artemisinin, malaria, RNA, Midichloria mitochondrii, Apocalypto, wheat

a few squares of chocolate a day can almost halve the risk of heart attack death by decreasing the tendency of platelets to clot

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the-scientist free mag stuff:
Beating Malaria
the-scientist
ACT [artemisinin-based combination therapy]..
Coartem, artemisinin derivative artemether with lumefantrine
$2.40 for 3-day treatment.
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two new, single-pill ACT artesunate-amodiaquine number of pills from eight to two, $1dollar
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Brazil's Far-Manguinhos artesunate with mefloquine (larium)[beware suicidal ideation ] to ..drug-resistant malaria that are endemic in southeast Asia and Latin America.
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dihydroartemisinin-piperaquine (Dihydroartemisinin is the active metabolite of the other forms of artemisinin: artemether, arteether, and artesunate.)
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Malaria Atlas Project (MAP) have gathered information on 3,126 communities in 79 out of the 107 countries where malaria is endemic.
open access journal PLoS Medicine.

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Fifty Years with Double-Stranded RNA
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Some colleagues were shocked. I had stopped Herman Kalckar in the long corridor at NIH to tell him we had discovered that polyribo A and polyribo U combined spontaneously to make a double helix. The Danish biochemist had to hold on to his pipe as he responded, "You mean without an enzyme?" Corralling these long tangles into neatly ordered helices worked against entropy. And though it was completely reproducible, some scientists were still skeptical, but not all. After presenting the material at a meeting several months later, Julian Huxley, the English scientist and writer, came up and congratulated me for having discovered "molecular sex."

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the-scientist
..Australian postdoc Nate Lo ..looking for human pathogens in the tick Ixodes ricinus, the main vector for Lyme disease.
..new bug .. not in the cytoplasm of tick ova, but ..
..between the inner and outer mitochondrial membranes and eat the mitochondria up. ..

midichlorians. .. George Lucas had invented these.. organisms apparently reside within the cells of almost all living things and communicate with the Force.

..suggesting that their new species be called Midichloria mitochondrii.

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Apocalypto
The trailer doesnt run on my wind2K, I fear to bring my own XP into work, because I fear arriving to find the locks changed by creditors.
Mayan headdress were so elaborate that the surmise is they used balsa wood.
(Mel G probably used polystyrene?)
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huipil
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product placement:
"I didnt want to bat, I was inside having toasted sandwiches and a coke"
Shane Warne [greatest bowler ever]

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world in our hands
hurricane tree
2006 Shell wildlife photographer of the year
Storm felled trees clered by trucks which "naturally" made this tree shape.
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wheat goes north
Unfortunately, in Australia, there is no poleward neighbour, the wheat zone moves offshore.
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artemisinin, malaria, RNA, Midichloria mitochondrii, Apocalypto, wheat