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A New Treatment for Arthritis: Vagus-Nerve Stimulation

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None take aim at what Kevin Tracey , in an influential 2002 article , termed the “inflammatory reflex,” a neural network that indirectly regulates immune responses to infection and injury through the vagus nerve and its connected organs. Both Galvani and SecondWave expect to announce first-in-human data within the next year.

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Environmental Charter High School Gets Solar; Greenius Goes EcoMedia

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And in the next three months he’ll be in Cambridge, Massachusetts; back in Minneapolis; the Port of Los Angeles; Long Beach, California; Long Island, New York and Denver Colorado for the latest batch of environmental projects EcoAds have helped to fund.

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This Lockheed Martin Researcher’s Work on UAVs Saves Lives

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After completing his doctorate in 2002, he began working as an R&D engineer at a Honeywell Aerospace facility in Minneapolis. Things turned around for him in the ninth grade when a new teacher had a particular way of teaching math that “turned the light bulb on in my brain,” he says. “My My grades took off right after he showed up.”

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Where Plug-In Hybrid Conversions (mostly Priuses) Are

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Rybak of Minneapolis , 2007 Prius by Hymotion , Oct 2007 (Minneapolis, MN), contact sustainability@ci.minneapolis.mn.us. Full size photo Four County EMC , 2007 Prius by Hymotion, Oct 2007 (Burgaw, NC), contact Dan Allen. Full size photo UC-Davis, Prius by Green Gears , Oct 2007 (Davis, CA), contact nick. Full size photo Mayor R.T.

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