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Energy-burning Brown Fat In Mice Created

Comments Yessi Pratiwi — July 31, 2009 / 11:36 pm

Brown fat is known as a certain tissue in mammals that helps warm the body. It is found in patches along the neck and between the shoulders of newborn mammals, including humans, and in adults of hibernating animals. Recently, a study that has been conducted by Dana-Farber Cancer Institute has successfully created an energy burning brown [...]

New Chemical Weapon In Poison Frogs’ Arsenal Found

Comments Yessi Pratiwi — June 10, 2009 / 6:26 pm

In the news reported by ScienceDaily, June 9th, it was mentioned that there has been found a surprising chemical weapon used by some Amazonian poison frogs. The poisen itself identified as never been known before, called as the N-methyldecahydroquinolines. As I read on some sources, it is reported that N-methyldecahydroquinolines known to beat the Class of Alkaloids. [...]

Music For Heart Disease Healing

2 comments Yessi Pratiwi — April 17, 2009 / 9:42 am

Heart disease known to be number one killer in the US, and also the major cause of disability. Researches that related to the cure of heart disease have been widely published. You know, in the report of DOI, it was reported that listen to the music can be the way of heart disease healing. Well, i [...]

Flash of Light For Parkinson’s Treatment

Comments Yessi Pratiwi — March 20, 2009 / 8:29 pm

Scientists believe that parkinson is intimately linked to brain, where it occurs when a group of cells in an area of the brain called the substantia nigra begin to malfunction and die. Parkinson happens in the form of movement disorder that is chronic and progressive that can be worsen over time.  You know, nearly one [...]

First Virtual Reality Headset Has Been Developed

Comments Yessi Pratiwi — March 5, 2009 / 12:42 pm

What does it feel when you can interact with an environment or the world you’ve imagined for so long? Do you have thoughts when the world in your dream, or the place you want to visit are now no longer imagination, but real?  Now, with the first virtual reality headset, it is no longer impossible to [...]

Trauma Pod, Robots That Do Surgery

The maturity of technology has entered a new phase. This time, it is not impossible anymore for soldiers to have the first surgery help, eventhough the closest field hospital is more than an hour away. A non-profit lab SRI International, based in Menlo Park, California claimed that the device called Trauma Pod will enable soldiers [...]

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 [...]

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