http://palscience.com Nanotechnology::Computer And Internet::Health and Medicine::Space::Gadgets::News Thu, 20 Nov 2008 04:32:58 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Doctors at Jackson Memorial Medical Center in Miami kept a U.S teenager called D'Zhana Simmons from South Carolina alive for 118 days without a heart. They used custom-built artificial blood-pumping machine, until she was able to have a heart transplant. Simmons said, living without a heart for a long time ... http://palscience.com/2008/11/19/a-us-teenager-survived-four-months-without-a-heart/ I eat red meat at least twice a week, but I have never thought that it would spur cancer progression. This is whatU.S researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have discovered, "inflammation from a molecule introduced through consumption of red meat and dairy products could ... http://palscience.com/2008/11/16/red-meat-could-promote-cancer-progression-study-suggests/ Charles Darwin, the genius Naturalist behind the theory of evolution passed away 200 years ago, but he left us something from his beard "Hair". When Darwin died two centuries ago, his family collected some pieces of Darwin's hair and kept for generations in a box as a keep-sake. Now ... http://palscience.com/2008/11/16/hair-from-charles-darwins-beard-goes-on-display/ During the past 10 years, several planet detection methods were used to discover over 200 exoplanets, but unfortunately all of these techniques have limitations. It didn’t tell scientists any thing about the planet other than its mass and orbit. But for the fist time ever, new images and snap shots ... http://palscience.com/2008/11/13/astronomers-recieved-images-of-newly-discovered-multi-planet-solar-system/ A U.S architectural firm based in Ontario California called HMC announced recently plans to work with neuroscientists to examine ways in which natural surroundings and healthy outdoors lighting can be incorporated into the design of hospitals, which ultimately help patients  heal faster. The idea behind the project is to identify which ... http://palscience.com/2008/11/11/neuroscientists-to-help-incorporate-natures-healing-properties-into-hospital-design/ Doctors in from the U.S and British carried out a complex and very challenging surgery where they transplanted an ovary to a 38 year old London woman after suffering from early menopause. The woman is expected to give birth to the word's first ovary transplant baby next week as the ... http://palscience.com/2008/11/10/the-worlds-first-ovary-transplant-baby/ Many people die daily becuase of liver and heart failure, but a new technology was developed by Lord Robert Winston and his research team where they use pig genetically-modified organs for human transplant. "this new technology could be ready in two or three years". Winston said. The team working to develop ... http://palscience.com/2008/11/07/genetically-modified-pig-organs-for-human-transplant/ The ionic hand has been recognized as one of the top inventions in 2008. This hand "The i-limb" was created by Livingston Company Touch Bionics and took them around 20 years to develop. The hand has five separately working fingers; also it has a credit-card grip, for taking hold ... http://palscience.com/2008/11/06/the-worlds-first-bionic-hand/ Japanese scientists recently developed a way using stem cell to create functioning brain tissues, this breakthrough in stem cells will save lives by helping to find cures for diseases such as cancer and diabetes or replace damaged cells, tissues and organs. According to researchers at the government-backed research institute Riken, Stem ... http://palscience.com/2008/11/06/creating-functional-human-brain-tissues-from-stem-cells/ Kimani, is a hug elephant who is responsible of destroying farms and crops in Kenya and sometimes wiping out month of income. Villagers in Kenya mostly depend on farms for their daily food and some cash, but the Kimanis according to the farmers is a disastrous when they invade ... http://palscience.com/2008/11/05/elephant-sends-text-messages/