Discovery

Barry Daly, M.D., professor of radiology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore, developing a new technology called Computed tomography (CT) autopsies system. CT is recently used as a tool for civilian medical examiners’ autopsies in the United States. It has the potential to replace conventional autopsy in determining the cause of [...]

Japanese already use cell phones to shop, read novels, exchange e-mail, search for restaurants and take video clips. Now, they can take a university course. Cyber University, the nation’s only university to offer all classes only on the Internet, began offering a class on mobile phones Wednesday on the mysteries of the pyramids. This makes them [...]

Recently, the researchers at the Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center in collaboration with researchers in Finland suggests that the presence or absence of two proteins may be important markers for long-term survival in some breast-cancer patients. A proteins called ErbB-4, is important for the growth and differentiation of several types of cells in the body. [...]

Genes play a significant role in heart function, and may partly determine who develops the most common form of heart failure. More than one-fourth of adults over age 45 have abnormalities in the way their heart fills with blood and are at significantly increased risk for premature death. Data from a 15-year period show that the [...]

Brain is the organ of the body that performs the function of memory. We can still improve and expand our mind, it doesn’t matter how brainy we are or how much education we’ve had. Getting old doesn’t have to mean worsening memory, slower reactions and fuzzy thinking, because MIT researchers and colleagues are managed to find [...]

Assuming that food-based natural antioxidants are the active therapeutic agents, which foods are the best sources of total antioxidants? The scientist in Taiwan Gow-Chin Yen and Chin-Lin Hsu, point out that large amounts of flavonoids and phenolic acids occur in fruits, vegetables, nuts and plant-based beverages such as coffee, tea, and wine. As it is known, flavonoids [...]

Anthrax happens in humans and pigs, the potentially deadly disease which is caused by a toxin secreted by the spore-forming bacterium Bacillus anthracis. When anthrax affects humans, it is usually due to an occupational exposure to infected animals or their products. As it is known, Anthrax infection can occur in three forms: cutaneous (skin), inhalation, and [...]

A team of researchers with the US Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of California at Berkeley have created the first fully-functional radio from a single carbon nanotube, which makes it by several orders of magnitude the smallest radio ever made. They called it nanotube radio. This nanotube works as [...]

Confidence is generally regarded as one of the most attractive qualities one can possess. It’s tough to conjure the confidence we want, when we don’t feel good about the way we look. By now, you have probably seen the commercials pieces about weight loss pill. They are claimed as the best pill to get [...]

More than 16 million Americans have diabetes, the sixth leading cause of death by disease in the United States. Nowadays, there is a new option to diabetes patients who cannot live without insulin injections. The need of insulin will be covered with the insulin produced from a transplant of islet cells. This is a kind [...]