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Science News January 21, 2006 Janet Raloff	Caffeinated Liver Defense A 20-year long study recently concluded people who routinely drank more than two cups of coffee or tea per day faced only half the risk of being hospitalized with cirrhosis and other types of serious liver disease as did people consuming less of these drinks.
PC Magazine January 18, 2006 Sebastian Rupley	Print Me a Heart Valve The National Science Foundation has awarded $5 million to a team developing a system that takes cells from a patient with a damaged organ or heart valve and uses those cells to "print" a replacement organ.
Fast Company January 2006 Joseph Manez	This Will Make Your Skin Crawl A new concept for programmable video displays embedded just under the surface of your epidermis could let your own skin become a medical monitor.
Fast Company January 2006 Lucas Conley	Getting Inside Your Head A company that "fingerprints" brain activity to gauge emotional responses has attracted interest from Madison Ave. to the CIA.
Science News January 14, 2006 Janet Raloff	Cancer and Soft Drinks? Oops, Never Mind Soft drinks may not constitute a health food, but according to a new study, neither are they the carcinogenic villains that recent media accounts suggested.
Prepared Foods January 1, 2006	Developing a Complex Water-soluble fiber shows promise in lowering low-density lipoprotein cholesterol. There is also evidence that it may regress soft plaque in the arteries.
Scientific American January 9, 2006 Philip E. Ross	Half-Brained Schemes If halving the brain of an epileptic child can suppress debilitating seizures without interfering with the development of normal intellectual abilities, what's all that gray matter good for, anyway?
Scientific American January 2006 Charles Q. Choi	Un-Killing the Messenger Processing bodies do more than serve as RNA trash bins in cells. Research now suggests that these P-bodies are less like junkyards and more like office centers, where messages are amassed, silenced and reactivated.
Bio-IT World Dec 2005/Jan 2006 Maureen McDonough	The Century of the Cell Like most new life science industries, the stem cell business landscape looks like a maze. There are many paths, turns, and dead-ends, but it is quite possible that there will be more than one route to the finish line.
Bio-IT World Dec 2005/Jan 2006 Salvatore Salamone	Gates, Clinton Address Global Health Summit The conference brought together leaders in business, government, medicine, public philanthropic groups, and the arts to address and develop solutions to the world's heath crises.
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