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A 60-year-old Australian man received a liver transplant from a 15-year-old boy who died of anaphylactic shock after eating a peanut. Now the organ recipient has also developed a life-threatening allergy to nuts. Despite having no history of nut allergy, he had a dangerous reaction to a cashew nut 25 days after receiving the transplant. None of the other people who received donated organs from the same teenager developed nut allergies.

Immunologist Tri Giang Phan says there has only been one recorded case of a nut allergy being transferred by organ transplantation before, in France in 1997, when a patient received both a liver and a kidney from the same donor.
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Florida was all set to take Clonaid to court for endangering a baby?s health by cloning it. But there’s no chance of that now, since Clonaid’s chief executive, Brigitte Boisselier, testified under oath that the baby, named Eve, is living in Israel. Since the family is now outside the Florida court’s jurisdiction, the judge dismissed the case.

Clonaid says it’s no longer in touch with the child or its parents, since further contact might lead to the child’s identity being revealed. The parents are afraid she could be removed from their custody. Now we may never found out if Eve is really a clone. Even if she pops up 20 years from now and says, “I’m a clone!” she’ll still have to prove it, which will only be possible if her mother is alive and cooperative.

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In our newest Insight, Paul Anderson, of the Canadian Crop Circle Research Network, tells about the strange experiences of a CCRN team that recently inspected cornfields where two crop circles were formed during 2002. Dowsing rods went crazy, strange lights were seen and animals avoided the area. The circles appeared near a prehistoric site. These are the same anomalies that puzzle crop circle researchers in the U.K., but they’re happening much closer to home.

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A drug can probably be developed that will let us eat as much as we want and not gain weight. It will also protect us from type 2 diabetes, which is related to weight gain.

Dr. Ronald Kahn studied mice that were genetically altered to have no insulin receptor in their fat, so they could eat all they wanted and not gain weight. They also lived longer than unaltered mice. Kahn says, ?Since insulin is needed to help fat cells store fat, these animals had less fat and were protected against the obesity that occurs with aging or overeating.”
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