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Texas gender clinic dubbed ‘Frankenstein’s lab’ performs hundreds of experimental surgeries each year – including giving patients a penis AND vagina and ‘Barbie-dolling’ clients by removing both

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A gender clinic in Texas dubbed ‘Frankenstein’s lab’ has performed hundreds of unconventional genital surgeries that many experts describe as ‘dangerous.’

The Crane Center for Transgender Surgery in Austin bills itself as a world leader in operations for non-binary people – those who don’t identify exclusively with one gender.

The surgeries include giving patients a penis and vagina, or completely removing their sex organs, essentially ‘Barbie-dolling your genitals,’ as one critic put it.

The center director, Dr Curtis Crane, has

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NASA’s history of X-planes: As the X-59 supersonic jet dubbed the ‘son of Concorde’ is unveiled, MailOnline reveals the space agency’s most weird and wonderful experimental aircraft

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After years of anticipation, NASA finally unveiled its latest experimental aircraft this month. 

Dubbed the ‘Son of Concorde’, the $247.5 million X-59 plane is capable of cruising at 937 miles per hour – faster than the speed of sound.

It’s the latest in a long line of what’s known at NASA as ‘X-planes’ – experimental aircraft with weird and wonderful designs. 

As the past 75 years has shown, X-planes can break milestones and shape the future of aeronautics, or be

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Readers discuss Indigenous healing, an experimental depression treatment and more

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Rethinking healing

Western colonists’ seizure of Indigenous lands and subsequent abusive assimilation efforts continue to harm and traumatize Indigenous people, leading to high rates of mental illness, chronic disease, incarceration and suicide. Psychologists are researching whether mental health programs founded on Indigenous traditions can help these communities reconnect with their culture and heal, Sujata Gupta reported in “Culture aids Indigenous mental health” (SN: 9/23/23, p. 14).

The story resonated with reader Gary Seeman. “I retired from psychological

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Is this the beginning of the end for Alzheimer’s? Experimental vaccine prevents disease in early study – adding to year of dementia breakthroughs. So take our interactive map to see how many have memory-robbing disorder in YOUR county

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A new vaccine that appears to stop Alzheimer’s in its tracks is adding to optimism that this could be the beginning of the end for the disease.  

A study of the jab in mice found that not only did the shot clear harmful amyloid plaque from the brain, it also prevented the behavioral changes that normally plague Alzheimer’s sufferers.

It comes after a year in which two breakthrough drugs proved they could slow the disease, ending decades of failed trials

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Sleeping sickness is nearing elimination. An experimental drug could help

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The patient arrived at the hospital one hot night in Masi-Manimba, an agricultural town unfurled along the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s Lukula River.

He couldn’t speak, he couldn’t walk, he was conscious but “barely could make … gestures,” says Béatrice Kasita, a nurse who was there when he came in. She remembers his deformed posture, how his body curved into a fetal position.

He was also unusually drowsy — a telltale sign of his illness. The patient, a 27-year-old

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Cancer vaccine ‘cure’: Three terminal patients put in remission by experimental shot

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After a 20-plus-year battle with cancer and 12 brutal rounds of surgery and treatment, Stephanie Gangi was ready to give up.

When doctors found a new tumor the size of a grapefruit on her adrenal gland last summer, neither her mind nor body could take another course of chemotherapy. 

To the shock of her two daughters and healthcare providers, the novelist, 66, declined further medical treatment. ‘I decided to see what happens; just take my chances,’ she told DailyMail.com. 

‘My

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Experimentelle Embryonen und der Notfall der US-Affenpocken

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Auf der Suche nach neuartigen Formen der Langlebigkeitsmedizin will ein in Israel ansässiges Biotech-Unternehmen nach eigenen Angaben Menschen im Embryo-Stadium herstellen, um Gewebe für Transplantationsbehandlungen zu gewinnen.

Das Unternehmen Renewal Bio verfolgt die jüngsten Fortschritte in der Stammzellentechnologie und künstlichen Gebärmuttern, die von Jacob Hanna, einem Biologen am Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, demonstriert wurden. Anfang dieser Woche zeigte Hanna, dass sein Labor ausgehend von Mausstammzellen äußerst realistisch aussehende Mausembryos bilden und sie mehrere Tage lang in einem mechanischen

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Das Spoken-Word-Album ‘Experimental Words’ reimt sich auf die Vernunft

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„Die Wissenschaft stellt die Fragen. / Und Poesie markiert die Stelle.“

Diese Zeile aus „Unweaving Science“, dem Eröffnungstrack des Spoken-Word-Albums Experimentelle Wörter, beleuchtet die Verbindungen zwischen Wissenschaft und Kunst. Das Album, eine vielseitige Sammlung von 10 Gedichten, die aus der Zusammenarbeit zwischen Forschern und Spoken-Word-Künstlern entstanden ist, ist eine Hommage an das Handwerk und die Kreativität, die Wissenschaftler und Dichter gleichermaßen antreibt.

Das Album stammt aus den Köpfen der Koproduzenten Sam Illingworth und Dan Simpson, die selbst

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