….Think about it. You read newspapers and hard-copy books at one distance,
tablet and notebook computers at another distance, do crafts and
hobbies at other distances…. And how far away do you have to hold food
and personal care products these days to read the contents?
There’s a genetic mutation that keeps certain persons from having smelly
underarms and sticky ear wax. The question, to a group of scientists
from the University of Bristol in Great Britain, was whether persons
with no underarm odor used deodorant anyway. The results of their study
of 17,000 individuals are published in the advance online edition of
the Journal of Investigative Dermatology.
This year is starting off with the publication of several promising
research studies in biomedicine and reports on big advances in
neuroscience, particularly Alzheimer’s disease and other neurological causes of memory loss. This news includes a paper from a National Institutues of Health (NIH), published in the January 2013 FASEB Journal reporting on a peptide, TFP5,
that when administered to mice with the equivalent of human Alzheimer’s
disease, successfully reversed their symptoms of memory loss.
A scientific breakthrough, something obese and overweight people have only dreamed about, has been made at the University of Florida’s (UF) Sid Martin Biotechnology Development Institute, where Dr. Stephen Hsu and his research team have identified a ‘fat gene’ called TRIP-Br2.
When the team controlled the expression of this gene in mice, the mice
were unable to gain weight, no matter how much they ate.
If your job is task oriented, demanding your concentration, you had
better turn off your cell phones, pagers, email, and buzzers, and hang a
‘Do Not Disturb’ sign on your locked door. Why? Even a 3-second
interruption in your work can double your chances of making an error.
…. Iconic French sex symbol, actress Brigitte Bardot, threatens to follow in Gerard Depardieu’s footsteps if two 42-year-old circus elephants
diagnosed with tuberculosis are euthanized.
Scientists often struggle to come up with artificial means to accomplish
medical goals, when all the while nature has the answer. Such an
answer has been found in the Douglas Fir, Pseudotsuga menzietii,
which not only happens to form an ideal shape for a Christmas tree, but
also holds a very important biological agent in its needles – a natural
antimicrobial.
You’d best hurry. You don’t have much time to get your world-changing
invention to Popular Science reviewers for the 2013 ‘Garage’ Invention
Awards….
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