Deep in the deserted coal mines of Illinois lie?fossil forests!
These were some of the first forests on earth and have now all turned to stone, stretching for many miles?mostly on the ceilings of the mines.
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No more matching blood types for transfusions – Sometimes, before an operation, the patient who is about to go under the scalpel is asked to give blood, so the surgeon knows the right blood type will be available, if needed. Some people are frightened of blood transfusions, because they have transmitted AIDS and Mad Cow Disease. But soon, all that will be over?researchers have discovered how to create blood from stem cells! Who said stem cell research wasn’t valuable?
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Anne Strieber’s newest diary! – In her new diary, Anne Strieber writes: “A cable network approached us about making a reality series about UFO abductees and after talking to the head of the production company, Whitley became convinced that he took this subject seriously, so we said yes. Part of the shooting consisted of interviews with so-called ‘abductees’?many of them with implants (just like Whitley has). The film crew also wanted to shoot some footage of Whitley working at his computer in our small apartment in LA, so we agreed to that too.”
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New findings about the causes of Mad Cow Disease show that sometimes it may be genetic?for cows, anyway.
Researcher Juergen A. Richt says, “We now know it’s also in the genes of cattle.” Until several years ago, it was thought that the cattle prion disease bovine spongiform encephalopathy?also called BSE or mad cow disease?was a foodborne disease. But his team’s new findings suggest that mad cow disease also is caused by a genetic mutation within a gene called Prion Protein Gene.
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