Life gene found
Researchers of the Hawaii Lifespan Study at the Kuakini Medical Centre, Honolulu, Hawaii have found that men, who have two copies of a gene that is associated with long life, stand an excellent chance of living well over a hundred years old.
It all boils down to having two letters, but these two letters are quite [...]
Sport improves brain functions
There is no doubt that being involved in sport can improve many functions of the brain, after all a sportsman will need to be alert and make snap decisions, but it is not necessarily just the people who actively take part in sport, fans can benefit too.
The concept of sport means that unlike watching TV [...]
The smell of danger
For as long as anyone can remember there have been sayings that go around the fact that humans can smell danger, these may be something like “I can smell danger in the air” and so on. However, this has normally been put down to fear or something similar.
However according to research being conducted by researchers [...]
Vaccine for Arthritis coming soon
There is a chance that within a few years there could be an injection available for arthritis sufferers which is said to work like a vaccine.
It works by taking cells from the patient; these are then altered and simply injected into the affected joint or joints.
With over 350,000 people in the UK suffering from the [...]
DNA flaw means no learning from mistakes
Experts in child development are looking at a flaw in the child’s DNA as the reason behind why some children fail to learn from their mistakes. We have seen this many times before when a child does something wrong one or two times then eventually, they get it right, but sometimes there are those children [...]
July 24, 2008Cancer vaccine from Tobacco
This has to be one of the classics, something good coming from something that is considered now to be completely evil. Trials of a new vaccine could become the way to treat the potentially fatal disease non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma.
This would have been something really special in any case, but you find out that the vaccine has [...]
Why do Americans suffer from fattigue?
In the US there is growing as to why the waste lines of a large proportion of the public are expanding.
The reason why people put weight on is that they are consuming more calories than they are using up through activity. Whatever the reasons, this is going to have long-term effects on the health [...]
Cancer treatment tested on human patients
A treatment that has successfully cured cancer in mice, is about to be tested for the first time on humans. The treatment has been developed by researchers at the Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Centre in the US.
The process involves the white blood cells, in particular the granulocytes which are used as a transfusion. This [...]
Cure for skin cancer found
For the very first time scientists are able to say that they have been able to cure cancer, this remarkable claim comes as a patients own cells have been used to create cloned cells outside the body and then reintroduced.
The patient was a 52 year old male from the US, and scientists from the Fred [...]
Tea can cut the risk of heart attacks
Drinks like tea have not really been getting great publicity mainly because of the caffeine content, but in a study by the British Nutrition Foundation it has been found that tea could actually cut down the risks of a heart attack.
Its not just that, tea can also help with the general health matters like, increasing [...]
Early humans experimented on tools
It has been found that our ancestors did not just happen to come across the ideas for tools and early weapons. These were made through a rigorous process of trial and error, they actually experimented with the tools until they go them right.
Researchers from the University of Missouri in the US have found that over [...]
Is there a lazy gene?
Researchers from the School of Medicine at Swansea University have been looking into the world of the lazy person; apparently there are quite a few of these people around!
But there could be hope for these people as they have the lazy gene, yes these days there is virtually a gene for everything, which is why [...]
Tests fail to show all defects in unborn babies
Italian researchers have told a European Genetics conference that tests used by hospitals on pregnant women will only detect around half of all chromosomal abnormalities, which is bound to create some fear amongst expectant mothers.
Dr Francesca Grati, from the TOMA Laboratory in Busto Arsizio told the audience at the European Society of Human Genetics [...]
The Majority of DNA is junk
The great thing about the human genome project is that the researchers have been able to unravel some of the secrets behind DNA.
One of these findings is that they believe that the majority of the 3.2 billion pairs of base pairs are actually junk, which serves no purpose to help improve the human race.
In [...]
Will stem cells ever be stored?
This may be a bit sci fi at the moment but eventually it is believed that the work into stem cells will have advanced so far along that medical staff will able to order genes from a bio bank.
What this could mean is that people would be able to bank their own cells for future [...]
E211 to be dropped from Coke
An additive which has been connected to hyperactivity and even with damaging DNA in children is to be phased out in the production process of Diet Coke.
The additive is called Sodium Benzoate or as many people will see it on the cans as E211, this is a sort of preservative which when it is added [...]
Hybrid embryos get the go ahead
Scientists in the UK will now be able to carry out research into such debilitating illnesses as Parkinson’s disease and Alzheimer’s by using embryos which are hybrids between human and animal.
This has been a controversial subject which has provoked many arguments coming from many different sources; however the bill allowing this to happen has now [...]
Living off the fat of the land
Scientists have come to aid of many people who are over weight but find it so hard to lose weight and so find themselves in a position where they want to lose weight and get fitter, but simply cannot shift the pounds needed to make any significant weight loss.
In a joint but separate effort by [...]
Magic powder helps finger grow
When Lee Spievak placed his finger into the spinning propeller of a model aircraft, nobody could have been surprised to hear that it cut the end of his finger off. But what would surprise many people is that he still has five fingers on each hand.
Luckily for him, his brother happened to work in the [...]
Monkeys tested for Mars trip
It was Russia, who pioneered the use of animals in space way back in the early days of the space race, but this did not go down well with everyone, however those days have now gone or have they?
It would seem that the Sochi Institute of Medical Primatology are about to get involved again with [...]