Discovery

Look at the video! The team of doctors from the Heart Hospital in London, joining with the computer animators from Glassworks, have created a model of heart–a virtual heart–that can be used by heart specialist. NewScientist reported that this super-realistic computer model makes it possible to explore the heart’s anatomy in ways not possible in [...]

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 [...]

It was revealed in Nature Neuroscience that the high level action video games increase a player’s real-world vision. But Daphne Bavelier, professor of brain and cognitive sciences at the University of Rochester, found that very practiced action gamer have an increase in their ability to discern slight differences in shades of gray as 58 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]