This is a medical/biology question??? Does any one out there know How can Limulus be useful to modern medicine
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they are   important in testing drugs for purity ..solution made from the crab's amebocytes—similar to human white bloos cells—is combined with a small sample of a batch of drugs, the mixture immediately clots if the drugs contain certain impurities ..\n  The horseshoe crab has a blood clotting system which produces proteins used to detect gram negative sepsis, a potentially life-threatening bacteria affecting more than 10,000 people each year. These proteins are used by the food industry to test for bacteria in canned food, in medicine for clinical testing of gram negative sepsis in humans, and by the pharmaceutical industry to test if products are free of toxins released from bacteria. The horseshoe crab is endangered in Japan due to coastal development and pollution, and destruction of wetlands and water pollution is threatening U.S. populations.
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I think it is effective in some cases, however my father didn't get results. He had pain from brain cancer, and it didn't really help with his case. I think it is used for the relief of muscle tension. In some cases, it forces the muscle to relax.
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I hadn't heard about it, but I can say with some confidence that if you heard about it on MTV, and not from a medical doctor, you should be intelligent enough to figure out whether it works or not for yourself!\n\nHow exactly can putting your feet in a spa 'detoxify' anything, unless its just washing a 'toxin' off your foot!\n\nTo paraphrase a great man; "No-one ever went broke underestimating the medical understanding of the American public"
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It can activate the flow of energy along meridian lines.\n\nthere are many other therapies that also utilise these energy paths, or meridians, without breaking the skin, that are worth considering too
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I personally love Cytomax. It has potassium in it and sodium to fight off the cramps. As a marathon runner, it seems to immediately replenish my lost electrolites and help me maintain stamina.  Plus that, it tastes pretty good.
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it is really taking genes from some animal and transplanting it into a new organism. The new organism can create the protien which you can extract. This can be useful in pharmacueticals because yo can create protiens to implant into meds for saving lives It is also useful in creating drugs and antibiotics
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This is an issue that I spend a lot of time thinking about. Being sort of closet theoretical evolutionist, I wonder just how poorly equipped our species is becoming with each medical/genetic advance we discover and then apply.\n\nYour question implies the direct application of genetic engineering and manipulation to the human race -- which is an area where there is a lot more potential for than has actually been applied, thus far. I propose that our plight has been cultivated by the application of much more mundane medicine -- to be honest, mundane might not be the best choice of words here because many of these advances are truly grandiose. However, for every modern advance that has come down the way, we surely have done nothing but weaken the genetics of our species.\n\nThink about every time an antibiotic is administered? Yes, we are helping that person overcome an infection that he/she was otherwise ill equipped to rid themselves of via their own immune system. But look where that’s got us. After only a few generations of using – and grossly misusing – antibiotics, these same organisms we were able to fight off have developed resistance to. Now, not only are these bacteria back weeding out the less genetically fit folks among us, there are literally orders of magnitude more of such people susceptible to infection because they have been able to propagate these deficiencies through procreation. In this instance, saving thousands of people of lives over the years may ultimately cost millions of other theirs. You have to ask yourself: Which situation is better.\n\nWhat you have to truly realize is that is it more correct to think and apply our medical abilities on the individual. We are able to heal many diseases and disorders that, even as recent as 50 years ago, would have never even been detected, let alone treatable. But there are a litany more that, even though they aren't curable, they are able to be treated and controlled to the point that become nothing more than chronic inconveniences -- whereas in prior times, these diseases and disorders would have been lethal. Every time we have been able to sustain a person's life beyond that which the technologies of prior years could have, we are allowing those people the opportunity to procreate. Because we don't treat these disorders and genetic susceptibilities to diseases at the genetic level, the offspring of these individuals still carry these "deficiencies.” And thus pass them along for future generations. This is great for the coffers of the medical establishment – acting as ready-made population in need of their services, but it is definitely polluting our gene pool with lesser-fit alleles that would have been eliminated by the process of natural selection. If medicine wanted to truly live up to its credo of: To practice and prescribe to the best of my ability for the good of my patients, and to try to avoid harming them; and to never deliberately do harm to anyone for anyone else's interest, maybe the medical field should take in consideration what they are doing to the species – something that Hippocrates could not have even contemplated let alone include in his oath.\n\nWhere we humans miss the boat at is thinking that we are always one step ahead of nature. What we are realizing is that’s probably a huge miscalculation. We need to take a step back and reconsider our objectives. Is medicine’s and science’s ultimate goal to help individuals within the species or to help the species?
