Archive for the 'Biotech' Category

Eat smartly to get smart: improve your intelligence

Sunday, July 6th, 2008

New research findings published online in The FASEB Journal provide more evidence that if we get smart about what we eat, our intelligence can improve. According to MIT scientists, dietary nutrients found in a wide range of foods from infant formula to eggs increase brain synapses and improve cognitive abilities.

In the study, gerbils were given [...]

Our personal computer

Wednesday, May 28th, 2008

Do you know that you have a personal computer attached in you, day and night?? ^^;

Yes, your magnificent brain.

Our human brain, that incredibly powerful personal computer control center that each of us has, is capable of doing for you anything reasonable that you’d like itto do. But you have to know how to treat it. [...]

New Use Pops Up For Viagra

Thursday, May 22nd, 2008

Canadian researchers have found a whole new use for Viagra. It’s for affairs of the heart, but not the bedroom kind.

A study released in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on Monday by the University of Montreal and the Montreal Heart Institute showed that sildenafil, also known as Pfizer’s Viagra, protected against [...]

Interesting finding: Gene UGT2B17

Wednesday, April 30th, 2008

The story goes like this: Fifty-five (55) men in a drug doping study in Sweden were normal and healthy. And all agreed, for the sake of science, to be injected with testosterone and then undergo the standard urine test to screen for doping with the hormone.

The results were unambiguous: the test worked for most of [...]

Weapon to fight Global Warming?

Saturday, March 8th, 2008

We know that carbon dioxide is killing corral reefs and marine life, contributes to global warming, rising sea levels and the increased acidity of oceans. We surely know that all these damages that will be irreversible, at least for many centuries, and I think all these phenomena are contributing to – Global Warming. For those [...]