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Bacteria Enriched Yoghurts Provide No Health Benefits

dasha — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 14:29:24 +0000

The health benefits of bacteria enriched yogurts are actually a fake, according to European Food Safety Authority (ESFA). 2006 large-scale study showed that out of 180 supposedly healthy ingredients, 10 are not beneficial at all while the health benefits of the rest 170 have not been confirmed.

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Fully Functional Heart Muscle Engineered

dasha — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:01:50 +0000

According to BBC, Harvard scientists have succeeded in engineering a fully functional cardiac muscle. During the experiment, they identified which heart stem cells produce muscle cells, fat tissue cells and the cells of cardiac conduction system.

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Our Brain Stores Memories That Seem Forgotten

dasha — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 20:50:15 +0000

А woman looks familiar to you, but you can’t remember her name or where you saw her? According to a new University of California study, the memory about it exists – you simply have no access to it.

Using advanced brain imaging methods, the scientists found that a person’s brain activity at the moment of remembering an event is similar to when it was experienced, even if a person can’t remember any details. Jeff Johnson, lead author of the study published in the journal Neuron, says that if the information is still there, there is a chance to retrieve it.

Inside an MPT scanner, the students were shown words and asked to do various tasks: imagine how an artist would draw the object named by the word or say the word backward in their minds. At this moment the scanner captured the brain activity. About 20 minutes later, students were shown the words again and asked to recall all details about them. Again, the scanner captured their brain activity. The scientists conclude that this shows the brain stores the information about all events, even if a person thinks it’s long forgotten.

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Victory Against Obesity Is on the Way

tania — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 21:21:13 +0000

Scientists have made a revolutionary discovery which may help fight obesity in near term. Researchers from Boston succeeded in extracting brown fat out of mouse and human cells.

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Scientists Discovered another Cause of Hair Loss

tania — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 18:42:52 +0000

Frequent hair combing, especially at the beauty salons, can lead to hair loss. Such conclusion was made by an Israeli dermatologist Alexander Kidman. He conducted a study for one month and determined that the more we comb our hair, the more hair we lose.

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Scientists Learned to Grow Teeth

tania — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 18:36:21 +0000

Scientists from the Tokyo University of Science managed to grow a fully functional tooth in place of a removed one.

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Women Spend One Year of Their Lives on Choosing Clothes

tania — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 22:02:16 +0000

Every day most women spend at least a couple of minutes on deciding what to wear for work, dinner, gym, walk, etc. How much time do we spend on choosing clothes through their lives?

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Sex Academy Amora Opens in Berlin

tania — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 20:48:09 +0000

While one may argue for ages whether sex is physiology, pleasure or art, inspirers of interactive sexual exhibit never doubt that sex is science!

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Breastfeeding – the First Step towards College Study

tania — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 18:00:06 +0000

Scientists from the University of Colorado and the University of Washington (USA) discovered that every month of breastfeeding improves the child’s performance at school by 1 per cent. As part of their study they observed long-term effects of breastfeeding on a sample of 126 twins from 59 families.

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Blood Test Can Tell About Our Rate of Aging

tania — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 17:53:52 +0000

A group of researchers from the University of North Carolina developed a special test which can determine the rate of biochemical aging of the body, as they discovered a special protein p16INK4a. The protein helps determine the actual degree of age-related changes in the organism.

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What Is the Dirtiest Body Part?

tania — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 21:28:31 +0000

The National Human Genome Research Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, located the part of the body with the highest concentration of bacteria. During the experiment the researchers selected a group of volunteers, who were asked to use the same soap, which had no antibacterial properties, for one week. (...)
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We Become Old at the Age of 27?

tania — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 19:43:39 +0000

As they say getting old is no fun. It’s age that makes us forget things we wanted to say, makes us lose keys, and spend hours trying to remember the password to the e-mail account. Yet, we believed the old age to hit us sometime beyond the “forty benchmark”. (...)
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“Fat Controller” Enzyme Maybe Key to Preventing Obesity

tania — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 00:33:46 +0000

“Fat Controller” in the intestines could be the key to preventing obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular disorders, scientists claim. They identified an enzyme responsible for whether the fat we eat is converted into energy or stored as extra pounds, Daily Mail reports.

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Scientists Have Determined the Best Physical Exercise

tania — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 21:22:00 +0000

Scientists from the University of San Diego, US, have determined the best physical exercise. They say we have to walk for half an hour every day making 100 steps per minute. Doing this kind of walking every day will provide moderate intensity physical activity, BBC News reports.

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15 Curious Health Facts

tania — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 01:49:59 +0000

Scientists from various institutes worldwide have made so many discoveries! A great part of them refer to health. Below you will find 15 curious facts about health, nutrition, human body and exercise you might not know before.

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Female Robot to Hit Catwalk at Japan Fashion Week in Tokyo

tania — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 17:04:11 +0000

Female robot HRP-4C, developed by National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, is making a debut as a model at Japan Fashion Week in Tokyo, said the research group for humanoid robots at a demonstration for reporters Monday.

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Hypertension Gene Uncovered

Geniusbeauty.com — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 22:32:46 +0000

Hypertension poses a serious health threat. Scientists discovered a gene responsible for water-salt metabolism and associated with a high risk of hypertension when they conducted genetic studies among Amish sect adherents who reject civilization and live in strict isolation in southwestern Pennsylvania.(...)
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