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Medical technology has taken a phenomenal leap forward as around a dozen doctors assisted by 40 other medics performed a 15-hour long, world’s first scalp and partial skull transplant operation at the Houston Methodist Hospital in Texas on May 22.

The transplantation procedure has been performed on James Boysen, a software developer from Austin aged 55. Boysen suffered from cancer and recurrent treatments severely wounded his head.

Boysen underwent a craniofacial tissue transplant at the same time as a kidney and pancreas transplant on May 22 at the hospital in Texas.

The Food and Drug Administration’s voting in favor of a drug aimed to help combat female sexual dysfunction marks a turning point in women’s sexual health.

The 18 to 6 vote on Thursday has led the dream of a pill to treat lack of sexual desire in women much closer to reality. Sprout Pharmaceuticals, owner of flibanserin, is quite positive that the agency will approve in mid-August.

The recommendation has finally put an end to a long debate over the issue to which level female sexual dysfunction is genuine problem. Debate also involved questions, including whether drugs should be taken to treat the problem and why there is no such drug for women when many drugs are available in the case of men.

Students from Vanderbilt University in Tennessee have created gold nano-spirals that will serve as the best countermeasure for counterfeiting.

According to the students, the extremely small spirals made of gold will serve as a potentially efficient information security method to prevent identity theft at a low cost.

The nano-sized spirals are roughly the size of a dime shrunk down 6 million times. They possess unique optical properties and are invisible to the naked eye and.

The students said that these spirals could possibly be added to identity cards, currency, and other valuables to secure information.

The students fabricated the gold archimedian spirals and subjected them to ultrafast lasers in order to characterize their optical properties.

A new study published last week in the peer-reviewed journal Memoirs of the Queensland Museum Nature has revealed that mouse-like creatures Dusky Antechinus continue to have sex with each other till they don’t die.

The Mainland Dusky Antechinus, which are found in southeastern Australia, already face the threat of extinction due to loss of habitat and feral pests. They have been elevated from sub-species to a distinct species. Now the researchers fear that their suicidal sex frenzies will drive them extinct.

The new species are types of antechinus, a bristly haired, mouselike marsupial that eats spiders and insects. Every year, antechinus males fight each other so that they can have sex with as many females as possible before dying.

According to scientists, an ancient bird could come up with new information regarding life during the age of dinosaurs. It is believed the bird existed in the southern hemisphere 115 million years ago.

The bird had a tail resembling a ribbon; it is a characteristic, which is thought to be present only in some species of the northern hemisphere. The Cretaceous bird’s fossils were found in modern-day Brazil; however, during that time, the landmasses were assembled into a pair of supercontinents, called Laurasia, North America and Asia, and Gondwana, consisting of South America.

A bat that was found hanging from the basket of a motorized wheelchair at Wal-Mart at 10224 Coors Bypass NW in Albuquerque has tested positive for rabies.

According to the state Department of Health, the bat was found at about 9 am. It was found on Tuesday, when a customer was at the checkout counter at the Wal-Mart supercenter, which is located just northwest of Cottonwood Mall. According to health officials, a person who assisted in removing the bat from the cart was attacked by the bat and bitten; it is said that the person will start receiving a series of vaccinations for rabies, which could be lethal if not treated.