Friday 4 June 2010

Link of the week- acupuncture and adenosine

Hi. Welcome to weirdbeautiful.

First link-of-the-week today is (again) to a medical, rather than a wildlife story. This article talks about research into how/if acupuncture works, concluding that acupuncture needles release adenosine (a compound known to reduce inflammation and pain) into the tissue around the needles. I don't know enough about the subject to comment on this, but I thought it was/is an interesting story -
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/21/20100530/thl-acupuncture-relief-link-identified-d831572.html

The second link is both weird and beautiful- a micrographic image of daisy pollen-
http://www.micronaut.ch/popup/show/15/137

(actually, this one image in a gallery of pollen images)

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