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14 Pets And Celebrities With Heterochromia
Though this condition doesn't discriminate between species, it does seem to favor the hot. Heterochromia normally causes no visual impairment, but it does give you two eyes of different color.
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Link: Woman Pays $50,000 To Clone Dog
http://blogs.discovery.com/daily_treat/2012/01/woman-pays...
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On an unrelated note, thousands of shelter pets are still put to death every day due to lack of funding. A woman devastated by the loss of her little dog “Trouble” traveled to South Korea to have him cloned.
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Link: The Danger Of Genetically Modified Foods
http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2012/01/the-ver...
New research shows that when we eat we’re consuming more than just vitamins and protein. Our bodies are absorbing information, or microRNA.
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We Are All The Product Of Incest
Science Buzz So, that's an
sexyalarming statistic. Do we have any geneticists in the audience that can confirm or deny this allegation?
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Link: A Toothpaste-like Gel That Can Heal Wounds Six Times Faster Than Normal
http://io9.com/5612381/a-toothpaste+like-gel-that-can-hea...
A gene therapy in the form of a thick gel is about to revolutionize wound treatment. The gel is called Nexagon, and when you apply it to a wound, it reprograms the cells to heal more quickly and efficiently.
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Image: Black Parents Have White Baby
Nmachi Ihegboro and her husband Ben (apparently) managed to conceive a white, non-albino child without any of the normal adultery. Surprised geneticists are speculating that both parents must have had some white ancestry, which by a complicated scientific process called “magic” caused their baby to be a white baby instead of a black baby. Science is amazing.
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Link: Genetically Altered Salmon Set to Move Closer to Your Table
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/26/business/26salmon.html?...
The first engineered animal for people to eat, salmon that grow faster than normal, may be approved by the F.D.A.
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Link: Studies Show Genetic Similarities of Jews
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/10/science/10jews.html?par...
A surprise from two surveys is the closeness of the Jewish groups of Europe, the Ashkenazim and the Sephardim.
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Image: Famous Brazilian Ass
Andressa Soares, aka “Watermelon Woman,” is a Brazilian tabloid fixture solely because of her booty, which measures 46 inches all the way around. Thanks, Brazil, but you can keep her. We're already set with our very own famous, talentless giant ass.
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Image: Bunny With Two Noses
That tiny thing to the right is another nose! Do you think they move separately when he's sniffing?
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Link: Mystery of the ‘Land of Twins’
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/23/world/americas/23twins....
Minerals in the water? Creepy Nazi experiments? Inbreeding? Geneticists have no explanation for the 38 pairs of twins living in a one-and-a-half square mile area in Brazil, the “twins capital of the world.”
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Video: Gay Scientists Isolate Christian Gene
Homosexual geneticists at the Pink Tiger Research Institute believe they have isolated the gene that causes Christianity. This will be very comforting to concerned parents of Christians who fear they may have somehow caused their children to choose this deviant lifestyle. (P.S. Merry Christmas!)
