Discovery

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 [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

I was always thinking that women can control their hunger better than men. Well, I have many friends–boys–who can not do something before they eat something. While women, we can control our hunger, and stay doing something till finish before get meals. It is rare to see a woman eats 5 times a day, but it [...]

Calcium, the most abundant mineral in the human body, has several important functions. More than 99% of total body calcium is stored in the bones and teeth where it functions to support their structure. What about Calcium in plants? We know that plants need sixteen chemical elements that are essential for its growth and survival, [...]

You know, when I saw someone who have problem with their weight, OK lets say : obesity, I thought that it was all about habit. Bad eating habit, less exercise. I never think that gene also has a signifficant impact to the obesity. A research by an international team of scientists with German participation through [...]

In the previous research held by Departments of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology and Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, and Department of Cancer Biology, Dana–Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, the induced alignment of membrane proteins has been used for NMR structure determination. Yet recently, Arizona State University researchers reveal for the first time the three-dimensional character of [...]