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Scientists Accurately PREDICT AGE With SALIVA Sample !!!
Scientists Accurately PREDICT AGE With SALIVA Sample !!!
Scientists accurately predict age with saliva sample

Self-conscious about your age? Careful where you spit. UCLA geneticists now can use saliva to reveal how old you are.

The June 22 advance online edition of the Public Library of Science (PLoS) ONE publishes the findings, which offer a m
News Articles and Discussion   bio_man   685   12 years ago
Pandora's Dark Mystery
Pandora's Dark Mystery


From the European Space Agency and the European Southern Observatory. This video explores recent observations of the galaxy cluster Abell 2744, nicknamed Pandora's Cluster. Scientists have pieced together the cluster's complex and violent history using telescopes in space and on the ground, includin
News Articles and Discussion   bio_man   727   12 years ago
Monkeys get glow-in-the-dark eyes
Monkeys get glow-in-the-dark eyes


A gene therapy treatment in monkeys may pave the way to curing the blind.

Treating blindness has always been an appealing target for gene therapy due to the eye being one of the few sites in the body e
News Articles and Discussion   bio_man   674   12 years ago
A GREAT STEP Towards AUGMENTED HUMANS And Animals: Now, Virtually Any Specific
A GREAT STEP Towards AUGMENTED HUMANS And Animals: Now, Virtually Any Specific
Genome editing, a next step in genetic therapy, corrects hemophilia in animals

Using an innovative gene therapy technique called genome editing that hones in on the precise location of mutated DNA, scientists have treated the blood clotting disorder hemophilia in mice. This is the first time that genome editing, which pre
News Articles and Discussion   bio_man   1048   12 years ago
Evolution invented the screw-and-nut mechanism and rotating wheels millions of y
Evolution invented the screw-and-nut mechanism and rotating wheels millions of y
Beetles beat us to the screw and nut

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The versatile weevil has screwy legs

Weevils are screwed up. Their legs are, anyway. The beetles are the fir
News Articles and Discussion   bio_man   714   12 years ago
The Loudest Penis Of The World !!!
The Loudest Penis Of The World !!!
Singing penis wins insect the loudest animal title

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The lesser water boatman (Micronecta scholtzi) has quite a claim to fame - researchers say his 'singing penis' makes him the loudest animal in the world, relative to its size.

Re
News Articles and Discussion   bio_man   971   12 years ago
Slavery and Rebellion Against It Were Invented By Evolution Way Before Humans
Slavery and Rebellion Against It Were Invented By Evolution Way Before Humans
The rebellion of the ant slaves



Humans aren't the only species that have had to deal with the issue of slavery. Some species of ants also abduct the young of others, forcing them into
News Articles and Discussion   bio_man   705   12 years ago
Excess Of FAT And SUGAR Causes CELLS To SUICIDE !!!
Excess Of FAT And SUGAR Causes CELLS To SUICIDE !!!
Surprising culprits behind cell death from fat and sugar overload



Under normal conditions (left), the small nucleolar RNAs involved with cell death are not activated and are not visible around the nuclei of these mou
News Articles and Discussion   bio_man   707   12 years ago
The Secrets Of Naked Mole Rat's Remarkable Longevity And Its Resistance To Disea
The Secrets Of Naked Mole Rat's Remarkable Longevity And Its Resistance To Disea
Naked mole rat's genome 'blueprint' revealed

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The mole rats spend their entire lives underground

The industrious but unlovel
News Articles and Discussion   bio_man   744   12 years ago
VERY BAD NEWS: Scientists Discover First GONORRHEA Strain Resistant To ALL AVAIL
VERY BAD NEWS: Scientists Discover First GONORRHEA Strain Resistant To ALL AVAIL
Scientists discover first gonorrhea strain resistant to all available antibiotics

An international research team has discovered a strain of gonorrhea resistant to all currently available antibiotics. This new strain is likely to transform a common and once easily treatable infection into a global threat to public health.
News Articles and Discussion   bio_man   613   12 years ago
SYNTHETIC TOOTH Has Been Successfully TRANSPLANTED Into The Jaw Of A Mouse !!!
SYNTHETIC TOOTH Has Been Successfully TRANSPLANTED Into The Jaw Of A Mouse !!!
Artificially grown tooth transplanted into mouse



