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Cells That Make People Fat Discovered

Comments Yessi Pratiwi — October 6, 2008 / 1:46 pm

During the past 20 years or so, obesity has become a world wide problem. It affects those people who fail to look after their health, especially their habit in eating, since obesity is intimately linked to food and fat. Again and again, there the word goes : fat. Why fat makes people have obesity? [...]

Camera Lens Powered With Water

Comments Yessi Pratiwi — September 24, 2008 / 6:29 pm

New camera lens found! Powered with water, with smarter and lighter sound and surface tension. What a great invention. The design and testing process has been completed by the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. It was reported that the lense will be able to capture 250 pictures per second. Waw! Beside its more efficient power, ofcourse [...]

Metabolic Syndrome is Intimately Linked To Toxic Plastic, Research Found

Comments Yessi Pratiwi — September 7, 2008 / 2:58 pm

Based on a laboratory study using fresh human fat tissues, researcher from University of Cincinnati (UC) managed to find the implication of toxic plastic to metabolic syndrome in human. It was clearly stated that adiponectin, a hormon that responsible for regulating insulin sensitivity in the body and puts people at a substantially higher risk for metabolic [...]

Revealing How The First Stars In The Universe Came Into Existence

Comments Yessi Pratiwi — August 1, 2008 / 3:25 pm

Our universe began with the Big Bang about 13 billion years ago, and that soon after that event, matter began to form as small dust grains and gases. This is what our researchers believe for years. Recently, it was reported that researchers has taken the study of primordial star formation to a new level [...]

Stem Cells Developed From Four-cell Embryo

16 comments Yessi Pratiwi — July 21, 2008 / 3:09 pm

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 reported. [...]

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

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

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 kills [...]

Study Found Lower Death Rate in Coffee Drinker

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 [...]

IBM Create Its Cools 3-D Computer Chips With Water

It was revealed in Science Daily that, in IBM’s labs, the researchers are about creating a design that promises to extend Moore’s Law into the next decade and significantly reduce the energy consumed by data centers. How could it be ? The scientist unveiled a powerful and efficient technique to cool 3-D chip stacks with [...]

UFO : Does The 70 Years Research Pay Off?

Electro-gravitics research seeking the nature of gravity and its control has reached a stage where profound implications for the entire human race have emerged. Perhaps the most startling and immediate involve aircraft, guided missiles, atmospheric and deep space flights. If only one line of research achieves the goal and it now seems plausible that this has [...]

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