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100% of Onion Waste Powers Largest Factory
The largest onion processor in the nation began this week to convert 100 percent of its onion waste -- 300,000 pounds per day --...
Vaccine Shields Monkeys From Simian Form of HIV
Raising hopes for the development of an AIDS vaccine that might actually work, researchers report they were able to protect monkeys against infection...
Doctors Transplant Windpipe in a New Healthier Way
Doctors have given a woman a new windpipe with tissue grown from her own stem cells, eliminating the need for anti-rejection drugs....
Medical Breakthroughs Give New Hope Across the Board
Major medical advancements in research this century are transforming diseases and common health problems bringing hope to millions. From alzheimers to glaucoma, MS to...
‘Nutraceutical’ Citrus Formula Helps Beat Incurable Cancers
If you want to know what truly sets Dr. Isaac Eliaz apart, just ask Bonnie Bell, a spirited survivor of Stage 4 breast cancer,...
‘Major Discovery’ from MIT Could Unleash Solar Revolution
In a revolutionary leap that could transform solar power into a mainstream energy source, MIT researchers have overcome a major barrier: how to store...
Breakthrough Gene Treatment Banishes the Darkness
"A pioneering gene therapy trial has helped a blind man to see in a breakthrough that brings hope to millions affected by eye diseases....
Poop-Powered Fuel Cell Could Power the World
Benson Lee has developed a kilowatt-size fuel cell that can run on gases emitted from decomposing animal droppings, human waste and food waste. The...
Autism Gene Breakthrough Hailed
"Scientists have found new autism genes by scanning the largest collection of families with multiple cases of autism ever assembled. The monumental task of...
Cheap Safe Drug Kills Most Cancers
It sounds almost too good to be true: a cheap and simple drug that kills almost all cancers by switching off their “immortality.” The...
Scientists Find Way to Slash Cost of Drugs
Calling for 'ethical pharmaceuticals,' two professors have "devised a way to invent new medicines and get them to market at a fraction of the...
Man Wins Nobel Prize Like His Father
Roger Kornberg, a biochemist at Stanford University, won the Nobel Prize in chemistry for work with DNA and genes... just like his father before...
MIT Students Invent Cars That Keep Going . . . and Going
50 college students from 21 Universities around the world have converged on MIT for an 8-week Vehicle Design Summit. The goal? To invent...
Video Game Therapy Retunes Brain
Doctors in 2002 pronounced Ethan Myers brain dead for life. Today he is at peer level in reading, walking and talking, and for much...
Staying Healthy (Naturally) is Smart Science
Thousands of Americans wrote to a small, but forward-thinking company to say 'thanks’ for inventing an arthritis treatment that works often when nothing else...
Healing the Globe: 11 Bright Spots
A quick rundown of 11 bright spots that are healing the globe, from Cairo to California, from Bolivia to British Columbia, From Moroco to...
Healing on Her Mind; Surviving a Brain Tumor
As Cheryl Clark began a weekend horseback ride one sunny October afternoon in 1997, a time bomb went off. A violent seizure threw the...
Corporations Mimic Rainforest Efficiency While Creating Profits
In natural systems like rainforests, one creature's waste is another's food, and virtually nothing is lost forever. Contrast this highly efficient natural system with...