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A team of cryptozoologists is headed for the South American jungle to track down a legendary apeman said to terrorise villages and tear out cattle tongues.

Scientists found evidence for blindness associated with a gene involved in retinal pH regulation. Their characterization of a mouse model with a targeted disruption of the Slc4a3 gene has revealed a new cause of blindness.

Collars with Global Positioning System units, motion sensors or other additions help owners keep track of their pets the high-tech way.

Movement is afoot to stifle "scraper sites," which scrape content off blogs and repost it on other sites to profit from ad impressions.

When quizzed about their knowledge in diagnosing tuberculosis and deciding on the best treatment, medical residents in Baltimore and Philadelphia get almost half the answers wrong, according to a survey by TB disease experts at Johns Hopkins and elsewhere.

Anorexia nervosa is a disorder with a grim reputation -- even experts say that it is often devastatingly chronic and carries high mortality rates. However, the first nationwide outcome study, recently conducted in Finland, uncovers a completely different side to anorexia: It is common, often severe, but highly transient illness. Up to 70 percent of women with anorexia recover before age 30.

A radically expanded view of the origin of civilization, extending far beyond Mesopotamia is being proposed. Mesopotamia is widely believed to be the cradle of civilization, but a growing body of evidence suggests that in addition to Mesopotamia, many civilized urban areas existed at the same time -- about 5,000 years ago -- in an arc that extended from Mesopotamia east for thousands of kilometers across to the areas of modern India and Pakistan,