Miracle fishes that can rise from the dead

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Gillian Renshaw, a senior lecturer in the School of Exercise Science and Physiotherapy at Griffith University in Australia, is doing research into the epaulette shark, known as the Lazarus shark, which has demonstrated an ability to survive without oxygen for several hours without suffering any brain damage by shutting down parts of its brain and producing its own tranquiliser. Renshaw hopes to find out how the tricks the shark employs work and apply them to the treatment of human conditions such as stroke.

Finfish, Finfish Fishing, Sharks, Care and treatment, Stroke (Disease), Stroke, Cerebrovascular disease, Cerebrovascular disorders, Renshaw, Gillian

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Stinger on steroids that's even scarier than Jaws

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The work of some researchers into the box jellyfish, the sting of which is capable of killing a human within minutes, is examined. Heather Walling, a research officer at the Cooperative Research Centre's Reef Research Centre at James Cook University in north Queensland, Australia, and Lisa-ann Gershwin, a doctoral student at the Australian Institute of Marine Science, are both doing research into the box jellyfish in order to find an antidote for its sting.

Jellyfishes

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A medical means to 'separate the clean from the unclean, the pure from the polluted'

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An analysis of the politics of forcible quarantine in the light of the re-emergence of Sars in China and the increasing instances of drug-resistant trains of diseases such as TB. Alison Bashford, a senior lecturer in history at the University of Sydney, has arranged an international conference on "Medicine at the Border, which will address the subject of forcible quarantine, which will take place in Sydney, Australia, in July 2004.

Analysis, Conferences, meetings and seminars, Political aspects, Quarantine

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