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Stem Cells Activated in Mammalia’s Brain

Start discussionYessi Pratiwi on July 25th, 2008

Research on adult stem cells has recently generated a great deal of excitement. Scientists have found adult stem cells in many more tissues than they once thought possible.
An adult stem cell is an undifferentiated cell found among differentiated cells in a tissue or organ, can renew itself, and can differentiate to yield the major […]

Stem Cells Developed From Four-cell Embryo

Start discussionYessi Pratiwi on July 21st, 2008

The development of stem cells technology have been well implemented, for it has the remarkable potential to develop into many different cell types in the body.
Now, for the first time, the world scientists have succeeded in developing human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) from a single cell, or blastomere, of a 4-cell stage embryo, ScienceDaily […]

Potential New Drug Candidates To Combat ‘Bird Flu’ Found?

One replyYessi Pratiwi on July 7th, 2008

Recently, a team of UC San Diego scientists have isolated more than two dozen promising and novel compounds from which new “designer drugs” might be developed to combat this disease. In some cases, the compounds appeared to be equal or stronger inhibitors than currently available anti-flu remedies.

Rommie Amaro, a postdoctoral fellow in chemistry […]

New Invention That Kills Foodborne Pathogens in Minutes

Start discussionYessi Pratiwi on June 29th, 2008

A new technology to reduce contamination of dangerous bacteria on food has been developed by the researchers at University of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc,. For years, foodborne pathogens known to be responsible for 76 million illnesses every year (ScienceDaily).

The technology has been patented by U.S. Food and Drug Administration, as antimicrobial that […]

Study Found Lower Death Rate in Coffee Drinker

Start discussionYessi Pratiwi on June 17th, 2008

In modern life, drinking coffee has become a lifestyle. It is now playing an important role to our life.
Recently, a new study find that regular coffee drinking (up to 6 cups per day) is not associated with increased deaths in either men or women. In fact, both caffeinated and decaffeinated coffee consumption is associated with […]

Food Dyes May Protect Against Cancer, Research Found

Start discussionYessi Pratiwi on June 1st, 2008

It was revealed in ScientistAmerica that among synthetic food dyes’s effect, protecting people from cancer may one of the good side.
Gayle Orner, leader of the research at Oregon State University in Corvallis mentioned, “The public perception is that food dyes are bad, but some of them may have good points as well”.

In the […]

Brain Disease Treated With Therapeutic Cloning

Start discussionYessi Pratiwi on May 28th, 2008

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 […]

The Research of Nose Spray Anthrax Vaccine

Start discussionYessi Pratiwi on May 7th, 2008

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. […]

Transplanted Cells Could ‘Catch’ Parkinson’s?

Start discussionYessi Pratiwi on May 4th, 2008

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 […]

The Asian Source of The Annual Flu Epidemic Revealed

Start discussionYessi Pratiwi on May 4th, 2008

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 […]

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