Friday, November 30, 2012

New drug promising for treatment of Parkinson's

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Parkinson's disease affects the part of the brain that takes care of muscle control. Because the brain part responsible for these funct...
Thursday, November 29, 2012

Method devised to build our own proteins

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Proteins are the basic building blocks of cells, and they have all sorts of functions. Some of them appear as true building blocks that hol...
Wednesday, November 28, 2012

Looking through the eyes of a monkey

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It is not easy to decipher the behaviour of animals, because they have no way of communicating their motives and feelings to us. That is wh...
Monday, November 26, 2012

Nano structures aid in studying individual cells

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A cell is the most basic form of life there is. Some organisms consist of just a single cell, but us human beings have billions of them. Be...
Sunday, November 25, 2012

Time is not symmetrical, new study shows

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We experience time as a straight line; it only goes forward and never backwards, unless you are playing back a piece of video or audio in r...
Saturday, November 24, 2012

Device prints words directly on a blind person's retina

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Blindness is very hard to cure, and it is one of the few things for which there are barely any effective treatments. Being blind is often p...
Thursday, November 22, 2012

Recordings show that fetuses yawn in the womb

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Ever so often we discover things that do not seem particularly useful, but are still interesting enough to mention. An example of this is a...