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Vitamin B-12 warning: Avoid cyanocobalamin, take only methylcobalamin

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The most commonly available form of vitamin B-12 on the market is the cheap synthetic form that's actually bound to a cyanide molecule (yes, cyanide, the poison). It's called cyanocobalamin, and you'll find it in all the cheap vitamins made by pharmaceutical companies and sold at grocery stores and big box stores. The proper form of vitamin B-12 to supplement is called methylcobalamin. This is the form that exists in nature, and it is pre-methylated, meaning it's ready for your biochemistry to put to immediate use. Methylcobalamin has several key advantages over cyanocobalamin: * Increased absorption* Better retention in tissues* Contains no toxic cyanide* Supports production of SAMe

Craig Venter creates synthetic life form | Science | The Guardian

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Craig Venter and his team have built the genome of a bacterium from scratch and incorporated it into a cell to make what they call the world's first synthetic life form. This is an important step both scientifically and philosophically," Dr Venter told the journal. "It has certainly changed my views of definitions of life and how life works. The single-celled organism has four "watermarks" written into its DNA to identify it as synthetic and help trace its descendants back to their creator, should they go astray. Dr Venter's team developed a new code based on the four letters of the genetic code, G, T, C and A, that allowed them to draw on the whole alphabet, numbers and punctuation marks to write the watermarks. Anyone who cracks the code is invited to email an address written into the DNA. http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/science.1190719

Harvard scientists to make LSD factory from microbes | Science | guardian.co.uk

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With the tools of synthetic biology, Wintermute thought they might do better. The ergot fungus takes lysergic acid and turns it into a huge variety of exotic molecules. They could mix and match biological pathways from different species of ergot fungus and make potentially new drug molecules. They might even come up with a next generation dementia drug. Around 20 tonnes of lysergic acid, a precursor of LSD, are made each year and turned into real medicines, such as nicergoline, a treatment for dementia. The drug is purified from big vats of fungus (which make the compound naturally) using technology developed decades ago.

Harvard scientists reverse the ageing process in mice – now for humans | Science | The Guardian

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The process requires that there are no cancer cells present in the body (since the process used to reverse ageing is the same the causes cancer cells to grow out of control. so if there is any cancer present the therapy won't work) "What we saw in these animals was not a slowing down or stabilisation of the ageing process. We saw a dramatic reversal – and that was unexpected," said Ronald DePinho, who led the study, which was published in the journal Nature. "This could lead to strategies that enhance the regenerative potential of organs as individuals age and so increase their quality of life. Whether it serves to increase longevity is a question we are not yet in a position to answer."

Dr. White's Total Body Transplant 1 of 2 - Motherboard | VBS.TV

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In the 1970s, after a long series of experiments, White performed a transplant of one monkey head onto the body of another monkey, although it lasted just a few days. These operations were continued and perfected to the point where the transplanted head could have survived indefinitely on its new body, though the animals were in fact euthanized. The transplanted heads can see, think, feel, and taste and in short can function in all the ways that they could when attached to their original body, they simply cannot control their new one. The importance of head transplants is that if performed in humans they have the potential to save lives from almost any disease. Anything that afflicts the non-head regions of the body, be it otherwise inoperable non-brain cancer, multiple organ failure, heart disease, diabetes, etc. will be removed if the head is transplanted to a non-afflicted body. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_J._White

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Vitamin B-12 warning: Avoid cyanocobalamin, take only methylcobalamin

Craig Venter creates synthetic life form | Science | The Guardian

Harvard scientists to make LSD factory from microbes | Science | guardian.co.uk

Harvard scientists reverse the ageing process in mice – now for humans | Science | The Guardian

Dr. White's Total Body Transplant 1 of 2 - Motherboard | VBS.TV

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