Add Years to Your Life
May 2, 2008
Researchers have developed a new biological marker that represents the age of a body’s bones.
It reveals that the speed of physical aging is strongly influenced by genetics.
Christened the osseographic score (OSS), this new marker can be used by doctors as a scientific tool for predicting a person’s general functioning and lifespan, says Tel Aviv University scientist Dr. Leonid Kalichman, an instructor at The Stanley Steyer School of Health Professions.
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Ghostly Latest Creation:Transparent Fish
February 10, 2008
Scientists have created ghostly transparent fish to make human biology clearer. The feat has been achieved with zebrafish are genetically similar to humans and are already in widespread use as models for human biology and disease.
The new see through fish allows scientists to directly view its internal organs, and observe processes like the spread of tumours and blood production after bone-marrow transplant in a living organism, say researchers at Children’s Hospital Boston.
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Life on Mars? Amazing photos from Nasa probe reveal mystery figure on Red Planet
January 23, 2008
Perched on a rock, she could be waiting for a bus.
But if so, she could be in for an awfully long wait.
This photo of what looks remarkably like a female figure with her arm outstretched, was taken on Mars.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, it has set the Internet abuzz with claims that there really is life on the red planet.
Others may well feel that it is simply an optical illusion caused by a landscape.
The image was among many sent back to Earth by Spirit, Nasa’s Mars explorer vehicle which landed there four years ago.
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Sleeping pill helped my girl wake up from a SIX year coma
January 18, 2008
After her teenage daughter slipped into a coma, Thelma Pickard never lost hope of recovery.
Six years on, the devoted mother is daring to believe her hopes may be answered.
Daughter Amy, now 23, has begun to show signs of life after being given an over-the-counter sleeping pill.
Last night Mrs Pickard said the ‘old sparkle’ returned to her daughter’s eyes when she was given a pill and described the change as ‘amazing’.
Until last month she remained seemingly lifeless in bed in a nursing home.
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Chinese scientists have succeeded in implanting electrodes in the brain of a pigeon
December 22, 2007
Chinese scientists have succeeded in implanting electrodes in the brain of a pigeon to remotely control the bird’s flight, state media said.
Xinhua News Agency said the scientists at the Robot Engineering Technology Research Center at Shandong University of Science and Technology in eastern China used the micro electrodes to command the bird to fly right or left, and up or down.
The implants stimulated different areas of the pigeon’s brain according to electronic signals sent by the scientists via computer, mirroring natural signals generated by the brain, Xinhua quoted chief scientist Su Xuecheng as saying.
It was the first such successful experiment on a pigeon in the world, said Su, who conducted a similar successful experiment on mice in 2005.
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Scientists detect guilty genes behind obesity
December 21, 2007
It?s in the Genes- yes! Scientists have finally found out the reason behind the problem which is affecting more and more people worldwide- Obesity. According to a study done by a group of scientists at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University, certain genes are responsible for storing fats in cells thereby making people prone to obesity and associated problems.
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Cloned cats glow red in the dark
December 14, 2007
Cat’s eyes are no longer the only things about them that glow in the dark, after scientists cloned a fluorescent feline.
South Korean Kong Il-Keun’s team cloned cats after modifying a gene to change their skin colour.
The two Turkish Angora cats now glow red when exposed to ultraviolet light. The scientists believe the process could be used to develop treatments for human genetic diseases and could help reproduce rare animals.
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