Extremis is also the name of a bioenhancement process that turns some of the movie's humans into turbocharged heavies who glow with evil energy and look like zombies.
Tinseltown's humans have their pick of parties during the season.
It's as if humans have turned the dial on Earth's blanket, and we'll feel the heat only in a matter of time.
To even begin testing its Alzheimer's vaccine in humans, Elan will have to convince regulators in the U.S. and Europe that the new version is likely to be safe.
Set on the lush and magical jungle planet of Pandora, the story takes place against the backdrop of a war between invading humans and Pandora's native species, the Na'vi.
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Thus confirmed in his ideas, Dr Susser went on to trace the incidence of anti-social personality disorder (ie, a pathological tendency to behave badly towards one's fellow humans) in the two groups.
Mr. Brannaman's techniques stress kindness (how you treat a horse reflects how you treat your family and other people in your life) combined with firmness. (Like Cesar Millan, TV's "Dog Whisperer, " he teaches humans how to be an animal's parent, not its friend.) Ms. Meehl's own techniques include astute showmanship and, in one instance, a shocking illustration that some horses remain immune to humane ministrations.
"It's a harsh environment for humans to work inside, " said Hidehiko Nishiyama of Japan's Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency (Nisa).
Clinical trials are expected to begin later this year to test the drug's effectiveness in humans.
But researchers are investigating whether Johne's is linked to Crohn's disease in humans.
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For most of the species's existence, humans lived in small foraging bands that had little material surplus and therefore enjoyed a relatively egalitarian existence.
Even if the trace elements of PCBs that can be found in Hudson River fish posed a danger to humans, the EPA's solution is ill-conceived.
The cost of medical care for pets is rising as fast as it is for humans, and that's helping to spur sales of pet insurance.
This means that the immune cells from, let's say, humans are unable to recognise a virus that has been infecting birds - they offer no protection.
"It shifts one's self-perception of who and what one is and what one deserves, and there's little we humans won't do to perpetuate our positive self-concepts, " he said.
Whereas, if it's just in humans that we see this then we might consider something much more specific, such as foraging in and along rivers and the like.
Concern about the flu has been fanned by reports of bird flu strains that have infected humans, although there's no evidence yet that they've been transmitted from one person to another.
He said there was "no convincing evidence" of phenylbutazone's carcinogenicity in humans "because in the individuals studied many other drugs had also been taken and any one of these might have caused the cancers seen".
From tiny leptanilline ants that look like a dusting of pepper to Australia's 5cm (2-inch) bulldog ants, the weight of the Formicidae family is equal to that of the world's population of humans and accounts for 10% of the biomass of all the creatures on the planet.
When it's possible to make humans smarter, sharper, and faster, how will that affect us?
In North Dakota, a hunter has raised concerns about lead's potential impact on humans.
Humans disagree, and that's what fuels the raging online communities, political systems, wars and sporting events.
"It's rat data but humans are mammals just like these animals are mammals, " he told Reuters.
It is now found in that mammal's descendants, including humans, sheep, rats and mice.
Here is my real solution to America's debt crisis: Humans seek their own self-interest.
The report you heard today states more categorically that we humans are affecting the earth's climate system.
Implied in Ehrlich's writing was that humans were consumers, not producers, of resources.
It was thought that pasteurising milk could cut the risk of Johne's being transferred to humans, but this is now being questioned.
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