Author Archives: rndsync

Autism brain different in visual structure from normal brain?

Posted on September 11, 2011 by rndsync

Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine and Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital have used MRI data and machine learning algorithms to classify children into autistic and non-autistic classes. Their discovery reveals that the gray matter in a network of … Continue reading →

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Value of life

Posted on September 7, 2011 by rndsync

Last year I heard of several deaths. Some of these are very close to me, my friends. Some are old. Some are very young. In one case it was a young boy who happened was bicycling home and made a … Continue reading →

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Reprogramming of the cells to be something other than what they are…

Posted on July 10, 2011 by rndsync

Human organs are made of cells. But all cells are not made equal. There is quite a bit of diversity. Most of our organs like skin, bones, muscles, heart, brain, lungs and other internal organs are made up of cells … Continue reading →

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Eating fatty food encourages you to eat more fat and so on…

Posted on July 9, 2011 by rndsync

Compounds called endocannabinoids that are a human bodies version of active compound found in marijuan, have generated a lot of interest recently due to their role in inducing endless hunger resulting in Binge eating. Scientists and Pharamacologists from University of … Continue reading →

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Small changes in genes (leaky genes) create express highway for evolutionary changes

Posted on June 25, 2011 by rndsync

It’s well known that small changes in the initial conditions cause changes in the long term that are not predictable when it comes to complex systems. There is no complex system that I know of that’s more complex than evolution … Continue reading →

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Bugs and infectious diseases

Posted on June 16, 2011 by rndsync

It’s well known that mosquitoes are carriers and transmitters of some of the most dreaded diseases like Malaria, Dongue fever, west nile fever etc. Ticks, Lice and Fleas cause Encephalitis, Lyme Disease, Typhus fever, Plague Flies carry all sorts of … Continue reading →

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US puts fear in the hearts of the terrorists

Posted on May 5, 2011 by rndsync

Not the best title for my blog. You might observe, but the terrorists don’t have hearts. Be that as it may, they are afraid. They are not sure. There is chaos inside their rigid structure. The goal of terrorists is … Continue reading →

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Flu prevention and cure if infected close at hand?

Posted on April 24, 2011 by rndsync

A lot of people get sick every year due to the influenza virus. Some are hospitalized and a few even die. It’s intersting to see how the hospitalization rates varied over years CDC tracks this very closely as they do … Continue reading →

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Protein that controls memory formation found – in mice

Posted on April 16, 2011 by rndsync

Synaptic firing in a neural network is the key to learning and memory. Learning and memory are both a function of the synaptic plasticity. Researchers at Johns Hopkins have discovered in mice a molecular wrecking ball that powers the demolition … Continue reading →

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Longer telomeres means longer life but also reduced cancer risk?

Posted on April 3, 2011 by rndsync

Evidence has indicated that there’s an inherited factor that helps determine telomere length and that short telomere length is a risk factor for cancer. No one had every connected the two, until now. Jian Gu, Ph.D., assistant professor in MD … Continue reading →

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