Natural Science Forum / Biology / Biology / July 2007

I want to test various things for chemical contamination.
You know, like the magazines TheEcologist.co.uk and Oekotest.de
do every month. However I am just one person and I have no idea
where to get the test kits to test for things like

Can humans be safely put into a coma by way of drugs?  If so, what
drugs would be used and how long can be they safely kept in a coma?
If there's a time limit, how long do they need to be out of the coma
before being safely put back into one?

Many years ago I was told the following story and I would like to know
whether it is true.
Silkworms, which although blind are normally attracted by light and will
raise their heads towards one, can be trained by electric shock therapy to

Does anyone knows how a paper nautilus moves forward?

I found a good website that surveyed aluminum and fluoridation intake
as to prevalence of Alzheimer
disease. I was looking to see if the frequency of Alzheimer was
greater in fluoridated countries like

I'm not even sure where to start with this. Google is no help.
At the beach yesterday, my daughters and I noticed spurts of water coming
out of the sand, almost like small shots from a squirt gun or a syringe.
Digging in the sand showed that the water was being produced by small ...

Read all about it, here: http://Muvy.org

The central dogma of molecular biology was first enunciated by Francis
Crick in 1958 and re-stated in a Nature paper published in 1970.The
central dogma of molecular biology deals with the detailed residue-by-
residue transfer of sequential information. It states that such

if single cells reproduce by splitting in two, then what is meant by
the "age" of a given cell?
peace
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BBC NEWS
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6272752.stm
A tiny generator powered by natural vibrations could soon be helping
keep heart pacemakers working.

New monograph-book: "Optimal Strategy for Human Cloning; stem-cell
vice nuclear-transplantation", Archimedes Plutonium
Internet book published 1995-2007 (assimilated in June 2007 in
sci.med,sci.bio.technology,soc.history)