It may be time to redefine the concept of false teeth. A tooth grown from embryonic cells has been successfully transplanted into the jaw of a mouse. The transpl
News Articles and Discussion   bio_man   817   12 years ago
Gregor Mendel
Gregor Mendel
Gregor Johann Mendel (July 20, 1822 – January 6, 1884) was an Augustinian priest and scientist, who gained posthumous fame as the figurehead of the new science of genetics for his study of the inheritance of certain traits in pea plants. Mendel showed that the inheritance of these traits follows particular laws, which were later named after him. The significance of Mendel's work
News Articles and Discussion   nakrul   908   12 years ago
Breakthrough In Quantum Computing: High Magnetic Fields Increase Quantum Coheren
Breakthrough In Quantum Computing: High Magnetic Fields Increase Quantum Coheren
Breakthrough in quantum computing: Resisting 'quantum bug'

Scientists have taken the next major step toward quantum computing, which will use quantum mechanics to revolutionize the way information is processed.

Quantum computers will capitalize on the mind-bending properties of quantum particles t
News Articles and Discussion   bio_man   782   12 years ago
Bone Remodeling and Modeling
Bone Remodeling and Modeling
This second film in the bone biology series illustrates how bone forms (modeling) and reforms (remodeling) over time.

News Articles and Discussion   bio_man   970   12 years ago
The Almost LIMITLESS Possibilities of BIOLOGY In The FUTURE
The Almost LIMITLESS Possibilities of BIOLOGY In The FUTURE


J. Craig Venter is a biologist most known for his contributions, in 2001, of sequencing the first draft human genome and in 2007 for the first complete diploid human genome. In 2010 he and his team announced success in constructing the first synthetic bacterial cell. His present work focuses on creating syn
News Articles and Discussion   bio_man   695   12 years ago
INVISIBILITY To Visible Light Achieved For The FIRST TIME !!!
INVISIBILITY To Visible Light Achieved For The FIRST TIME !!!
New invisibility cloak hides objects from human view

For the first time, scientists have devised an invisibility cloak material that hides objects from detection using light that is visible to humans. The new device is a leap forward in cloaking materials, according to a report in the ACS journal Nano Letters.
News Articles and Discussion   bio_man   657   12 years ago
Living Old Enough To Be A GRANDPARENT Gave A Crucial ADVANTAGE To Homo Sapiens O
Living Old Enough To Be A GRANDPARENT Gave A Crucial ADVANTAGE To Homo Sapiens O
Grandparents connected to success of human race

If you looked around at your family some 40,000 years ago, you would not have seen grandparents as the likelihood of a person passing their 30th birthday was slim. However, according to new research reported in Scientific American, 30,000 years ago things began to change and
News Articles and Discussion   bio_man   676   12 years ago
Electric dolphins: cetaceans with a seventh sense
Electric dolphins: cetaceans with a seventh sense


I sing the dolphin electric

One extra sense isn't quite enough for Guiana dolphins. In addition to echolocation, they can sense the electric fields of their prey – the first time this has been seen in true mammals.

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News Articles and Discussion   padre   967   12 years ago
GENEROSITY Emerges From Evolution Of Cooperation And Social Uncertainty
GENEROSITY Emerges From Evolution Of Cooperation And Social Uncertainty
Study: Generosity emerges from evolution of cooperation

Imagine you're dining at a restaurant in a city you're visiting for the first –– and, most likely the last –– time. Chances are slim to none that you'll ever see your server again, so if you wanted to shave a few dollars off your tab by not leaving a tip, you cou
News Articles and Discussion   bio_man   959   12 years ago
IMPORTANT RECEPTOR Of The Immune System ( TLR4 ) Can Be Used To Fight SUPERBUGS
IMPORTANT RECEPTOR Of The Immune System ( TLR4 ) Can Be Used To Fight SUPERBUGS
A major step forward in fighting superbugs



New research has identified a novel mechanism by which humans can defend themselves against the well known hospital superbug, Clostridium difficile.  The study provides us wi
News Articles and Discussion   bio_man   1038   12 years ago
Good News: BACTERIA Ate Large Part Of The OIL SPILL ( Gulf of Mexico )
Good News: BACTERIA Ate Large Part Of The OIL SPILL ( Gulf of Mexico )
WHOI study reports microbes consumed oil in Gulf slick at unexpected rates

More than a year after the largest oil spill in history, perhaps the dominant lingering question about the Deepwater Horizon spill is, "What happened to the oil?" Now, in the first published study to explain the role of microbes in breaki
News Articles and Discussion   bio_man   678   12 years ago
A DRUG That Erases BAD-MEMORIES But Keeps Other Memories Intact !!!
A DRUG That Erases BAD-MEMORIES But Keeps Other Memories Intact !!!

