Latest Discussions

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   582   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   680   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   1071   12 years ago

A Futuristic Car That Combines Functinality With Entertainment And Changes Appea

A Futuristic Car That Combines Functinality With Entertainment And Changes Appea

A Futuristic Car That Combines Functinality With Entertainment And Changes Appearance

News Articles and Discussion   bio_man   1093   12 years ago

The formula of life

The formula of life

The formula of life

Biology is undergoing a renaissance as scientists apply mathematical ideas to old theory. Welcome to the discipline of biomathematics, with its visions of spherical cows, football-shaped viruses and equations that can predict the pattern of a zebra’s stripes.

[img width=350 height=223]http://images

News Articles and Discussion   bio_man   750   RayBan   12 years ago

Our galactic black hole might light up in the next few years !!!

Our galactic black hole might light up in the next few years !!!

News Articles and Discussion   bio_man   558   relles   12 years ago

The Discovery of Dolphin Language

The Discovery of Dolphin Language

The Discovery of Dolphin Language



Researchers in the United States and Great Britain have made a significant breakthrough in deciphering dolphin language in which a series of eight objects have been sonically iden

News Articles and Discussion   bio_man   633   dgault   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   526   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   587   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   832   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   571   12 years ago

MEAT Without Cruel Slaughtering In 6 Months !!!

MEAT Without Cruel Slaughtering In 6 Months !!!

Meat without slaughter: '6 months' to bio-sausages

Who needs whole animals when you can grow burgers and sausages from their cells alone, in the lab - and do your bit for the environment too

[img width=300 height=229]http://www.newscientist.com/data/images/ns/cms/mg21128283.500/mg21128283.500-1_300

News Articles and Discussion   bio_man   890   12 years ago

Stratolaunch Systems, A Paul G. Allen Project

Stratolaunch Systems, A Paul G. Allen Project

News Articles and Discussion   bio_man   991   12 years ago

Aaron O'Connell: Making sense of a visible quantum object

Aaron O'Connell: Making sense of a visible quantum object

Physicists are used to the idea that subatomic particles behave according to the bizarre rules of quantum mechanics, completely different to human-scale objects. In a breakthrough experiment, Aaron O'Connell has blurred that distinction by creating an object that is visible to the unaided eye, but provably in two

News Articles and Discussion   bio_man   633   ppk   12 years ago

The Unleashed Mind: Why Creative People Are Eccentric

The Unleashed Mind: Why Creative People Are Eccentric

He is one of the world’s best known and most successful entrepreneurs, with hundreds of patents to his name—including the Segway scooter. But you will never see Dean Kamen in a suit and tie: the eccentric inventor dresses almost exclusively in denim. He spent five years in college before dropping out, does not take vacations and has never married. Kamen pr

123

News Articles and Discussion   bio_man   5888   31   hduran1   12 years ago

Life-like cells are made of meta

Life-like cells are made of meta

Could living things that evolved from metals be clunking about somewhere in the universe? Perhaps. In a lab in Glasgow, UK, one man is intent on proving that metal-based life is possible.

http://vimeo.com/3040668

He has managed to build cell-like bubbles from giant metal-containing molecules and has given them some life-like

News Articles and Discussion   bio_man   585   Testbanx2012   12 years ago

The First CYBORGS !!!

The First CYBORGS !!!

To celebrate the launch of critically acclaimed video game DEUS EX: HUMAN REVOLUTION, Square Enix has commissioned filmmaker Rob Spence aka Eyeborg (a self proclaimed cyborg who lost an eye replaced it with a wireless video camera) to investigate prosthetics, cybernetics and human augmentation. How far are we from the future presented to us in DEUS EX: HUMAN REVOLUTION?

News Articles and Discussion   bio_man   583   12 years ago

A BIOLOGICAL COMPUTER That Could DESTROY Cancer Cells !!!

A BIOLOGICAL COMPUTER That Could DESTROY Cancer Cells !!!

Biological 'Computer' Destroys Cancer Cells: Diagnostic Network Incorporated Into Human Cells

ETH professor Yaakov Benenson and MIT professor Ron Weiss have successfully incorporated a diagnostic biological "computer" network in human cells. This network recognizes certain cancer cells

News Articles and Discussion   bio_man   1116   4   buy bystolic   12 years ago

Scientists Discovered MOLECULES That Give Order To Grow HAIR

Scientists Discovered MOLECULES That Give Order To Grow HAIR

New Treatments for Baldness? Scientists Find Stem Cells That Tell Hair It's Time to Grow



Researchers have discovered the source of signals that trigger hair growth, an insight that may lead to new treatments for ba

News Articles and Discussion   bio_man   748   12 years ago

The End Of Hard Disks ? TWO TERABYTES of FLASH MEMORY Is Coming !!!

