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Attention, chocolate lovers: You may not be able to help yourselves. Swiss and British scientists have linked the widespread love of chocolate to a chemical "signature" that may be programmed into our metabolic systems.
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Kuru
Kuru: A slowly progressive fatal disease of the brain (a form of subacute spongiform encephalopathy) due to an infectious agent (a virus or subviral particle called a prion) transmitted among people in Papua New Guinea by ritual canabalism. The discovery of the basis of Kuru is one of the more interesting detective stories of 20th-century medicine.