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Dutch museum of the human body

In the Netherlands, has opened a unique museum where visitors can travel inside the human body. The museum is a steel figure of a seated human height of 35 meters, one sideways in the seven-storey building of glass and concrete. Be sure to visit they're website

Human Clones May Be Genetically Viable

For the first time since Hwang Woo-Suk's cloned stem cells were revealed as fakes, human cloning — for medical purposes, or even for reproduction — appears to be a realistic possibility. "We show for the first time that the same genes turned on in normal human embryos are the same genes turned on in human clones," said Robert Lanza, scientific director of Advanced Cell Technologies and co-author of a study published Monday in Cloning and Stem Cells. Lanza's team inserted human cell nu...

Are We Close to Creating Super-Humans?

Nearly every day we are inundated with new genetic discoveries. Scientists can now pinpoint many specific genes including being lean, living a long life, improved self-healing, thrill seeking behavior, and having an improved memory among many other incredible traits. Many believe that these genes can be manipulated in ordinary humans, in effect creating Super-Mutants. Isaac Asimov, the famous thinker and sci-fi writer wrote, “The advance of genetic engineering makes it quite conceivable t...