The End Of Hard Disks ? TWO TERABYTES of FLASH MEMORY Is Coming !!!

Transcend says USB stick capable of 2 TB storage

"Imagine that going into your tablet!" The presenter at the Display Taiwan 2011 Technology Show recently was demonstrating a finger-length, thin USB flash drive of 16 gigabytes. She told visitors, however, that what was really interesting about this little number

News Articles and Discussion   bio_man   779   12 years ago

ALTRUISM Is Not Always Good. There Are Dangerous.Forms Of Altruism

ALTRUISM Is Not Always Good. There Are Dangerous.Forms Of Altruism

The dark side of altruism

Blindly trying to help others can have disastrous consequences



Hutus who killed Tutsis in the Rwandan genocide often thought it wo

News Articles and Discussion   bio_man   1304   2   12 years ago

Apparently, FEMALEs ORGASM Has A DIFFERENT Evolutionary Origin And Function Fro

Apparently, FEMALEs ORGASM Has A DIFFERENT Evolutionary Origin And Function Fro

Evolutionary mystery of female orgasm deepens



Whence the female orgasm? After 40 years of debate evolutionary biologists are no closer to deciding whether it evolved to give women a reproduc

News Articles and Discussion   bio_man   889   mikael   12 years ago

Method of the year: slicing and dicing with gene-editing nucleases

Method of the year: slicing and dicing with gene-editing nucleases

Gene-editing nucleases can make targeted and precise changes to an organism’s genome. This has opened up new possibilities for the study of gene function, as well as the treatment of disease. While gene-editing nucleases have been in use since the mid-1990s, in the form of zinc finger nucleases, the more recent discovery of TALENs (transcriptor-like effector nucleases) has created n

News Articles and Discussion   bio_man   838   2   ChristinaF   12 years ago

Psychologists Discover A GENE's Link To OPTIMISM, SELF-ESTEEM !!!

Psychologists Discover A GENE's Link To OPTIMISM, SELF-ESTEEM !!!

Psychologists discover a gene's link to optimism, self-esteem

UCLA life scientists have identified for the first time a particlular gene's link to optimism, self-esteem and "mastery," the belief that one has control over one's own life -- three critical p

News Articles and Discussion   bio_man   650   Ame   12 years ago

Complex Biologic Systems Like BRAINS Evolved Independently At Least Four Times !

Complex Biologic Systems Like BRAINS Evolved Independently At Least Four Times !

Brainy molluscs evolved nervous systems four times

Evolved it my way

Slimy and often sluggish they may be, but some molluscs deserve credit for their brains – which, it now a

News Articles and Discussion   bio_man   840   12 years ago

A Scientist Is Trying To CREATE An Alien METALLIC LIFE Form In A Lab

A Scientist Is Trying To CREATE An Alien METALLIC LIFE Form In A Lab

Life-like cells are made of metal



Organic life hoping for inorganic

Could living things that evolved from metals be clunking about somewhere in the universe? Perhaps. In a

News Articles and Discussion   bio_man   1398   12 years ago

Brain imaging reveals the movies in our mind

Brain imaging reveals the movies in our mind

Brain imaging reveals the movies in our mind



This set of paired images provided by Shinji Nishimoto of the University of California, Berkeley on Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2011 shows original video images, upper row, and those i

News Articles and Discussion   bio_man   893   3   robertling   12 years ago

Dimension-hop may allow neutrinos to cheat light speed

Dimension-hop may allow neutrinos to cheat light speed

Dimension-hop may allow neutrinos to cheat light speed



A CERN experiment claims to have caught neutrinos breaking the universe's most fundamental speed limit. The ghostly subatomic partic

News Articles and Discussion   bio_man   886   12 years ago

Mission To MARS Simulation: The Most Extreme Psychological Experiments Ever Made

Mission To MARS Simulation: The Most Extreme Psychological Experiments Ever Made

520 days: Surviving everyday life on a mission to Mars



One of the most extreme psychological experiments ever is drawing to a close.

