This month the Department of Homeland Security announced plans to study the potential of body odor as a means of identifying criminals and figuring out when they're lying. The work will expand on basic research into the chemistry of the so-called human "odorprint," which scientists say is as distinct as DNA. At first whiff, the notion that individual B.O. is as special as a snowflake sounds like a rotten joke. But body odor has proved its value as a biometric for seven centuries, ever since man first starte
Racial clues in bowel cancer find
Three more genes that raise bowel cancer risk, including one affecting only some races, have been identified.
UK scientists found one of the genes increased risk in people of European descent, but not Japanese people, reports the journal Nature Genetics.
With four gene mutations already linked to the cancer, scientists hope to work on ways to predict people at high risk.
They hope eventually to diagnose the disease earlier, or prevent it completely in some
I have been reading about this and saw a show on tv. In that show they had
men of various types from not so handsome to extremely handsome wear a t-shirt
for 3 days.
They then packaged these t-shirts and brought in a panel of women. They were
asked to smell the t-shirts and pick out the one that smelled BEST to them -
btw the men did not wear aftershave or deodorant -
The shirt pick was almost unamimous and it came from the man that had been
judged the most handsome. The women had NOT seen th
You're very welcome. I thought it was interesting and hoped others would
also.
Janet.
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>I have been reading about this and saw a show on tv. In that show they had
> men of various types from not so handsome to extremely handsome wear a
> t-shirt
> for 3 days.
>
> They then packaged these t-shirts and brought in a panel