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What a cool project!  So to answer one of your questions, the crucial distinction among your phyla will be whether or not they're chordates -- which of course includes the vertebrates (but also some invertebrates such as sea squirts and certain worms).  \n\nSo your bipedal wolf (I'm assuming the missing d was a typo, but if "bipeal" is a word from your universe, please let me know) would be phylum chordata, class vertebrata, order mammalia, family canidae, genus canus, species lupus bipedalis (and I'm envisioning something like a cross between Lawrence Talbot and Speaker-to-Animals, without retractible claws).  But that's just off the top of my head.\n\nOne thing I've discussed with my ten-year-old son is the absence of hexapod vertebrates -- e.g. flying horses, winged dragons, etc.  If you were closer, I'd invite you over for coffee and an all-day discussion of where to classify them, and how they evolved.  Since all terrestrial vertebrates have essentially the same structure, it's clear they all shared a common ancestor which makes hexapodal vertebrates, sadly, impossible in our known universe -- so was there a hexapodal (imaginary) marine vertebrate who also scuttled across the floors of silent seas before crawling out of the surf and saying "Hey, the carcharodons can't get me here!  Kewl!"?  ...Which of course suggests all sorts of hexapodal marine vertebrates that shared the same skeletal architecture.  Ooooh, fun.\n\nAnd the final question... so zoology is the study of animals.  There's also cryptozoology, which I've described flippantly as "the study of imaginary animals."  But of course, it's more technically the study of animals that may or may not exist.  So what would we call your zoology, which is the study of animals you've intentionally invented?  Oh, of course, poeiazoology (-poeia, meaing to construct -- as in mythopoeia, the term Tolkien invented to describe the invention of mythologies.)\n\nAnd on that note, elen sila lumen omentielvo!
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theres a whole bunch of conspiracy theorys on this if you search around.  I found this one article though that was kind of interesting http://archives.cnn.com/2002/WEATHER/05/27/bugs.weather/index.html\n\nif we can use microbes to make medicine why not control the weather with them... really both concepts are pretty crazy but the medicine one is already done.
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The leech has long been used in medicine, although today its use is mainly limited to limb reattachment procedures instead of the wide-ranging medical use of the past. Leeches were once so commonly used that doctors were popularly called leeches. In Old High German, lāhhi (etymon of leech) means "physician".\n\nLeech saliva contains a number of compounds which assist in its feeding. An anaesthetic limits the sensations felt by the host (and thus reduces the chance of the host trying to detach the leech). A vasodilator causes the blood vessels near the leech to become dilated, and thus provide the leech with a better supply.\n\nLastly, the leech saliva contains a peptide called hirudin, which is a highly effective anticoagulant. The leech needs this to prevent blood clots (which would block its feeding) from forming in the wound created by its mouthparts. These properties are difficult to achieve using other medical techniques, and it is for this reason that leeches have come back into clinical practice in the last 25 years. The small amounts of hirudin present in leeches makes it unsuitable to be harvested for more general medical use, so hirudin (or related chemicals) have been synthesised using recombinant-DNA technology.\n\nBdellatomy is the practice of cutting the leech open slightly while it is sucking blood to let the blood in it out, so, thinking that it is not full yet, the leech continues to bite instead of detaching itself. This practice was first recorded in 1868 by Daily News.
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I've been reading up on this new research as well. I'm really excited about it and am curious to see how well it works in human trials. Unfortunately, it wouldn't be the first time something looks promising in lab animals but fails miserably in human trials.
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I'm a graduate of Biology. We didn't dwell on ticks. You say ticks are so important, so as almost every biological being. Scientists devote their time and life to specific beings--some to rats, some to seaweeds, some to ginger. In any case, it's because they find some interesting substance that would be of good value.\n\nI haven't done any reading on ticks. But their value in the study of medicine might be related to their biological metabolisms, reproductive cycles and parasitic nature.\n\nBtw, i read your answer to a bipolar disorder question. What did you mean when you said that a person wants or was it wait to become manic again? Email me. Thanks.
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You might want to actually consider taking a CHEMISTRY class before you talk like that.  There will never be an Elixir of life, people will continue to die, the best we can do is expand lifespan by treating disease and illness.
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It is a worm, some specie of leeches would suck the blood of larger animals.\nThe link has a picture.
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Why would anyone NEED to know this?  What are you trying to do with the mouse ovum?  And how exactly does one get uterus extract from a mouse?  Sorry, your question has no answer, but it does raise a few.
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No.\n\nFirst off chlorphyll is just a tiny part of an incredibly complex system of pigments and enzymes needed to harvest light. It is really akin to asking whether you could glue a carburettor to the side of a cardborad box and turn it into an airplane.\n\nA more plausible route would be to implant entire chlorplasts into an animal cell line. That has potential, but only for narrow range of animals.\n\nSee, the thing about chloroplasts is they need light to work. And the thing about most animals is that they have evolved pigments to stop light penetrating their cells. The two conditions are mutually exclsuive. You could implant or the chlorplasts you like into a human and they won't do anything because they will be permanently in the dark.\n\nWith transparent animals like jellyfish or glass fish or similar you probably could achieve some level of autotrophic activity.\n\nIn the case of a highly active animal like a human the payoff wouldn't be worth the cost. Chlorplasts require energy to build and maintain and active animals can't afford to laze around int he sun all day. That's why the ancestors of animals abandoned their chlorophyll in the first place (did you know that all animals are descended from photosyntheic organisms?)\n\nBut with slow moving animals like jellyfish it becomes more plausible. Some jellyfish already utilise symbiotic algae to harvest sunlight, so for those species the addition of inherent chloroplasts could be a major boon.
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This looks interesting\n\nhttp://www.curezone.com/blogs/m.asp?f=596&i=6