At the University of Montreal, researchers have found a drug that seems able to decrease a person’s recall of a bad memory. It’s not exactly Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, but it’s a pretty remarkable step down the road to activ
News Articles and Discussion   bio_man   794   12 years ago
The MULTIVERSE Theory Is Being TESTED
The MULTIVERSE Theory Is Being TESTED
First observational test of the 'multiverse'

The theory that our universe is contained inside a bubble, and that multiple alternative universes exist inside their own bubbles – making up the 'multiverse' – is, for the first time, being tested by physicists.

Two research papers published
News Articles and Discussion   bio_man   792   12 years ago
Why Small And Big CATS ( Lions, Tigers, Etc ) BITE Female's Scruff Of The Neck W
Why Small And Big CATS ( Lions, Tigers, Etc ) BITE Female's Scruff Of The Neck W
Why Does a Male Cat Bite a Female's Neck While Mating?

Many people find this behaviour (along with the fact that female cats shriek) alarming because it gives the impression of a forced encounter, but neck biting is actually a defensive action on the male’s part. Although females choose their mates and mating is volunta
News Articles and Discussion   bio_man   2133   12 years ago
Alexander Fleming
Alexander Fleming
Sir Alexander Fleming was a Scottish bacteriologist and pharmacologist. He wrote many articles on bacteriology, immunology and chemotherapy.

Alexander Fleming is famous for discovering the usefulness of penicillin as an antibacterial agent. Raised in rural Scotland, he moved to London in his teens and worked as a shipping clerk and served in the Territorial Army. He earne
News Articles and Discussion   nakrul   578   12 years ago
Would Humanity Make Wise Decisions When MACHINES Finally Reach HUMAN Levels of I
Would Humanity Make Wise Decisions When MACHINES Finally Reach HUMAN Levels of I
The Myth of the Three Laws of Robotics – Why We Can’t Control Intelligence

Like many of you I grew up reading science fiction, and to me Isaac Asimov was a god of the genre. From 1929 until the mid 90s, the author created many lasting tropes and philosophies that would define scifi for generations, but perhaps his most famou
News Articles and Discussion   bio_man   757   12 years ago
Imaging Uncovers Brain Changes Long Before Alzheimer's Diagnosis
Imaging Uncovers Brain Changes Long Before Alzheimer's Diagnosis
Imaging Uncovers Brain Changes Long Before Alzheimer's Diagnosis

Amyloid is building up in the brain long before Alzheimer's memory loss appears. Thus, if Alzheimer's disease is going to be prevented, it may be necessary to take action at this stage.

The conversion to t he Alzheimer's disease proce
News Articles and Discussion   bio_man   594   12 years ago
Prostitution Between Animals
Prostitution Between Animals
Prostitution, Gold-digging, or Just a Dinner Date? How Chimps Get Paid for Sex

Would you believe that chimpanzees have sex for "money"? The parallels within human society could be significant.

Throughout nature, only humans appear to use money so it may seem counter-intuitive that our
News Articles and Discussion   bio_man   618   12 years ago
SEEING INTERNAL ORGANS Without Surgery Or Imaging Technology !!!
SEEING INTERNAL ORGANS Without Surgery Or Imaging Technology !!!
Newly developed fluorescent protein makes internal organs visible

Researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have developed the first fluorescent protein that enables scientists to clearly “see” the internal organs of living animals without the need for a scalpel or imaging technique
News Articles and Discussion   bio_man   681   12 years ago
Water Flows Discovered on Mars
Water Flows Discovered on Mars


Narrated by Alfred McEwen from the amazing HiRise camera aboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.

Here is rotating globe of Mars and we're going to zoom in on the middle Southern latitudes, the part of Mars where we find these active slope features, and we're zooming in on the Newton Basin crater her
News Articles and Discussion   bio_man   741   12 years ago
An Animal's Genetic Code Altered In Such Way That It Produces A New Kind of Prot
An Animal's Genetic Code Altered In Such Way That It Produces A New Kind of Prot
Researchers extend genetic code of an entire animal



Caenorhabditis elegans.

