Episode #405
News Items
Science or Fiction
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Item #1
Science
A new cancer treatment being tested on mice shows no side effects – the treatment attacks only cancer cells and leaves the neighboring healthy cells alone. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/04/130403131354.htm
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Item #2
Fiction
A comparative biology study shows the life expectancy of a mouse can double from 4 years to 8 years with an infusion of stem cells from the naked mole rat. http://www.nia.nih.gov/health/publication/aging-under-microscope/whats-good-mice-good-men
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Item #3
Science
Scientists have developed a means of allowing the thoughts of a person to control the movements of a mouse. http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn23343-interspecies-telepathy-human-thoughts-make-rat-move.html
Skeptical Quote of the Week.
‘Still, our knowledge of the planets was meager, and where ignorance lurks, so too do the frontiers of discovery and imagination.”- Neil deGrasse Tyson