38-year-old Mandy Sellars is now making headlines, all because of her suffering from a rare medical condition which causes her legs to grow uncontrollably. Mandy Sellars' condition is so rare, that her case is the first of its kind ever known to the scientific community.
By the looks of it, Mandy's legs j... |
15 February 2013
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University of Cambridge investigators have determined in a new study that early tetrapods (four-legged animals) did not use all their limbs for moving around. While the front feet were used for pulling their bodies forward, the hind limbs were used to maintain balance.
Scientists now believe that these early ancesto... |
24 May 2012
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A group of experts from the University of Cambridge believes that the earliest humans may have started walking on two feet in order to be able to monopolize resources in their environment. This was achieved by being able to carry a lot more food than other species. Freeing two of the limbs for transporting cargo is... |
21 March 2012
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Restoring at least partial function to paralyzed limbs has been a goal for researchers for many years, and now experts at the University of Michigan (U-M) have made an important step in this direction. They created a device that will ultimately enable the paralyzed to walk again. The new neurological technology is st... |
24 June 2011
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Experts prove that inhibiting two proteins involved in protecting the body against cancer can lead to positive developments for regenerative medicine. They say that this procedure could set the foundation for new techniques of regenerating failing organs, or regrowing amputated limbs.The research team, which was led ... |
10 August 2010
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Over the years, it has become fairly obvious that people who had their arms and/or legs amputated can still sense their limbs, as if they were still attached to their bodies. It has also become clear that people cannot only do that, but they can also imagine that they are moving their missing arms or legs in manners ... |
28 October 2009
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A new research has shown that the cells that remain in the limb stumps of salamanders do not, in fact, revert to their most basic state, the embryonic one. Rather, they “downgrade” to a certain point, but that point is far above the embryonic state. Thus, they can recover a lot faster, and contribute to g... |
2 July 2009
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When our ancestors began to use tools, quite simply put the world changed. Things that had been unreachable and impossible to achieve until then suddenly became simpler. Humans or humanoids could now use the tool to take fruits down from trees, to make rudimentary enclosures, to carve stone and wood, and, most import... |
23 June 2009
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