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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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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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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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The idea of combining genetics and our own immune response that might enable us to finally win the war against bacterial infections

Posted on March 27, 2011 by rndsync

Bacteria are the most adaptive species on the planet. They continuously mutate and as such any antibiotic treatment that we come up with they can develop immunity to. It’s like a war where the enemy is 100 times smarter and … Continue reading →

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Believing is better than not believing!

Posted on March 26, 2011 by rndsync

I am not talking about God. Belief in your own abilities make you do wonders. I wrote a while back about the finding that believing you can get smarter actually makes you smarter. Now this article in Psychological science says … Continue reading →

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