Researchers Sebastian Greiss and Jason Chin of the Medical Research Council's Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, h
News Articles and Discussion   bio_man   562   12 years ago
The Mystery Of A Dwarf Human Species
The Mystery Of A Dwarf Human Species


Broadcast (2005) On the far-flung island of Flores, in the Indonesian archipelago, a team of archaeologists happened upon a tiny 18,000-year old skeleton. It was no more than a metre tall. They assumed they have found the remains of a young girl. But othe
News Articles and Discussion   bio_man   687   12 years ago
How A Small Group In Africa, That Almost Got Extinct, Gave Origin To The Present
How A Small Group In Africa, That Almost Got Extinct, Gave Origin To The Present


Broadcast (2010) Dr Alice Roberts travels the globe to discover the incredible story of how humans left Africa to colonise the world - overcoming hostile terrain, extreme weather and other species of human. She pieces together precious fragments of bone, stone and new DNA evidence and discovers how this journey change
News Articles and Discussion   bio_man   633   12 years ago
VITAMIN C Might Prevent Or Delay ALZHEIMER's Disease
VITAMIN C Might Prevent Or Delay ALZHEIMER's Disease
Treatment with vitamin C dissolves toxic protein aggregates in Alzheimer's disease

Researchers at Lund University have discovered a new function for vitamin C. Treatment with vitamin C can dissolve the toxic protein aggregates that build up in the brain in Alzheimer's disease. The research findings are now being
News Articles and Discussion   bio_man   580   12 years ago
New COMPOUND May Accelerate BONE HEALING, Prevent OSTEOPOROSIS !!!
New COMPOUND May Accelerate BONE HEALING, Prevent OSTEOPOROSIS !!!
New compound may accelerate bone healing, prevent osteoporosis

An Indiana University scientist studying human bone growth has received a $2.6 million grant from the U.S. Department of Defense to study a chemical compound with potential to fight osteoporosis and accelerate broken bone healing.

Hiroki Yokota,
News Articles and Discussion   bio_man   675   12 years ago
Neanderthals and Denisovans Sex With Our Ancestors Improved Our Immune Systems !
Neanderthals and Denisovans Sex With Our Ancestors Improved Our Immune Systems !
Sex with Neanderthals and Denisovans gave healthy boost to human genome: study

For a few years now, scientists have known that humans and their evolutionary cousins had some casual flings, but now it appears that these liaisons led to a more meaningful relationship.

Sex with Neanderthals and another close r
News Articles and Discussion   bio_man   1069   12 years ago
Heal Thyself: Think Positive
Heal Thyself: Think Positive
Heal thyself: Think positive



"Everything's going to be fine." Go on, try to convince yourself, because realism can be bad for your health. Optimists recover better from medical proce
News Articles and Discussion   bio_man   525   12 years ago
Good News: Mosquitoes 'Disappearing' In Some Parts Of Africa
Good News: Mosquitoes 'Disappearing' In Some Parts Of Africa
Mosquitoes 'disappearing' in some parts of Africa



Mosquitoes are now a rare sight in some parts of Africa

Malaria-carrying mosquitoes are disappearing in some parts of Africa, bu
News Articles and Discussion   bio_man   582   12 years ago
Gene Therapy Works for "Bubble Boy" Disease
Gene Therapy Works for "Bubble Boy" Disease
Gene Therapy Works for ‘Bubble Boy’ Disease

Nine years after getting gene therapy for a rare, inherited immune system disorder often called "bubble boy disease," 14 out of 16 children are doing well, researchers report.

The children were born with severe combined immunodeficiency disease (SCID). They got
News Articles and Discussion   bio_man   826   12 years ago
New Experimental Method Will Rapidly REVEAL The MINIMAL Number of INSTRUCTIONS (
New Experimental Method Will Rapidly REVEAL The MINIMAL Number of INSTRUCTIONS (
New method reveals parts of bacterium genome essential to life

A team at the Stanford University School of Medicine has cataloged, down to the letter, exactly what parts of the genetic code are essential for survival in one bacterial species, Caulobacter crescentus.

They found that 12 percent of the bacteri
News Articles and Discussion   bio_man   565   12 years ago
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