Word: pollenization
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...oversensitive to pollen? Do trees make you sneeze? Then you may be in for this spring...
...evaluate such remedies, Jacobs will rely on both standard trials and an increasingly popular research technique: analyzing the outcome of differing therapies in matched groups of patients. Such a study, he explains, might compare the effects of bee pollen with conventional antihistamines in treating allergies. Since alternative healers are new to scientific studies, the office will take steps to monitor the validity of records and results. At a minimum, Jacobs hopes to provide a service to consumers. At best, he says, "we may help promote a revolution in thinking among practitioners and researchers. It's a bold new venture, sort...
...robocar. None of these advances are without their costs and risks. Drexler's assemblers, for example, could create bounties of goods and services -- or they could unleash artificial pests of unimaginable destructiveness. One nightmare creature from Drexler's book: an omnivorous bacteria-size robot that spreads like blowing pollen, replicates swiftly and reduces the biosphere to dust in a matter of days...
Until that time, millions of Americans will continue to sneeze and suffer, victimized by errant genes, pollen grains, mold spores, dust-mite dung and the family...
...that time of year again, when airborne pollen leaves millions of people wheezing and sneezing. There is no easy escape, but scientific advances could bring better treatments...