My cousin who’s in her second year in high school, asked me to look for five Filipino chemists and their contributions or inventions. Unlike the other times she asked help from me about school work, I could not give any answer the minute she asked me a question.
Which is quite disturbing on my part as [...]
Would you smell rotten-eggs to stay young? Okay, it’s an exaggeration. Well you don’t have to literally smell rotten eggs but just get a sniff of the gas that smells like rotten eggs and you could cheat death and stay young because you’ll end up in suspended animation. At least this is what some scientists [...]
On the others side of the globe, the latest breaking news is that renowned DNA expert and Nobel Prize-winner James Watson has finally resigned from the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory to which he has been its Chancellor and board member for 43 years.
For all those who haven’t heard of who James Watson, he is one [...]
Personalized DNA? You can bet a monkey’s butt on it. Which is not really surprising when one would consider that we humans are among the most dispersed organisms in the planet. We inhabit almost every terrain on Earth and continue to expand our territories, often with harmful effects to other species.
This also justifies the difference between ethnic groups and help us understand how they adapted to their specific environments; e.g. Why Asians have a smaller body build compared to their European cousins and why our African brothers are more resistant to HIV infections compared to our South American cousins and so forth.
Come to think of it, isn’t true that you’re barely using the full capacity of your computer’s horsepower? You conduct a performance test only to find out that the fraction of your computer’s full capacity and capabilities that you use on your average e-life could be delivered by an another computer costing less than what’s on the price tag of your machine?
Simply put, you’re not using your computer to its full capacity, hence its full monetary value. That’s your hard earned-money idling away inside a metal box with a lease to be on the “latest model†shelf for barely three years.
Worry not too much. For there is hope in turning this investment into something worth every centavo you’ve sweated and toiled over for it.
They used pregnant lab mice and exposed the embryos, or baby mice inside, to high doses of ultrasound at long periods of time. The results were quite disturbing as it turned out that the ultrasound had disrupted the embryo’s brain development and caused some abnormalities. More studies are needed to confirm or know if the same thing could happen to human embryos. So far, there has been no documented case of using ultrasound as having bad effects on human embryos. Still, the study is just a reminder that every medical tool or technique should be used responsibly and with great care.
Meanwhile, the most recent research news I’ve come across about the good medical use of the substance is a study that “Found Nicotine To Protect Against Parkinson’s-like Brain Damage.”
Don’t rejoice yet and start puffing tobaccos, cigars and cigarettes because smoking is still dangerous to your health as illustrated by Jam in Filipino Health Issues and Problems.
