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EndoBarrier, The Gastric ‘condoms’ For Obese

Comments Yessi Pratiwi — February 20, 2009 / 11:55 pm

People who are dangerously in obese now have an option for the obesity solution, instead of gastric surgery. GI Dynamics of Lexington, Massachusetts, now developing an EndoBarrier, an impermeable sleeve in capsule form that inserted via mouth using an endoscope. Before, it has been tested in animals and successfully reduced weight and rapidly brings type II [...]

Build A Synthetic Brain?

Nanotechnology seems to be the solution for human problem now. Wheter it is a cancer, tumor, heart monitoring, or even a synthetic brain. After the scientist in USA–led by Professor Alice Parker, University of Southern California–informed that they are attempting to build neurons from carbon nanotubes to emulate human brain function, ScienceDaily yesterday reported that “synthetic [...]

Genetic Roots of Synaesthesia Discovered

After the first cases of touch-emotion synaesthesia discovered in NewScientist last year, recently the regions of our DNA that wire some people to “see” sounds have been discovered. NewScientist reported,  Julian Asher at Imperial College London, and colleagues from the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics at the University of Oxford took genetic samples from 196 [...]

Beware of DNA Test

Comments Yessi Pratiwi — February 3, 2009 / 10:38 pm

DNA known to be the hereditary material in humans and almost all other organisms.  It works as the main information source of our body molecules. It consists of different codes–this is the reason–why every body must have a unique pattern of the code,  except families. Different person come with different codes, this is the basic [...]

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