Discovery

During the 1918 pandemic outbreak, two mutations in the H1N1 avian flu virus were critical for viral transmission in humans that killed at least 50 million people. Ram Sasisekharan, the Underwood Prescott Professor of Biological Engineering and Health Sciences and Technology mentioned that, two mutations dramatically change the HA binding affinity to receptors [...]

Tissue Engineering from Yale School of Medicine reported a new finding about combination of bone marrow removal with injection of a hormone at targeted locations in the body. Currently available treatment requires surgery and artificial materials. Besides, it often resultsan imperfect outcomes. In other hand, people need an ideal approach to create new bone [...]

It was published in Science Daily that Penn State researchers have a proof-of-concept device that can split water and produce recoverable hydrogen. Thomas E. Mallouk, the DuPont Professor of Materials Chemistry and Physics said, if we can achieve catalytic systems with 10 to 15 percent solar conversion efficiency, water photolysis would provide a clean source of [...]

It was revealed in Guardian Unlimited, in 2006 about a finding of biological material in red rain that was happened in Kerala, India. Until now, this findings still become a mystery, there is still no specific proof that the red rain was a real alien’s DNA. On 25 July, 2001, blood-red rain fell over the Kerala [...]

It was revealed in ScienceDaily that researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a strategy to capture, store and eventually recycle carbon. It is known that two-thirds of global carbon emissions are created by much smaller polluters — automobiles, transportation vehicles and distributed industrial power generation applications (e.g., diesel power generators). So, Georgia Tech [...]

Young women usually take birth control pills for contraceptive purposes. But, there is such a worry, whether consuming this pills can cause cancer. But recently, Oxford scientists explained to The Lancet that using oral contraceptives for ten years reduces the risk of developing ovarian cancer before the age of 75 from 12 down to 8 per [...]

ScienceDaily reported, Dr Gordon Dougal, a director of Virulite – a medical research company based in Newton Aycliffe, County Durham, successfully created a new infra-red device to help dementia patients. Well, how it works? A safe level of infra red light on the human brain. Scientist believed that it is effective to treat cold sores– a [...]

Influenza, also known as Flu, contagious infection primarily of the respiratory tract. It is caused by a virus transmitted from one person to another in droplets coughed or sneezed into the air, characterized by coldlike symptoms plus chills, fever, headaches, muscle aches, and fatigue. The influenza virus has a relatively simple structure. A lipid (fatty) envelope [...]

Scientists at Rockefeller University and the Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center have pinned down a molecule on the surface of human cells. They held the study in a mission that the research will open up the field of virology to an entirely new suite of possibilities and paves the way for future drug research. At the [...]

Parkinson’s disease can cause muscles to become rigid and limbs to tremble uncontrollably. It attacks people around three in a hundred of people aged over 65. The loss of a particular type of brain cell called dopaminergic (DA) neurons in the part of the brain called the substantia nigra will cause this desease. Now, a team [...]