For long, animal rights activists had been demanding a ban on animal tests by pharmaceutical companies that they consider unethical. More often, the animal specimens are not exact replicas of the human biological features and drugs tested in labs on...
With more than 5.2 million people affected by asthma in the UK alone, and 9 million U.S. children diagnosed with the chronic disease on average, the Georgia Tech Research Institute researchers have come with relief for the sufferers – a sensor system...
Call it ‘a landmark achievement' or a ‘stunning advance', however, you can't refute that the new development, occurred on the health front, is no less than a science fiction coming true. Hats off to the laborious task carried out by the experts...
It has always been a challenge for researchers to develop a material that can be used to bend optical signals around corners that could be used for developing integrated circuits, which can be used in more advanced telecommunication circuits and to...
Futuristic devices are the only hope for physically disabled people to lead a close to healthy life. Brain Computer Interfaces (BCI) through the non-interventional and interventional devices help physically challenged individuals to control artificial...
Stem cell research received a major boost, when scientists announced a major through. The researchers in Massacheusetts led by Robert Lanza, chief scientific officer at Advanced Cell Technology in Worcester, Mass announced that they have created...
Genetic Engineering can reverse evolutionary history of species. This has been proved recently in a work by US scientists who produced hybrids of blind cave fish with partial vision. Blind cavefish are descendents of surface fish with sight. They...
The scientists have, in the past, expressed grave concern over the possibilities of Avian flu outbreaks leading to epidemics. Researches are conducted to determine the cause for this virus getting transferred from birds to humans. Many theories are...
We have seen beautiful handicrafts of gold. But can you imagine a real living creature with sparkling gold on the body? Bizarre as it might sound but this is exactly what scientists at Vietnam’s National University’s College of Science have done. They...
People with scars on the face and other exposed parts of the body will no longer face any embarrassment from those ugly marks and they will no longer need to undergo painful skin grafting, where a slice of the thigh skin is removed to cover the...
For neurologists treating patients with neuro-degenerative diseases and spinal chord injuries, the greatest challenge is to find a reliable therapy to mend the damaged nerve or in some special cases to trigger regrowth of neurons. The prevalent...
Robots have always fascinated humans with their ability to follow commands and execute them in a jiffy. These machines are structured in a way to make them resemble a human body in order to make them friendlier. However, even these robots seem to be...
Once you are hooked on drugs, it will take a time to recover. Withdrawal symptoms and a sense of euphoria will always be at hand for those who have been victims of drug addiction and wanting to change. But, with the introduction of a cocaine vaccine,...
Offshore drilling to extract our petroleum wealth is not easy or inexpensive. But, it is necessary for a nation's vital economic future. For example, in Australia, nearly 90 per cent of petroleum wealth is found offshore! And, it is practiced for...
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