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A vaccine originally intended to prevent cervical cancer in girls should be given to boys as well, an advisory panel for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said today (Oct. 25). The panel voted to recommend the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine be given to boys ages 11 to 12.

A CDC panel made the controversial recommendation that the human papilloma virus vaccine, currently administered to 11 and 12-year-old girls, should be extended to boys of the same age range. Dr

For decades computer scientists have strived to build machines that can calculate faster than the human brain and store more information. [More]

Supercomputers can store more information than the human brain and can calculate a single equation faster, but even the biggest, fastest supercomputers in the world cannot match the overall processing power of the brain. And they are nowhere near as compact or energy efficient . Nevertheless, IBM is trying to simulate the human brain with its own cutting-edge supercomputer, called Blue Gene

Two books and one TV series explore the oddities of the human mind. Extraordinarily complex as the human brain may be, it is far from perfect.

Jellyfishes rely on drifting to eat.

By Ewen Callaway of Nature magazine New descriptions of Australopithecus sediba fossils have added to debates about the species' place in the human lineage.

When big companies--like Apple, Levi's, or the Gap--are caught treating their workers badly, they call Verite to help reform their organizations to prevent human rights abuses. Companies generally jump at the chance to point out any miniscule improvement in their environmental responsibility.

Scientists have discovered the coldest type of star-like bodies known, which at times can be cooler than the human body. Astronomers had unsuccessfully pursued these dark entities, called Y dwarfs, ever since their existence was theorized more than a decade ago. They are nearly impossible to see relying on visible light, but with the infrared vision of NASA's WISE space telescope , researchers finally detected the faint glow of six Y dwarfs relatively close to our sun, within a distance of about 40 light-years

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Cheap genome sequencing will let doctors treat individual patients rather than diseases. That will save lives, because people are often much more complicated than just their symptoms.

Now that we can sequence genomes, doctors now have enough complex genetic information to know what ailments you might encounter in the future and how best to treat them. The IT Future of Medicine project would help docs tailor care for individuals using genetically identical "virtual patients." Personalized medicine--the practice of treating patients based on their genetic makeup--has been a dream of the medical community ever since the human genome was sequenced. But the reality is that most doctors aren't equipped to sift through the mounds of data that come along with treating each patient using individually customized protocols.

Recently developed powerful, yet also delicate and refined, genetic tools can inva

Three books explore these innate human traits.

By Marian Turner of Nature magazine The unique physiology of the human liver means that the toxicity of some candidate drugs is not picked up during preclinical tests in animals. [More]