Biotech

Storm, name of a Belgian shepherd dog, now has implant bone made of titanium alloy and paw made of carbon-fiber. Soon, the dog’s activities are hoped back as indication the succesful of surgery led by Noel Fitzpatrick of Farnam, Surrey, because it was the first experience in a dog. This medical treatment was applied to [...]

Currently, scientiests at the universities in Denmark is waiting for “special” cloned pigs that is predicted will be born next month, August! The animal models, i.e. as cloned pigs with genetically modified, were developed in the effort to discover medicine of Alzheimer’s disease. Scientiests from the University of Copenhagen and the University of Arhus collaborated in [...]

If you are so busy or tired then leave your teeth does not brushed for 1 or several days (weew!), please be worry. There may exist colonies of potentially harmful bacteria called Biofilms! However, recently, a team researchers have made viruses able to attack and destroy Biofilms. It were engineered by the scientist from synthetic biology. [...]

Scientists from the German Cancer Research Center have found that an antibiotic called “griseofulvin” able to lead cancer cells to cell death. Griseofulvin is an antibiotic that is ussualy used to treat fungal infections of the skin! Wow… The scientists identified that the antibiotic is an inhibitor of centrosomal clustering. By this discovery, they suggested that [...]

Alzheimer’s disease is a disease that very difficult to detect early. A doctor suggests patients are suffered the disease untill the doctor find that they get mild memory loss which it then tend to worst conditions. However, researchers at the University of Pennsylvania had claimed that their diagnosis method could detect Alzheimer’s disease symptoms earlier than [...]

Research on human embryonic stem cells involves ethical issues since it will harming the embryos. The embryonic stem cells become important due to its potential result in treatment diseases such as Parkinson. Skin Cells into Embryonic Stem Cells Recently, scientiests in the US and Japan could change mouse skin cells into what appear to be embryonic [...]

Researchers at Jefferson Medical College have shown that in mice given a protein called adiponectin, infammation in the blood vessels was reduced. They said that it is a ncessary step before going to humans. Adiponectin is the most abundant protein found in the bloodstream that originates from fat tissue. Low levels of the protein are associated [...]