Written by admin on 10 February 2010
RayBiotech, Inc., today announced that they are extending the deadline for submitting applications for its Biomarker Discovery Pilot Grant program. RayBiotech will now accept applications for the pilot grants through February 22nd, 2010. “The last-minute surge in interest in the grant program has been overwhelming,” said Brett Burkholder, Director of Marketing & Business Development for RayBiotech, Inc.Norcross, GA, February 02, 2010 –(PR.com)– RayBiotech, Inc., today announced that they are extending the deadline for submitting applications for its Biomarker Discovery Pilot Grant program. RayBiotech will now accept applications for the pilot grants through February 22nd, 2010. Grant recipients will receive restricted grants of $10,000 to $20,000 worth of RayBiotech products and/or services for conducting biomarker research.
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Written by admin on 07 February 2010
Anvita Abbie, the reputed linguist from Nehru University of New Delhi, India, announced with sadness that Boa Sr, an elderly woman of 85 years and the last speaker of an ancient language from the Andaman Islands just died.
The lost language was part of a group of languages spoken only by indigenous tribes of Andaman Islands (India). It is believed to be of an African origins, some of its forms of verbal communication dated more than 70,000 years old.
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Written by admin on 07 February 2010
The researchers concluded that an aggressive personality, temperamental and intolerant, could be a sign of evolution.
On the contrary, an attitude manifested by tolerance and generosity, should be an indicator of lower development, new study shows. Researchers have studied two different types of monkeys – the chimpanzee and less evolved but friendly, bonobo (pygmy chimpanzee), two of the closest relatives of man.
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Written by admin on 15 December 2008
Energetic shield
In fiction, this item consists of an invisible hull of force, meant to protect a certain body against weapons or elements by rejecting or absorbing their impact. The force field is projected onto the surface of or in the space around an object and works through absorption or reflection of an attack’s energy.
Can it be realized? It is debatable. Scientists take this possibility into account, however, there are a number of impediments to overcome. The issue would mean firstly projecting energy in a solid shape. The concerned costs would be enormous and the concept would go beyond the present technologic capacity. Efforts have been undertaken towards setting up protecting shields in case of spaceships which penetrate Earth’s magnetic field. They have regarded the production of a positively charged plasma cloud around the ship, which would prevent the sun’s positively charged particles from coming into contact with the ship’s steel structure. However, the exact developing status of the project is not known. Read the rest of this entry »
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Written by admin on 12 December 2008
…today’s dreams may be tomorrow’s realities
Interstellar travel
We have become familiar with the concept of interstellar travel by means of literature and science-fiction movies. It basically consists in the movement of a spatial vehicle through the galaxy at light speed over huge distances. This form of transportation is by far more complex than interplanetary travel, mainly due to the superior distances between stars. The possibility of managing such technology would allow the human race to reach new horizons and colonize faraway spaces of the galaxy.
Is it possible? NASA researchers believe so, as long as two major scientific conquests can take place: inventing a propulsion method which can allow reaching the maximum possible speed in the Universe and a new means of producing energy on board of the spaceship, which would give it indefinite sustenance and assure continuous functioning of all the devices. The issue of foodstuff resources is less discussed as human crew is not yet taken into account to be aboard the ship undertaking such a journey. Read the rest of this entry »
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Written by admin on 11 December 2008
Computer expert Aubrey de Grey, author of the bestselling non-fiction “ Ending aging” is sure of having drawn, in his work, the theoretical basis of scientific conquests meant to allow people to control their biologic aging and live hundreds to thousands of years. Read the rest of this entry »
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Written by admin on 08 December 2008
Creating artificial life has stopped being a theme for science fiction novels and may be achieved in reality in the next three to ten years, states Jack Szostak, a professor at Harvard University also well-known in the field of madicine.
According to Szostak, Harvard specialists have already managed to create a synthetic cell from basic DNA chemical compounds. Also, scientists from the Research Insitute J. Craig Venter have come up with a method to achieve a complete genome on a fully artificial way.
“ The creation of synthetic proto-cells has may demonstrate our place in the universe and reveal the mysteries of genesis, affirms Marc Bedau, director of the ProtoLife Institute in Venice, Italy. Read the rest of this entry »
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Written by admin on 03 December 2008
A photograph made by NASA during a Mars mission and published recently, brings to life new dispute among scientists. The shocking image, presents a formation that looks like a tree trunk, which again brings up question about the existence of past or present life on the Red Planet.
Scientists at NASA said that is only an interpretation,made by people who discover unknown objects and try to associate them with pictures stored in their memory. Read the rest of this entry »
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Written by admin on 29 October 2008
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ccording to a new expertise, about half of American doctors regularly treat their patients by aid of the Placebo method. The process consists of the usage of medicine or vitamins which don’t actually help the ailing in their conditions to improve their help, relying exclusively on their power of suggestion to healing.
” It is an impressive discovery” says Franklin G. Miller, director of the ethical research program from the US National Institutes Health and one of the study’s authors.”Placebo has gone beyond the bounds of typical treatment in medicine with help of the sugar pill applied in experiments. Now, any treatment useless to the patient is a Placebo.” Scientists have known the Placebo effect for quite some time, procedure by which the patients are given a fake or inefficient treatment, which often improves their health state, only because they expect to get better.” Read the rest of this entry »
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Written by admin on 29 October 2008
A new study shows that humans had the skill of lighting a fire 790000 years ago, an important ability which facilitated their migration process from Africa to Europe
The research of silexes discovered within the archeological site on the Jordan river bank has revealed to scholars of the Israel Jewish University the fact that the first civilizations have learned how to light a fire very early, an advantage which has allowed them to venture into the exploration and occupation of new territories. A previous study, carried out in 2004, has shown that the people knew how to preserve the fire around the same period. However, the recent discovery indicates that they were familiar with the very process of producing it, not only relying on natural phenomena such as thunder. The independence which this early discovery has given them has influenced and eased the migration towards northern territories, the researchers affirm. Read the rest of this entry »
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RayBiotech, Inc., today announced that they are extending the deadline for submitting applications for its Biomarker Discovery Pilot Grant program. RayBiotech will now accept applications for the pilot grants through February 22nd, 2010. “The last-minute surge in interest in the grant program has been overwhelming,” said Brett Burkholder, Director of Marketing & Business Development for RayBiotech, Inc.
