Discovery

Lorenz Studer of the Sloan-Kettering Institute in New York, US, led the research of therapeutic cloning in mice, found that all six mice that had been given grafts of neurons derived from their own skin cells got significantly better, scoring well on tests of movement. The mice used in the research were back to health after [...]

Do you think that ghost imaging is impossible? Well, US researchers have shown that the “ghost imaging” technique could help satellites take snapshots through clouds or smoke. Some researchers from University of Maryland, US Army Research Laboratory, have now taken the first ghost images of an opaque object - a toy soldier (see image, [...]

It was reported in the ScienceDaily that the world’s largest software maker—Microsoft–launched a free software application called WorldWide Telescope on Monday that will allow everyone from space novices to astronomy professors to easily explore galaxies, star systems and distant planets. It stitches together 12 terabytes, allowing users to zoom in and out of galaxies that are [...]

In recent years, anthrax has become a top choice as a biological warfare agent, according to the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD), because its spores can easily become airborne. Early studies show that a new mucosal vaccine against anthrax has the potential to provide military personnel with more effective and efficient protection against a “popular” bioweapon. [...]

Two teams, Jeffrey Kordower of Rush University Medical Center in Chicago.and Patrik Brundin of the Wallenberg Neuroscience Center in Lund, Sweden, develop advanced therapies based on neurons grown from stem cells. The diseased cells in Parkinson contain structures called Lewy bodies, accumulations of a protein called ?-synuclein that are a hallmark of Parkinson’s. This is a [...]

It was written in NewScientist that for decades, hundreds of labs throughout the world have sent flu samples to the World Health Organization’s Global Influenza Surveillance Network, using a venerable test for similarity called haemagglutinin inhibition. The analysis was objected to chart immunological changes in the virus that might signal a severe flu season, and to [...]