Health Discovery Corporation, a molecular diagnostics company that uses patent protected advanced mathematical techniques for personalized medicine, has introduced an iPhone application that can potentially save your life. MelApp is downloadable from the Healthcare & Fitness category in the Apple App Store. What it ... |
6 July 2011
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For the billions of people living in Asia, having a fairer complexion is one of the main demands the population has of pharmaceutical and cosmetic companies. Their demands could be satisfied more naturally in the near future, thanks to a new discovery made by researchers in Taiwan. While analyzing the Cinnamomum suba... |
31 March 2011
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Researchers from the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Cutaneous Biology Research Center (CBRC) have found a switch that blocks the natural pigmentation of the skin, and this discovery could lead to a new way of protecting the skin, thus reducing cancer risks.They say that blocking the action of this enzyme called... |
15 October 2010
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In a scientific paper published in the latest issue of the esteemed scientific publication Nature, researchers in China detail the appearance of a small dinosaur that lived more than 125 million years ago. Known as Sinosauropteryx, the tiny animal, which wasn't even tall enough to reach your knee, appears to hav... |
28 January 2010
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African Americans may be more predisposed to developing nicotine addiction than their paler-skinned peers, a new scientific study has determined. The paper also reveals the fact that obtained darker skin, as in that obtained from prolonged sun exposure, and not through genetics, from mother to infants, is especially ... |
9 May 2009
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Scientists discovered that the antioxidant melanin, which normally generates eye and skin color, is somehow involved in developing obesity. Analyses found increased quantities of the substance being produced in fat cells pertaining to the bodies of people suffering from obesity. Doctors say that drugs mimicking the e... |
30 October 2008
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It is simplistic to differentiate people in races based on the skin tones. What we call Blacks can be separated in many races, equally or not related between them and other races; the term White is misleading too. In the case of the so-called Mongoloid race, skin tones vary significantly. But no matter what, skin col... |
27 February 2008
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You won't believe it, but the suicide blonde was Neanderthal! A new research has found that some Neanderthals were perhaps red haired and white skinned, just like modern Europeans are. "I am quite sure this variant arose like the red hair variants in modern Europeans", said lead author Carles Lalueza-Fox, of the... |
26 October 2007
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What makes people black or white (and not only people)? It's the pigment melanin (or its scarcity), which blackens the skin and hair in mammals. The pigment is synthesized in specialized cells, melanocytes and then delivered to other cells. But not all the skin cells are loaded with melanin. A team at the Massac... |
7 September 2007
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In two centuries' time, the suicide blond will no longer exist. Scientists say that in 200 years the mix of races will make natural blond hair become a rarity. Researchers cited by the French publication "Le Monde" say that the number of natural blond people will decrease significantly in the following decades. ... |
17 July 2007
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Mushrooms are not only tasty but they have remarkable properties. Now researchers have found that dark-colored fungi can even "feed" with radiation, using its energy.This type of fungus could be employed from more efficient solar cells to feeding astronauts in space, while explaining why sunbaths are so beneficial. T... |
23 May 2007
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