cell in step to artificial life

Fat lips evolve at record speed

Change Your Brain

Brown University reports steep drop in endowment

The natural order of things

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