The menace of drug-resistant diseases is increasing in bounds. Tonsillitis to typhoid fever was being fought against with antibiotics, such as penicillin for more than 50 years! But, the rogue-gallery of these bacteria is rapidly growing resistance...
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Do you know more than 100 genes in a marine snail -- Aplysia – are similar to those associated with all major human neurological diseases? Not just that! Even more than 600 genes controlling human brain development are similar to those of the sea slug!...
A new technique has been developed for identifying bacteria in its ambient environment using mass spectrometry -- called desorption electrospray ionization. This technique could be used for creating a new class of fast, accurate detectors. It can be...
The same genetic mechanism that drives tumor growth can also act as a tumor suppressor! Yes, the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) School of Medicine researchers have solved this 100-year-old genetic puzzle!
This decoding of the age-old...
An MIT engineer and his Italian colleagues have successfully invention a 3D scaffold that in a near future may replace the ubiquitous Petri dish for growing cells! A designer scaffold is developed from a network of protein nanofibers. Each nano-fiber is...
The genes may turn on and off in a different way then known during their development. Biologists at the Thomas Jefferson University’s Kimmel Cancer Center in Philadelphia perhaps have discovered this new way of the genes’ activities.
The findings...
An Australian researcher has made an interesting observation on the effects of a common parasite on both men and women! Besides its dangerous affects on people across the world, the parasite Toxoplasma gondii infect men leading them to have lower IQs,...
New discoveries about Toxoplasma gondii and toxoplasmosis are creating waves in the field of AIDS epidemic and bioterrorism. It has been found that severe Toxoplasmosis -- normally associated with medical advice for pregnant women to avoid changing...
Lock your gadget’s keypad with a a single molecule-sized lock! Activate it by exposing it to the correct password, a sequence of chemicals and light. This newly developed device, scientists hope, could lead to a new level of safeguards for secret...
Malaria-carrying mosquitoes are discovered with a target site, which could help develop pesticides that are not toxic only to the Anopheles gambiae mosquito, but also other mosquito species.
This new pesticide will not affect humans and other...
Men of the sea have always told stories that seems mythical and legendry in nature. Since the very first sailor went down to the sea in the ships, they always returned with the stories of seeing strange creatures. No doubt, they looked like fanciful...
Scientists have discovered a new technique to study the behavior of superfluids. They have used lasers to study the liquids, which are not just strange and frictionless, but also difficult to create and study!
With this technique, the scientists...
Researchers, for the first time, have showed the photons in action, from "radiative decay". They have captured the light produced by the decays, which is roughly 1 in 1,000, in the form of an energetic photon.
A team of United States and...
A fertility drug normally used on humans has helped a gorilla give birth at a southwest England zoo! According to the zoo's deputy director Dr. Bryan Carroll, a 30-year-old western lowland gorilla has given birth to a baby gorilla at Bristol Zoo...
Pipelines carrying any type of fluid always have some leaks and it has been a challenge for the engineers to block the leak without spending too much in the process.
This new process that is inspired by the way our blood clots after an injury to...
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