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Body's First Line of Defense Depends on Sunshine Vitamin

By Katie DrummondMar 8th 2010 – 3:17PM
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(March 8) -- Your body's first line of defense can benefit from an ample dose of the sunshine vitamin, according to a new study that examined the link between vitamin D and human immunity. Estimates suggest that about half the world's population suffer from inadequate levels of the vitamin, which is produced by the body...

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GADLING

Mt Everest now has cell phone service

By Kraig Becker Oct 30th 2010 - 01:02PM

Nepali cell phone company Ncell announced this week that they have activated a cell tower in Mt. Everest base camp, providing reliable 3G coverage on the mountain for the first time.

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Walmart Teams Up with T-Mobile to Offer Cell Plans

By prods@weblogsinc.com (Connie Madon) Sep 15th 2010 - 01:41PM

Walmart ( WMT ) is teaming up with T-Mobile, which is the U.S. wireless operation of Deutsche Telekom ( DT EGY ), to offer a unlimited talking and texting for $45 per month, the USA Today reported.

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Adult stem cell research far ahead of embryonic

Aug 02nd 2010 - 12:08AM

Some of the new approaches, like the long-proven treatments, are based on the idea that stem cells can turn into other cells.

T cells News From the Web

  • 11/19/10 Photovoltaic Cells Source: Buzzle Many companies dedicated to science and technology have put up a wide variety of photovoltaic cells for sale, both for personal use and professional usage.
  • 10/06/10 This Week in Cell Source: GenomeWeb In Cell this week, researchers in Spain and Philadelphia used a GENCODE annotations of the human genome to characterize more than 1,000 long noncoding RNAs that are expressed in multiple cell lines, and found an enhancer-like function for a set of the long ncRNAs in human cell lines .
  • 07/20/10 Buy And Cell Source: The Truth About Cars 17 year-old Steven Ortiz is the envy of his friends at Charter Oak High School.

Background on T cells

T cells or T lymphocytes belong to a group of white blood cells known as lymphocytes, and play a central role in cell-mediated immunity.

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