107.9 The River » scientist http://theriver1079.com Casper's Real Rock Variety Sat, 25 May 2013 15:30:46 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 Japanese Scientists Use Human Waste to Create Meat [VIDEO] http://theriver1079.com/japanese-scientists-use-human-waste-to-create-meat-video/ http://theriver1079.com/japanese-scientists-use-human-waste-to-create-meat-video/#comments Fri, 17 Jun 2011 20:33:33 +0000 Wendy Gould http://tsminteractive.com/?p=18081 If you weren’t vegetarian before, perhaps it’s time to make the switch. Scientists in Japan have now created a way to synthesize “beef steaks” from human feces. The discovery was made after a Tokyo sewage plant approached scientists, asking them if they could figure out a way to utilize all the sewage sludge lying around.

]]> http://theriver1079.com/japanese-scientists-use-human-waste-to-create-meat-video/feed/ 0 YouTube New Blood Test Could Predict How Long You Will Live http://theriver1079.com/new-blood-test-could-predict-how-long-you-will-live/ http://theriver1079.com/new-blood-test-could-predict-how-long-you-will-live/#comments Wed, 18 May 2011 07:30:52 +0000 Jon Michaels http://theriver1079.com/?p=5170 A blood test that should be available in Europe by the end of the year could give you a pretty good indication of how fast you are aging and how much longer you will live.

The test measures telomeres, structures on the end of each of your chromosomes, which scientists think may hold the key to determining a person's "true age."

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