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If national health care reform is enacted, 93 percent of California's non-elderly population would have access to health insurance — a nearly 13 percentage-point increase in statewide coverage — according to a new fact sheet released today by the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research.
Just a quick note about the newly created Facebook page for ScienceBlog.com. Followers can upload images & videos, share links and have some discussions. It's far from perfect, but Facebook’s ‘discussion board’ will let you post comments on individual pictures, links and videos.
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Warning: Contains adult language (and laughs).
Very interesting article at the Wall Street Journal about an AIDS patient in Berlin who also happened to have leukemia. When given a bone marrow transplant to treat the latter, his physician chose a donor with a genetic defect that makes his cells immune to most forms of HIV. Looks like that immunity was passed on, and the leukemia patient is now HIV-free 600-plus days on.
I'm a UofC student. Since you're a science blog, I just wanted to inform you that I've started an environmental campaign on my site http://www.1000greenlogos.com.
Yahoo News has a good audio/visual report on a team of runners that recently finished the first run all the way across the Sahara Desert. And you thought your morning jog was grueling.
The first in a planned series of animations for Harvard University's Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, "The Inner Life of the Cell" takes undergrads beyond textbooks and vividly illustrates the mechanisms that allow a white blood cell to sense its surroundings and respond to an external stimulus. This animation explores the different cellular environments in which these communications take place. It's also really beautiful.
Cathy Seipp is facing the end of her battle with lung cancer. Her family is with her. Cathy may be familiar to a few of you who offered advice on experimental drug combinations after her standard treatment failed (not that it should matter, but she never smoked in her life). To those who don't know her, she's a sweet, classy and smart as hell journalist and mother of beautiful Maia. The curious can find more about Cathy here and over here.
Update: Cathy passed away this afternoon. And Science Blog is really, really sad about that.
Spotted this via Gizmodo, which grabbed it via MAKE. A homemade FM transmitter for the little-loved (but I own one!) iPod Shuffle.
The swirling eye of Hurricane Ivan was photographed above from the orbiting International Space Station (ISS) on Saturday as the storm's sustained 200 kilometer per hour winds wreaked havoc in the Caribbean. The bad news is that hurricane season in the Atlantic typically lasts until November 30, still over two months away. The more immediate bad news is that tropical storm Jeanne is next in line coming across the mid-Atlantic Ocean and could pass Puerto Rico sometime today.
