No oxygen - and alive!

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Hi kids!

Have you heard of the news about a discovery made about an organism that lives - without oxygen?

How's that?

Read it below:

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"Scientists have found the first multicellular animals that apparently live entirely without oxygen. The creatures reside deep in one of the harshest environments on earth: the Mediterranean Ocean's L'Atalante basin, which contains salt brine so dense that it doesn't mix with the oxygen-containing waters above."
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Happy discovery!

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Monkeys can now see the world in full colour

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PARIS - Two monkeys were cured of colour blindness, thanks to gene therapy that one day may open the way to treating eye disorders in humans, scientists said yesterday.

The ground-breaking technique used a cold virus as a "Trojan horse" to infect cone-shaped cells in the retina, stealthily delivering a gene that provides a pigment which is sensitive to red.

About 20 weeks after the treatment, the two primates began to acquire full colour vision, according to the paper, published by the British journal, Nature.

It thus gives the lie to the belief that congenital vision defects become "hard-wired" through neural connections soon after birth, and cannot be corrected.

Colour vision in the two adult squirrel monkeys has remained stable more than two years after treatment, the paper says.

Red-green colour blindness affects between 5 and 8 per cent of men, and around 1 per cent of women. AFP

From TODAY, World – Thursday, 17-Sep-2009

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700-year-old skull washes up on Aussie beach

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After the discovery of dinosaur bones, Australia now has, as what they claim, a 700-year-old skull. And a child’s at that?

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