A specifically re engineered Herpes virus to destroy cancer cell shows a promising result in a preliminary study.
NV1020 is a modified version of the herpes simplex virus, which causes cold sores. Its genetic make-up has been altered that so it only replicates in cancer cells, killing them in the process, and leaves ordinary cells alone. [...]
Imagine one day when u can travel from Sydney to London in less than 2 hours? Yes, this is so possible when a prototype jet engine at Mach 10 makes into commercial. A new jet engine named scramjet which does not carry its own oxygen supply was successfully tested in Australia. Without its own oxygen [...]
This video shows a journey everyone had gone through before. Out of hundreds of millions sperms per ejaculation, only one will get into the ovum, and that’s YOU. A sperm will take one to two hours for it to travel from cervix to ovum. You know, most of us only interested in making sex [...]
Scientist at Sheffield University has created an artificial blood from plastic. The concept is similar to real hemoglobin where iron atom is needed to carry oxygen. Unlike real blood which need special storage and temperature to carry, this new plastic blood doesn’t need those requirements. When I was in medical School, one of my lecturers [...]
Free and available online is new trend of information nowadays. While wikipedia is a successful example of that trend, a new emerging website called Encyclopedia of Life (EOL) will bring you new taste of the same trend. Originating from Harvard, this ultimate project will document every Earth’s known species. Yeah, that’s including you, Homo sapiens. [...]
Rivers turned black, cloud of choking smoke , increase of global warming ; these are few examples of polutions.Finding ways to predict how the earth will respond to these threats are quite a puzzle. Will the earth eventually come to its doomsday? When?
2100
A combination of global warming and other factors will push many ecosystems [...]
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A scientist at University of Nevada has created new technique to combine sheep and human. Currently cell`s percentage for the chimera is 85% sheep and 15% human. The end game is to match the sheep`s organ to human. How interesting is that
Creator of Palm and Treo handheld believes he has created a software based on how brain thinks. The artificial intelligent program has three components: A core engine, OS like which Hawkin believes will mimic how the brain thinks, A set of open source software tools ( GPLed? ) and and the codes for learning algorithm. [...]