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Light Cigarettes Yield the Same Nicotine Level as Regular Ones

It has always been marketed and believed that light cigarettes only deliver smaller quantities of nicotine to the brain receptors than the regular ones. A recent study proves otherwise, specifically that the nicotine impact of the two cigarette types is sensitively similar.A new UCLA research has proved that the fact...

29 September 2008
05:03 GMT

Insects Have an Alien Type of Olfaction

Many aliens in the SF movies are inspired from insects; or perhaps vertebrates represent strange aliens for them. A new study to be published in "Nature" by a team of researchers from Rockefeller University and the University of Tokyo adds another proof of the fact that insects have evolved very differently from othe...

14 April 2008
04:49 GMT

The 'Itch Gene' Has Been Found!

At last, you went out with that sexy bomb and suddenly that crazy itch has started. You feel like scratching anywhereon the table, chair, floor. Well, researchers finally found that a mere protein is behind this shameful sensation of yours. A team led by Dr. Zhou-Feng Chen at Washington University School of Medicine...

26 July 2007
07:11 GMT

Marijuana Shapes Our Brains Even from the Womb

After all, marijuana is not so bad. Cannabis-made marijuana may be easing the pain, but marijuana-like chemicals produced by your body may have head brain cells to make proper connections while you are the size of a bean inside the womb.These chemicals, called cannabinoids, were found to work like guideposts for neur...

26 May 2007
09:21 GMT

Rat Noses into Yeasts to Get Bomb Detectors!

When we put together genes from 2-3 species, the results can be astonishing. But fantasist hybrid mutants like the "Ninja Turtles" would be of no use. Instead, this method was employed by a team at Temple University School of Medicine, which has made a new biosensor that finds explosives and could be employed for che...

9 May 2007
07:09 GMT

Testosterone Induces Three Times More Bladder Cancer in Men than Women

Bladder cancer turns into a nightmare the life of its victims, triggering excruciating piss problems. The disease affects about three times as many men as women: 50,000 men are estimated to develop it this year compared to 17,000 women in the US. Now a team led by Dr Chawnshang Chang, of the University of Rochester ...

23 April 2007
06:40 GMT


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