Healthy uses for Tea
We have always heard about tea being one of those natural products, which is both good to drink and has many other healing properties too. However, despite all of the claims there is never a complete list of exactly what tea is good for part from drinking that is.
The list below is just a few [...]
Bionic eye coming soon
Sight is a very important thing and gradually losing it over a long period of can be very distressing. However, a new development in the field of replacement lenses to combat the problems of long and short sight.
This happens with age as the lens of the eye hardens and becomes inflexible, this will eventually turn [...]
Detecting cancer with lasers
It is a well known fact that catching cancer early can vastly improve the patient’s chances of surviving the disease.
In research being carried out by Dr. Patrick McCann, and a small group of internationally known researchers at the University of Oklahoma, are working on an early detection system using lasers, which can find specific [...]
New drug boost for cancer sufferers
A revolutionary new drug, which uses the body’s own immune cells, has left some cancer patients completely free of the disease.
These results have been met with excitement after a trial of thirty-eight patients who suffer from non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma saw fifty per cent of the patients see a reduction in the tumours, while four patients had [...]
One billion will die from smoking
The World Health Organisation (WHO) have released some chilling statistics, one billion people will die in the 21st century due to tobacco.
However, the countries more likely to be affected are places like Russia and Bangladesh. In an attempt to prevent this from happening £250 million has been committed to the cause. £125 million by Mayor [...]
Sight saved with contact lenses
New type of contact lens is so advanced that it is like having your own personal eye doctor that you can carry around with you every where that you go.
This new type of lens which is a combination of electrically conductive, antibiotic nanosilver particles and this new style of contact lens that when they are [...]
The brain works while we sleep
Getting a good nights sleep can be more productive than most people think, many people produce their best thoughts while lying in bed getting a bit of rest and relaxation.
Research being carried out by Dr Sophie Schwartz, from the University of Geneva has found that a proper nights sleep will stimulate more connection within the [...]
3D Mammogram in use
Getting the jump on cancer is essential to winning the fight against it in the long term, so in some cases the only way to be ahead of this disease is to have technology on your side. This is where the 3D mammogram comes into its own.
Being tested by scientist’s ay the Mayo Clinic in [...]
How a little shut eye can help
You only have to watch a cat or dog to understand that napping can be important, after all they seem to be doing that all day long, or most of it, which is probably why they the energy to run around all of the time.
So if we could take just a few minutes to have [...]
Coffee could extend your life
This could be great news for those people who love a cup of coffee, not just in the morning but all day long, after all there has to be a reason as to why there chains of coffee shops spread across the country.
Now it would appear that all of these people have been doing something [...]
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 [...]
A device which helps you keep your balance
For people who for one reason or another have trouble in keeping their balance, this can be a serious problem and actually have life changing consequences. But thanks to researchers from the TIMC labs which are located near Grenoble in France may have the answer.
They have come up a sensor that using the sensitive underside [...]
Every face tells a story
With so much interest in security these days, it seems that our faces are to become our passports as facial recognition systems are being installed at airports. But researchers at the Stephen Porter’s Forensic Psychology Lab at Dalhousie University have been studying the way that our faces can betray our emotions.
The research team believe that [...]
Brain scanners that predict decisions
In a study by John-Dylan Haynes a neuroscientist, of the Max Planck Institute it has been found that our brains already make up our minds when it comes to decisions, even before we have had time think about it.
By using brain scans to see the brain working, it has been noticed that the brain begins [...]
New treatment for damaged spinal cords
Scientists at the North-western University may have a way to repair a damaged spinal cord. This revolutionary treatment is injected into the damaged area, and it will help to prevent scaring and is supposed to help the damaged nerves to grow back.
The treatment is a liquid that contains molecules which will assemble themselves into [...]
Mobile phones changes proteins
There has been much written about the possible side effects of using mobile phones, some evidence seems to state that they can cause health problems, while other say that there is no risk. Yet millions of people continue to use a mobile phone and so the research continues too. In Finland a research team have [...]
March 7, 2008Scanner shows what you are viewing
Neuroscientists at the University of California at Berkeley have been working on a computer system that is connected to a magnetic resonance imaging machine which can look inside the body in real time. This has given the idea that this could be used to see if the brain reacts to what it sees.
They tested the [...]
The human genome explained
For many people the human genome is a mystery but there is lot of work being carried on at various institutions around the world like the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge they have together some great facts about the human genome:
The genome is the complete list of coded instructions needed to make a person.
The 4 [...]
Tattoos could deliver drugs
Having a tattoo done is something that you either like or hate, whether it is the fact that you have a picture left on your body or just the pain that it causes. But this could be the key to helping vaccines to become more efficient.
Its amazing how this technology could be used in medical [...]