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The First, a Medical Treatment Made Dog Has Special Bone and Paw

Start discussionjackstar harry on July 24th, 2007

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 […]

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Transgenic Pigs Developed to Fight Alzheimer’s

Start discussionjackstar harry on July 15th, 2007

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 […]

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Scientists Made Viruses Destroying Bacteria

Start discussionjackstar harry on July 14th, 2007

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. […]

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Scientists Showed an Antibiotic Fighting Cancer

Start discussionjackstar harry on July 10th, 2007

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 […]

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A Scan Combination detects Alzheimer’s Symptoms Earlier

Start discussionjackstar harry on July 6th, 2007

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 […]

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Skin Cells Substitute Embryonic Stem Cells?

Start discussionjackstar harry on July 1st, 2007

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 […]

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Adiponectin Reduces Inflammation in The Blood Vessels of Mice

Start discussionjackstar harry on July 1st, 2007

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 […]

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Storing Information in a Manmade Network of Neurons

Start discussionjackstar harry on June 29th, 2007

It was not talking about storing some digitalized informations in an IC (Integrated Circuit). However, it was talking about storing informations in an artificial culture of live neurons. Recently, The scientists from Tel Aviv University did it.
They said that it is a step to create the integration of living material into memory chips.
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Research on The Cause of Anxiety

Start discussionjackstar harry on June 25th, 2007

There are people have inappropriate behavior due to their over anxiety as their response to something that probable threat them, even a small one. Maybe we are too! But, anyway, currently, there are researchers try to uncover the reason behind this.
At least, researchers from European Molecular Biology Laboratory ini Monterotondo, Italy, have uncovered mice’s […]

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New Protein’s Function is Discovered, Babies Eye Damage May be Prevented

Start discussionjackstar harry on June 23rd, 2007

Now, doctors have possibility new threatments for premature babies born with their eyes have not finished growing. IGFBP-3 have just known as the responsible protein to this case, even thought it is not new discovery protein.
By increasing the protein to normal levels in premature babies, the babies would have blood vessel growth healthier. Hence, […]

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