Wake up your biological clock with the alarm clock gene.
by David Webber Researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies have identified a new enzyme responsible for the reactivation of our biological clock. The enzyme, JARID1a, is responsible for reactivating the proteins, CLOCK and BMAL1, which responsible our rising levels in another protein PERIOD. The protein called PERIOD is used as an indicator for [...]
Blood Relations
by Joanna Brathwaite Around this time many people are being asked to give blood. Blood drives essentially save lives, or allow sick patients more time with their families. How does this work exactly and who gets what type of blood? First one would need to look at the different kinds of blood tests. There are [...]
Green Tea Beats Obesity
by Christina Bomengo The article I found was based on an experiment that found that a group of obese mice that were fed a green tea supplement alongside a high-fat diet gained a great deal of less weight in comparison to a group of mice who were not fed the green tea compound. The researchers, [...]
Biological Alarm Clock
by Meghan Popek Have you ever forgot to set your alarm but you wake up on time anyway? Stalk Institute researchers identified a gene that is responsible for setting of this alarm while your in a restful state each morning. The reason why the finding of this gene is so important is that it may [...]
One Good Human Cell For a Bad One, Makes Another You!
by Donald Colindres What do films such as Aeon Flux, The Sixth Day and The Island have in common with recent discoveries scientists in New York have found?…You got it, clones. The International Business Times reported on October 6th, 2011 that scientists from the New York Cell Foundation Laboratory have successfully managed to clone human [...]
An Addiction Vaccine
by Megan Heintz For 27 years, Dr. Kim Janda has pursued this idea that vaccines can prevent addiction to drugs, including alcohol. Although many scientists in the past have focused on diseases like polio and small pox successfully, scientists today are embarking on one for substance abuse, arguably a disease itself. Ultimately, their goal is [...]
Robot brain impanted into rodents near you
by Shaniequa Price Recently, a Tel Aviv University researcher has productively put a robotic cerebellum into the skull of a rodent with brain damage, which restored its capacity for movement. The cerebellum “is responsible for co-ordinating movement”, explains Prof. Matti Mintz of TAU’s Department of Psychology. When this was put into the rat’s brain he [...]
How chemotherapy damages the central nervous system
by Raven Dover What is chemotherapy? Chemotherapy is used as a treatment for various cancers. “Chemotherapy is generally not very specific, and it puts normal tissues and organs at risk. Although the brain is given some protection from systemic treatments by the blood-brain barrier, it is increasingly recognized that many chemotherapeutic agents affect brain function [...]
by John Morizio According to an article written by ScienceDaily, Meiosis is the process in which one diploid Eukaryote cell divides into four Haploid cells, and is a process that always occurs in Eukarotic cells that reproduce sexually even single celled organisms. The process involves the replication of Dna between the cells eventually creating four [...]
Helium Ions Enhance Cellular Ions
by Lisa Pridgen In attempts to discover more about cell structure, it was revealed that helium ions enhance cellular imaging. Apparently, the use of an electron microscope has been the best way to study cells and their structure due to greater resolutions. The downfall of this method is that the surface of whatever is being [...]