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[novapsyche]

Contraceptive pill influences partner choice -- "The contraceptive pill may disrupt women's natural ability to choose a partner genetically dissimilar to themselves, research at the University of Liverpool has found." This might be a follow-up to a previous study.

Rare case explains why some infected with HIV remain symptom-free for years without antiretroviral drugs

'Erasing' drug-associated memories may stop drug addiction relapses -- NMDA interference

Alternative Energy Hits the Road: Research at WPI Explores Turning Highways and Parking Lots into Solar Collectors

American Geophysical Union journal highlights -- Aug. 12, 2008 -- pgdudda, you might be interested in some of these, given your most recent post.

Comments

cure worse than disease?

[sophiaserpentia.livejournal.com]

"'Erasing' drug-associated memories may stop drug addiction relapses" -- this one scares the hell out of me, especially in the absence of detail about what mechanism exactly is being employed. We can't ask the rats what else is happening to their memories, their awareness, or even what sense of self-awareness they may have. I am afraid for which ever poor souls are fated to be the first people on whom this approach is used.

Re: cure worse than disease?

[novapsyche.livejournal.com]

I had a similar reaction. Something akin to Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, it seems.

They would test in simians first. Poor monkeys.

[dionysus1999.livejournal.com]

In the future we'll all have super immune systems, cloned from the toughest people on earth.

I like asphalt energy concept, seems like a winner, with the right heat transfer system.