Discovery

Researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies developed a simple system that allows them to transplant human hepatocytes into immunodeficient mice, which can now be used to test how drugs affect the liver. Karl-Dimiter Bissig, M.D. Ph.D., a postdoctoral researcher in the Laboratory of Genetics said, the mice will be an invaluable tool to advance [...]

People who exercise self control in some way, such as dieting or trying not to look at or think about something, will tend to make more impulse purchases if given the opportunity, a study from the Journal of Consumer Research reported. Opportunities for impulse purchasing have increased with the proliferation of ATMs, shopping on the Internet, [...]

Homes are going high tech as we grow older, it makes our life’s easier . Elizabeth Mynatt, interactive computing expert at Georgia Tech in Atlanta are developing a system called the cook’s collage. It records the images so if we get distracted by the kids when we’re cooking, we can take a quick look [...]

No sweat, no sweet. Maybe this is a suitable phrase to describe a very hard work to find a new method in identifying diabetes. They worked together : an endocrinologists, engineers, and microbiologists. They worked a projection of light into the skin in order to measure the presence of advanced glycation endproducts. As the scientist said, [...]

Autism is a kind of neurodevelopmental disorder. It is a complex brain disorder that inhibits a person’s ability to communicate and develop social relationships. Researchers from the RIKEN Brain Science Institute in Japan demonstrated that mice lacking the protein CADPS2 exhibited autistic-like characteristics. They show that mice lacking CADPS2, which is encoded by a gene in [...]