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What exactly are Airsoft Guns?
Airsoft could very well be numerous things. To most folks Airsoft is simply blasting cans in their back garden, to other individuals it’s playing full scale battle re enactments. Both are really good fun (providing safety regulations are followed) and are generally a great deal safer than using genuine weapons. Airsoft Guns do look very like real life guns, realism is a main theme of the sport which is why almost all guns you see possess a red-colored tip (showing it is Airsoft). In tournaments actual …
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Researchers at Duke University Medical Center used new tools they developed to analyze knees and hips and discovered that osteoarthritic knee joints are in a constant state of repair, while hip joints are not. “This suggests the knee has capacity for repair we didn’t know about and the main treatment strategy probably would need to focus on turning off the breakdown of knee tissue,” said Virginia Kraus, MD, PhD , professor of Rheumatology and Immunology at Duke
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In a large analysis of men participating in a prostate drug trial, researchers at the Duke Cancer Institute found a significant correlation between coronary artery disease and prostate cancer , suggesting the two conditions may have shared causes.
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Kids with Pompe disease fail because of a missing enzyme, GAA, that leads to dangerous sugar build-up, which affects muscles and movement.
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Patients treated for acute heart attacks in the United States are readmitted within 30 days more often than in other countries, a finding explained in part by significantly shorter initial hospitalizations, according to an international study led by researchers at Duke University Medical Center. The study, published in the Jan. 4, 2012, issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association , found that 60 percent of severe heart attack patients enrolled in the United States were discharged in three days or less, yet 14.5 percent of the U.S.
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A discovery in fruit flies may be able to tell us more about how animals, including humans, sense potentially dangerous discomforts. Researchers at Duke University Medical Center uncovered naturally occurring variations of a gene named TRPA1 that is important for the function of pain-sensing neurons throughout the animal kingdom. The gene makes an ion channel, which floods sensory neurons with calcium ions when the fly is near a heat source, causing fruit fly larvae to respond with a corkscrew-style rolling motion away from the heat source. View a video of an escaping larva .
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Tracking individual cells within the lung as they move around and multiply has given Duke University researchers new insights into the causes of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), a disease which can only be treated now by lung transplantation . IPF fills the delicate gas exchange region of the lung with scar tissue, progressively restricting breathing. The Duke University Medical Center researchers have discovered that some commonly held ideas about the origins of the scar-forming (fibrotic) cells are oversimplified, if not wrong


