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US Turns Away Award-Winning Cuban Medical Scientist

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A Cuban scientist who helped develop a low-cost synthetic vaccine that prevents meningitis and pneumonia in small children says he was offended the U.S. government denied his request to travel to the United States to receive an award.

Verez-Bencomo said the State Department denied him a visa because the visit would be "detrimental to the interests of the United States."

"It's incomprehensible that a civilized nation can confuse someone who has dedicated his life to saving the lives of children with someone who goes against the interests of the United States," Verez-Bencomo said with a sigh. "I wasn't going there to talk about politics, I was going to talk about science."

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Amazing New Battery Powered by Pee

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The first urine-powered paper battery has been created by physicists in Singapore. The credit-card sized unit could be a useful power source for cheap healthcare test kits for diseases like diabetes, and could even be used in emergency situations to power a cellphone, they say.

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Scientists Use HIV Virus to Attack Cancer

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Researchers at the University of California at Los Angeles have tweaked HIV to create a gene therapy that attacks cancer tumors in mice. How can they tell? Well they also attached Fire-fly proteins and then watched the glowing virus do its work. What's that sound you say? It's a thousand hollywood writers folding this into upcoming plots of CSI, JAG, ER and Third Watch episodes.

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