Coffee the healthy drink
Apart from the obvious pick me up qualities that coffee appears to have, there has been research that proves coffee could have more benefits than many of us may have imagined.
In fact drinking coffee is being linked to having more than one health benefit; these include the possibility that it may prevent cancer, Parkinson’s disease, [...]
Exercising causes hunger
According to new research by the Pennington Biomedical Research Centre in Baton Rouge, USA, there has been some evidence found that people who exercise more than average, tend to eat more in compensation for the excess energy used.
This astonishing find means that there are people out there who think that just because they are exercising [...]
Funding for largest Alzheimer’s study
A research team at Cardiff University have been given a fantastic opportunity to look into the genetics that are behind the late onset of Alzheimer’s. The team have been given £1.3 million from the Wellcome Trust who is the UK’s largest medical research charity.
With over 700,000 people in the UK suffering from this disease and [...]
The first man made spider silk
Researchers from Nexia Bio Tech and the US Army, have been working on producing a man made spider silk from Mammal Cell Cultures which have been taken from cows.
The product will be used for producing the Nexia Bio Steel Fibre, this can be used for many products including sutures, biodegradable fishing lines and for making [...]
Overtired can lead to crankiness
Just what most of us always knew researchers at Harvard Medical School and the University of California at Berkeley have discovered that there is a link between people who do not get enough sleep and crankiness?
What this does is cause the brain to overreact to any situation that would not normally cause any problems. This [...]
Potential Malaria Vaccine
A vaccine for the terrible disease Malaria may come from a very strange source indeed, mosquitoes! It is well known that the Malaria is spread by mosquitoes, so what is researcher Stefan Kappe from the Seattle Biomedical Research Institute doing infecting them with malaria causing parasites?
The parasites have had some of their genes altered; this [...]
Mussels help Biomedical Engineering
A biomedical engineer from North-western University, Phillip Messersmith has been working with mussels, researching the little suckers ability to stick to a wide range of objects, it is this form of attachment that interests the research team.
The potential for this application would benefit medical science in particular surgery where it could be used in so [...]
Drugs and Diabetes connection
Insulin has for a long time been the treatment for diabetes, but researchers from the Vanderbilt University Medical Centre have discovered that the insulin actually has an affect on the brains Dopamine system, this system is a factor in drug addiction and neuro psychiatric conditions.
There may be a connection also between getting the right dosage [...]
Scientists discover Cell secrets
A team of researchers made up of staff from the Broad Institute of MIT, Harvard and Massachusetts General Hospital have been working on the human code. However this is not as you would expect from DNA, rather it come from Chromatin, this surrounds DNA.
The scientists believe that within the Chromatin code there are special instructions [...]
Second Life’s Brain Interface
Second Life users will soon be able to move their avatars by the power of their thoughts. Researchers from the Biomedical Engineering Laboratory at Keio University in Japan have been working on a brain to computer interface which enable the user to control what they see by thought only.
This is a bit like an old [...]
Mice Men win Nobel Medicine Prize
Three scientists have won the Nobel Prize for Medicine. The three are Mario Capecchi and Oliver Smithies from the States and Martin Evans from the UK, won the prize for their work in the filed of biomedical research.
It was the trios work in the creation of what they termed “Knockout Mice” which are created when [...]
Bird flu to human’s link found
The avian flu virus has been evolving over the years since its discovery in 1997. The virus was not as dangerous to humans then, as the most recent strain is.
However researchers at the UW Madison School of Veterinary Medicine have found a protein that helps the virus itself to infect cells in the upper respiratory [...]
Diabetes enzyme identified
Research at the Garvan Institute in Sydney, Australia has pin pointed an enzyme which is key in the blocking of insulin, the hormone that is found within the pancreas that converts the sugar in blood to energy.
Treatment for diabetes is done by trying to control the insulin levels by adding this to the body, but [...]
Genes get exited by smoking
Smoking has been found to have a serious effect on genes; in fact it has been described as a turn on. This may sound that it could be a good thing, however these changes are bad and they can be permanent too.
But the good news is that when a smoker stops, so do most of [...]
Kidney swapping a reality
Two couples have undergone a serious transplant operation, which see a husband and wife from Scotland paired up with a couple from Cambridgeshire. The procedure is very complicated, and involves a series of operations.
The woman from Scotland donated a kidney to the woman in Cambridgeshire, the husband of the woman from Cambridgeshire then in turn [...]
Creating Living Microfibers
Scientists at the University College London have managed to create living microfibers; the purpose behind this is to use these as a way to promote the regrowth of living tissue, the applications of which could be long reaching.
Mechanical engineers Suwan Jayasinghe and Sumathy Arumuganathar of University College London have developed a way to spin the [...]
Nanotechnology featured at Texas event
The use of nanotechnology has grown over the years to the extent that it is entering new and exciting markets. But in order to expose these new ideas to the wider markets nanotechnology in biology is going to be a featured event at the International Nanotechnology Week in Dallas, Texas, which starts around October 4th.
There [...]