Finger Regenerated Using Pig Bladder Extract
	The process of regenerating fingers would not benefit only injured soldiers or hurt civilians, but could also be a first step on the way of regenerating entire limbs or damaged parts of skin (in the case of scars), hearts and spinal cords. Some animals can regenerate their limbs naturally, like the salamanders (starfishes and octopuses are less relevant in studies aimed towards future human applied technologies). Up to about age 2, people ... [read more >>]
	06 May 2008, 14:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The Largest Female Facial Tumor Ever
	This is a female record: the 15-year-old Dao Thi Lai from Vietnam has a 15-pound (7 kg) tumor. The huge tumor started to develop when she was just three and it has now covered a large part of her face and neck; soon, it could make her blind and block her air passages. Nevertheless, the girl does have a chance: a team of surgeons at the University of Miami will remove the growth that already deformed the girl's face in an ... [read more >>]
	24 April 2008, 14:11GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

First Tomography of a Well Preserved Baby Mammoth
	In May 2007, a baby mammoth found in the Russian permafrost represented the best preserved mammoth ever found (and even the best preserved prehistoric animal). The animal looked like it had just died, missing only its hair. The 37,000-year-old female specimen was baptized "Lyuba" after the wife of reindeer breeder and hunter Yuri Khudi, who discovered it in Russia's Arctic Yamalo-Nenetsk region. Lyuba is weighi ... [read more >>]
	14 April 2008, 02:39GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

World's Largest Breast Implants: 153.67 cm (60.5 in) in Circumference!
	Nature cannot do what a (large) piece of synthetic material can do. Moreover, natural large breasts drop with the age, while the synthetic balloons look like melons well after the menopause. Pamela Anderson imposed a standard in female breast size, firing the minds of many around the world. After she and a countless number of starlets and singers passed trough this type of operation, it's clear that the trend is on an as ... [read more >>]
	02 February 2008, 06:43GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Beating Lab Made Hearts!
	Broken feelings may not be repaired through engineering, but broken hearts can be. In fact, heart attack kills annually 50,000 people, only in US, and it is experienced by 550,000. A new research published in "Nature Medicine" and carried on at the University of Minnesota is the first ever to have built a beating heart tissue in the lab, through the process of decellularization, using dead rat and pig hearts. "The idea wo ... [read more >>]
	14 January 2008, 02:50GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Complete Dinosaur Mummy Found!
	Mummies can go far beyond the era of the ancient pharaohs. Even to the dinosaur era. Researchers have just revealed the discovery of an amazingly preserved "dinosaur mummy", containing a lot of tissues and bones inside skin wrapping, including well preserved tendons and ligaments, which are seldom discovered nowadays, when most dinosaur remains that are found are only scattered bones. The discovery of the 67-million-year-old ... [read more >>]
	04 December 2007, 02:59GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Women from Developing Countries Have Healthier Boobs
	Breasts do not differ only in shape and size. It is much more complicated than that. The tissue of the female breast comprises a mixture of fatty and glandular tissues and also connective tissues, like collagen (support fibrous proteins), ligaments and blood vessels, but the proportion of every breast tissue is different from woman to woman. Women with much more glandular tissue have denser tissue on a mammogram and are about four times ... [read more >>]
	29 November 2007, 14:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Women Living in Rural Areas Have Healthier Boobs
	Well, we know that healthy food and fresh unpolluted air in the rural areas are the secret of the strong health in the case of people living in the country, but this discovery goes deeper: women living in urban areas have even unhealthy denser breasts, fact that turns them more prone to developing breast cancer, as found by a new research presented at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA). &quo ... [read more >>]
	27 November 2007, 05:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

How Do Lasers Work in Surgery?
	The steel scalpel is rapidly disappearing from the surgeons’ arsenal of instruments. Laser now performs from cosmetic to brain surgery, but the technique remains mysterious – we know what it does, but we don’t know why it does it. This is exactly the question to which a new research – published online in Physical Review Letters on October 10: how UV lasers (like those employed in LASIK eye surgery) slice tissues – is attempting to prov ... [read more >>]
	29 October 2007, 07:42GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Bras Do Not Stop Boobs from Bouncing
	Nice breasts are a crucial ‘ingredient’ of femininity, but women play a heavy price for this: no matter if poorly-endowed or too generous, bouncing boobs are not really ‘supported’ by ordinary bras. A new research made at the University of Portsmouth in England found that while exercising, women's breasts bounce more than previously thought, with a vertical movement up to 8 inches (21 cm) compared with previous data of 6 inches (16 ... [read more >>]
	12 September 2007, 14:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

How to Treat a Severe Rattlesnake Bite
	Snakes and lizards are the sole groups of reptiles prospering after the extinction of the dinosaurs. But which is the secret of these legless lizards called snakes? Just one word: venom! Snakes developed (or rather inherited from their lizard ancestors, related to monitor lizards and gila monsters) a terrific chemical weapon for attack and defense, with the minimum injury risk. Of the today's about 2,000 species of snakes, approxim ... [read more >>]
	10 August 2007, 14:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

New Injections Dissolve Body Fat
	The way you look is a combination of genetics, diet and sports. When all three are not right, the result is lousy. Giving up the habit of eating junk food and starting practicing sports is the nightmare of any couch potato. Here comes the salvation: some American doctors say a new technique called lipodissolve is a viable alternative to surgical liposuction. "The procedure, which has yet to be approved by the U.S. Food ... [read more >>]
	27 July 2007, 14:11GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The Hunt for Dinosaur Flesh and DNA
	The last dinosaur died 65 million years ago. So, after so much time, all you expect to find are mineralized fossils of them, in other words just bones and teeth, as flesh rapidly rots. So you can imagine the surprise of the paleontologists when they found soft tissue in a 70 million-year-old fossil of Tyrannosaurus rex. It was a first and this started the debate whether the dinosaur DNA could be retrieved just like in the "Jurassi ... [read more >>]
	27 July 2007, 04:19GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Male and Female Hearts Work Differently
	Phil Collins was very wrong saying “Two hearts beating just like one”. We do not know how many die annually from a broken heart but at least 600,000 do it because of heart disease. But there are significant sex differences in adult humans regarding the heart's anatomy and functions. Similar differences have also been found in the case of the rainbow trout in a study made by a team of the Department of Biological Science ... [read more >>]
	30 April 2007, 03:12GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

New-Grown Hearts through Bioengineering on the Way
	They can grow a piece of bone or a piece of skin, but with the latest technologies, it seems they can also grow new hearts, or at least pieces, for heart attack survivors, children born with heart malformations, or those with clogged or weak blood vessels. A team at the University of Michigan Medical School describes in the journal Regenerative Medicine that scientists are closer than ever to “bioengineering” heart pieces, heart valves ... [read more >>]
	02 April 2007, 09:18GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Fatty Tissue That Burns Fat Is a Modified Muscle!
	Humans and mammals possess two types of fatty tissue: white and brown. The white fat tissue is what we see as “fat”, that influences body shape and most people are bothered about. The brown tissue, on the other hand, is a fat tissue whose role is that of burning fat, so that the energy from fats is released as heat in order to keep us warm (thermogenesis). A team led by Barbara Cannon and Jan Nedergaard at the Wenner- ... [read more >>]
	15 March 2007, 06:55GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia