Archive for July, 2008

A new discovery by a researcher team from Karolinska Institutet, in cooperation with Lund University, may lower or even prevent cardiovascular diseases such as stork. What doctors refer to as Atherosclerosis “hardening of the arteries” happens when the walls of the blood vessels are thickened and become less elastic. This lead to blood clots and other cardiovascular diseases, it’s [...]

Texas doctors say that they might have found a way to destroy HIV completely. A team of Medical doctors at Houston Medical School said that there is real hope that might lead to a cure for HIV. “We have found an innovative way to kill the virus by finding this small region of HIV that is unchangeable,” Dr. Sudhir Paul of the University of Texas Medical School at Houston said.

Engadget is reporting that the new iPhone 3G is successfully unlocked for the first time in the United State since it was released July 11. The iPhone was unlocked using a software that was created by a team consist of six members.

Scientists at University of Arizona using Nasa’s Cassini orbiter, have confirmed the existence of liquid gas lake on Saturn moon. The lake is referred to Ontario Lacus, and its about 150 miles or 235 kilometers long. This is the first time in Space exploration history, scientist find a body in our solar system beyond Earth that has liquid on its surface.

Edgar Mitchell, a 77 year old ex-NASA astronaut, who walked on the moon for about nine hours in the Apollo 14 mission back in Feb 9, 1971; said he is still totally sure life exists elsewhere in the universe and governments such as the U.S have tried to hide the information about the existence of aliens for a long time.

A team of researcher at Yale University School Of Medicine new study could explain why the cold and flu virus symptoms that are often mild and transient in non-smokers can seriously sicken smokers. The finding was published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation, and it explains the mechanism by which viruses and cigarette smoke interact with each other to increase lung inflammation and damage.

Many U.S companies have announced plans to build plants that would take in material like wood chips, garbage or crop waste and turn out motor fuels. With the insane increase of gas prices which reached over 130$ a barrel and gasoline above 4$ a gallon, the waste-to-fuel industry now is working to develop a new system to convert waste into usable energy “fuel”.

NEW YORK, Palscience –There are several causes for DNA damage, to mention some, carcinogens (mainly radiation) in the surround environment, errors in DNA replication or glitches in the cellular machinery caused by aging. Many intensive studies have been in the past to try stopping the development of that damaged which ultimately causes the deadly disease “Cancer”.