Archive for September, 2009

Psychologist and distinguished professor at the University of California, Irvine, discusses the prevalence of false memories. She describes her own experiments in creating false memories, and explains how this impacts fields ranging from law to dieting.

Who ever thought that cancer cure could be from blood sucking parasites? Scientists in Brazil according to the AFP, discovered by accident a protein in the saliva of a common South American tick, Amblyomma cajennense that has the ability to destroy cancer cells and leaving healthy cells alone. How is this possible? The scientist stumbled upon a protein called Factor X active, and this protein according [...]

If were to think of what kind of virus would be really able to infect the vast of majority of the world wide population and cause a world wide catastrophe, it would be one can infect a person, remain symptomless for few weeks but sill be able to spread that virus to other of people. In that scenario, by the time every body got sick from that virus infection, there would be hundreds but thousands of [...]

Better to be deprived of food for three days, than tea for one.” (Ancient Chinese Proverb)”. Green tea is well known to be great drink for your body and health. Some of the major benefits involve cancer, high cholesterol levels, cardiovascular disease, infection, and impaired immune function. But have you ever thought that it would slow down bone breakdown dramatically. Thats what scientist [...]

His name is Sultan Kosen, and entered the the Guinness Book of World Records after he received his official measurement of 8 feet, 1 inch tall in September 21, 2009. His pituitary gland, damaged by the tumor, was producing too much growth hormone and Mr Kösen became taller and taller. When other children were little more than 4ft, he was already well over 6ft tall. The history of human being knew [...]

Capsaicin, the compound that makes chili peppers spicy could be our future and promising drug. capsaicin, according to researcher could dramatically reduce damage from heart attacks. Scientists induced heart attacks on mice by cutting off the blood supply to their coronary arteries for 45 minutes. 24 hours after the “artificial heart attack”, mice lost only 15% as many heart cells as mice [...]

After a miracle medical intervention, scientists made paralyzed rats run again. The scientist said that this procedure will work on human also, and would give them their normal functions back. Rats, whose spinal cords had been severed walked again after scientist sent electrical stimulation to the spinal cord. With drugs and some physical therapy the rats ran naturally for over 30 minutes without. [...]

A Chines woman woke up in the morning and found a 16-inch-long snake in her bedroom. Duan Qiongxiu, 66 years old was surprised and shocked at the same time. She wasn’t surprised because of the snake, she was shocked to see that the snack has one foot growing out its body. As you see in the image the foot is less than an inch long and has four claws. Via – Abc News