Early tests suggest 2-heptanone may also find a role in humans as a local anaesthetic.
Carbon dioxide is harmless to humans directly--it is a gas that humans expel every time they breathe, it is a gas that plants need to live.
Our attachment system is the evolutionary byproduct of a process humans developed to stay alive, Dr. Shorey says.
Consider that humans started talking to each other about 50, 000 to 100, 000 years ago, and over that time around a trillion humans have lived.
With their games, music, videos, social media and texting, smartphones "superstimulate" a desire humans have to play when things get dull, Lynn told CNN in an interview.
But while the presence of humans has been a major factor in increasing deforestation and the clearing of land for farming, the absence of humans can also be a threat to trees.
It was a small step for humans but it was a most significant step for humanity.
If this became a treatment in humans then the effect would need to be shown over a much longer term.
To my list of goals, I will add a conversation with humans that have the ability to move me in such a way.
And Abbott Laboratories presented a first-in-humans study of a new stent that is reabsorbed into the body, potentially removing many of the risks of having a piece of metal sit permanently in an artery.
And Abbott Laboratories (nyse: ABT - news - people ) presented a first-in-humans study of a new stent that is reabsorbed into the body, potentially removing many of the risks of having a piece of metal sit permanently in an artery.
According to Reuters, the World Health Organization (WHO) originally issued an international alert in late September saying a virus previously unknown in humans had infected a Qatari man who had recently been in Saudi Arabia, where another man with the same virus had died.
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Even though both agencies declared D5 did not pose a threat to humans, they believed it was entering the environment in quantities and conditions that could have a long-term harmful effect on biodiversity.
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Mice and humans are physiologically alike, so a similar effect might be expected for people, but the fact that mice are nocturnal and humans diurnal is a serious complicating factor.
Cottonseed oil is also the primary input in the production of Olestra, a frying fat that glides through humans without leaving a trace of fat or calories, and is also an important source of vitamin E for pharmaceutical producers.
But in fact a little-known group of home-worker humans plays a large part in the Google process.
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The charter comprises a set of broad principles designed to guide all humans toward a sustainable way of life.
An example might be Vermont: it has few natural advantages as a habitat for humans in winter.
The disease, first identified on German and Dutch farms, is not thought to pose a risk to humans.
Further down the road: the possibility an Ultrabook can translate for a pair of humans speaking in different languages.
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Chickens there were infected with the H7N3 virus, which Mexican authorities said does not pose a threat to humans.
Phenylbutazone, also known as bute, is not allowed to enter the food chain because it can pose a risk to humans.
After losing to a supercomputer at chess, Garry Kasparov created a team event with machines and humans working together against a single computer.
Clarence weighs about 600 to 700 kilos (94 to 110 stone), Ms Jacobs said, and his horns "could pose a threat to humans".
They tested their treated materials with Staphylococcus aureus and Escherichia coli, the gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria that are always giving humans a bad day.
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Down the road, HyQ could be a substitute for humans in hazardous situations and search and rescue operations in collapsed buildings after natural disasters.
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.
At least some can, for example, recognise themselves in a mirror a trick that humans, great apes and elephants can manage, but most other species cannot.
Another investor wrote to Dr. Kaul, the panelist, politely suggesting that, "to hear the scuttlebutt going around, " the panelists incorrectly assumed a risk to humans after some rats on lorcaserin developed tumors.
Physicist (and revolutionary) Max Tegmark likes to say that his grandmother grew up in a different universe, because since the time when she was a child, humans have discovered that the cosmos extends much farther, and obeys vastly different rules, than previously believed.
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