CHIEF engineer Konstantin Chetvergov strides

News Articles and Discussion   bio_man   842   robertling   12 years ago

New Microbicide Targets the AIDS Virus Sugar Coating And Prevents It From Infec

New Microbicide Targets the AIDS Virus Sugar Coating And Prevents It From Infec

Targeting HIV's sugar coating: New microbicide may block AIDS virus from infecting cells



University of Utah bioengineer Patrick Kiser has discovered a new class of compounds that stick to the AIDS vi

News Articles and Discussion   bio_man   615   12 years ago

The People Who Gave Origin To Native Australians Left Africa Earlier Than Those

The People Who Gave Origin To Native Australians Left Africa Earlier Than Those

Lock of hair pins down early migration of Aborigines



A lock of hair is all that is needed to decode the history of an entire people

A lock of hair has helped scientists

News Articles and Discussion   bio_man   765   12 years ago

Inexhaustible source of hydrogen may be unlocked by salt water

Inexhaustible source of hydrogen may be unlocked by salt water

‘Inexhaustible’ source of hydrogen may be unlocked by salt water



Bruce Logan's bacterial hydrolysis cell with reverse electrodialysis stack.

A grain of salt or two may be all that micr

News Articles and Discussion   bio_man   606   12 years ago

LAUGHTER Produces Endorphins, Study Finds

LAUGHTER Produces Endorphins, Study Finds

Laughter Produces Endorphins, Study Finds

Laughter is regularly promoted as a source of health and well being, but it has been hard to pin down exactly why laughing until it hurts feels so good. The answer, reports Robin Dunbar, an evolutionary psychologist at Oxford, is not the intellectual pleasure of cerebral

News Articles and Discussion   bio_man   595   12 years ago

How Does the Brain Know What the Tongue Knows?

How Does the Brain Know What the Tongue Knows?

New Map Shows Where Tastes are Coded in the Brain: How Does the Brain Know What the Tongue Knows?

Each taste, from sweet to salty, is sensed by a unique set of neurons in the brains of mice, new research reveals. The findings demonstrate that neurons that respond to specific tastes are arranged discretely in what the scienti

News Articles and Discussion   bio_man   556   12 years ago

Men and women cooperate equally for the common good

Men and women cooperate equally for the common good

Men and women cooperate equally for the common good

Stereotypes suggest women are more cooperative than men, but an analysis of 50 years of research shows that men are equally cooperative, particularly in situations involving a dilemma that pits the interests of an individual against the interests of a

News Articles and Discussion   bio_man   614   robertling   12 years ago

Non-Disease VIRUS Kills Breast CANCER Cells In Lab

Non-Disease VIRUS Kills Breast CANCER Cells In Lab

Non-Disease Virus Kills Breast Cancer Cells In Lab

A virus that infects humans without causing disease kills breast cancer cells in the laboratory. Researchers from Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) College of Medicine in the US, tested an unaltered form of adeno-associated virus type 2 (AAV2) on

News Articles and Discussion   bio_man   894   12 years ago

Your IMMUNE SYSTEM Learns How To Regulate Itself And How To Behave In Your COLON

Your IMMUNE SYSTEM Learns How To Regulate Itself And How To Behave In Your COLON

Colon identified as a seat of immune cell learning

HEY! T-cells! Leave them bugs alone! Some immune cells need an education to avoid attacking gut bacteria that help digest food - and their classroom is your colon.

One seat of immune cell learning - the thymus - is already known. Chyi-Song Hsieh at Washington Univ

News Articles and Discussion   bio_man   665   12 years ago

HEART BEATING Can Be Controlled By Pulses Of LIGHT !!!

HEART BEATING Can Be Controlled By Pulses Of LIGHT !!!

Light pulses keep heart cells beating

THE beating rhythm of human heart cells can be controlled using light. Researchers at Stanford University in California inserted a gene found in algae into human embryonic stem cells, then made the cells differentiate into heart muscle cells. The gene produces a light-sensitive protein c

News Articles and Discussion   bio_man   654   12 years ago

Invasion of genomic parasites triggered modern mammalian pregnancy

Invasion of genomic parasites triggered modern mammalian pregnancy

Genetic parasites invaded the mammalian genome more than 100 million years ago and dramatically changed the way mammals reproduce -- transforming the uterus in the ancestors of humans and other mammals from the production of eggs to a nurturing home for developing young, a new Yale University study has found.

The findings published online Sep

News Articles and Discussion   bio_man   583   12 years ago

Compound kills highly contagious flu strain by activating antiviral protein

Compound kills highly contagious flu strain by activating antiviral protein

Compound kills highly contagious flu strain by activating antiviral protein

A compound tested by UT Southwestern Medical Center investigators destroys several viruses, including the deadly Spanish flu that killed an estimated 30 million people in the worldwide pandemic of 1918.

This lead compound - which ac

News Articles and Discussion   bio_man   773   12 years ago