Daily Archives: January 30, 2010

Artificial Virginity Kit

By Machiavelli | Published: January 30, 2010
The Chinese company Gigimo advertises its Artificial Hymen Virginity kit across the Arab world. The kit, which allows women to fake sexual purity on their wedding night, is the sort of product one might find in a novelty store or sex shop in America. But in Egypt, nuptial night virginity is deadly serious business. Women [...]
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Reversing Aging

By Machiavelli | Published: January 30, 2010
a Howard Hughes Medical Institute team has found that through exposure to “young” blood cells, bone marrow stem cells start to act young again as well. “The researchers have not yet isolated the blood-borne factors that can switch old stem cells back to a more youthful state, but their results are consistent with other recent [...]
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