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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.
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.
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
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
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
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
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
If You Want To Wide-Open Your Eyes Into The Current REALITY Of The World YOU CAN
Journalist and author Chris Hedges delivers a lecture based on his book Death of the Liberal Class. Hedges argues that there are five pillars of the liberal establishment - the press, liberal religious institutions, labor unions, universities and the Democratic Party - but that these institutions have failed the constituents they purport to represent.
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
