Search Results for 'Life'

The Biology of Human Longevity: Inflammation, Nutrition, and...

This is a monumental book, which reviews and discuss over 3,000 scientific publications on mechanisms of aging and longevity, with special emphasis on the role of inflammation in senescence and age-related degenerative diseases. The author [...]

Posted On : Sep, 22 2007 | Comments : 0

Computers could help people make end-of-life medical decisio...

Computers could someday make end-of-life decisions for people who can’t communicate and haven’t left a record of their wishes. Bioethicist David Wendler of the National Institutes of Health says the program predicts what medic [...]

Posted On : Jul, 27 2007 | Comments : 0

Team claims synthetic life feat

Scientists in the US speak they have in use a major pace towards creating life from scrape in the laboratory. Dr Craig Venter says in the Science journal that his team successfully transplanted an entire genome from one bacterium cell [...]

Posted On : Jun, 29 2007 | Comments : 0

Ocean Life in Hot Water

Warmth Misers Jellyfish will in fact flourish in warmer oceans which is basically awful news for dozens of fish orders, says biologist Martin Attrill of the University of Plymouth in England. This professor and teacher has examined 50 years [...]

Posted On : Apr, 30 2007 | Comments : 0

Origin of the Earth and Life

Scientific estimates place the origin of the Universe at between 10 and 20 billion years ago. The theory currently with the most acceptance is the Big Bang Theory, the idea that all matter in the Universe existed in a cosmic egg (smaller th [...]

Posted On : Apr, 14 2007 | Comments : 0

Does life exists other than Earth?

The proximity of the Earth to the sun, the make-up of the Earth's crust which includes silicate mixtures, presence of water and the size of the Earth suggest we may be unique in our own solar system, at least. Mars is smaller, farther fro [...]

Posted On : Apr, 07 2007 | Comments : 0

Where did life originate?

In 1969, a meteorite which is the left over bits from the origin of the solar system landed near Allende, Mexico. The Allende Meteorite and others of its sort have been analyzed and found to contain amino acids, the building blocks of pro [...]

Posted On : Apr, 06 2007 | Comments : 0

Rising Carbon Dioxide Levels Threaten Marine Life

Like a piece of chalk dissolving in vinegar, marine life with hard shells is in danger of being dissolved by increasing acidity in the oceans. Ocean acidity is rising as sea water absorbs more carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere fro [...]

Posted On : Mar, 22 2007 | Comments : 0

Artificial Pacemakers- Life Savers!

The increasing rate of diseases and deaths related to heart problems has led to the invention of one of the biggest victory of medical sceince-The Artificial Pacemakers. Disease or ageing can damage the heart's natural pacemaker and thus t [...]