Biology and science discoveries since 2006-2007

Speaking about the biology and science discoveries since 2006-2007, in November 2007, molecular biologist James Thomson (University of Wisconsin) and Shinya Yamanaka (Kyoto University) announced that they had managed to reprogram regular skin cells to behave just the same as embryonic stem cells that may allow scientists to create stem cells and not to destroy embryos. Right now the scientists have to face the ethical issues and the U.S. government opposition caused by embryonic stem-cell research.

The scientific work is coming through its early stages, and the scientists are not sure whether reprogrammed skin cells will be as useful as embryonic stem cells. Yet, stem-cell scientists believe that embryonic research must continue. Prior to the breakthrough made by Thomson and Yamanaka, scientists in Portland announced that they had managed for the first time to clone monkeys' embryonic stem cells, implying one more step closer to human stem-cell cloning.

	Antarctic Microbes to Tell about Past and Future of Climate Change
...robes inhabit only a small portion of a huge continent, most scientists did not take them into consideration seriously. However recent discoveries and technical advances in the field of molecular biology and biogeography help scientists find that these plants and microbes are indeed very important for understanding the glacial history of our planet. Pete Convey mentioned that the new study may contribute to answer...
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	Computer Simulation Unveils Unexpected Process on the Surface of the Sun
...Solar granulations (the relatively light patterns) and sunspots (dark spots). Picture taken by the sun telescope of the Swedish Royal Science Academy. Courtesy of V. Zakharov / MPI Solar System Research There is no other star that is observed and studies as much as the Sun - the center of solar system. However, no one could say that we know very much about it: its surface still hides many secrets, which are still to be d...
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	The Nobel Prize 2007 Has Been Given Away
...Right after the Ig Nobel Prize Awards has taken place, serious people from Stockholm have come into play. It is a fact that the most renown and prestigious scientific award is the Nobel Prize, which takes place once a year in the Swedish capital. The Nobel Prize is awarded in five nominations: Medicine, Physics, Chemistry, Peace and Economics (the latter only since 1969). This year's first Nobel Prize was awarded for me...
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	Russia's Internet Award Was Given Away
...ZHE" (from the Russian word "ezh" - hedgehog). The award has become a yearly event since 1999. This year's contest had 2 rounds: in the period from 19 to 23 March the jury has elected the nominees and has also named the finalists in each category. The winners were selected, respectively, in the second round of the contest. The "ROTOR-2007" Award had over 25 categories, where one web site or person has taken its, his...
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	The most important inventions and discoveries of the humanity
...second most important discovery, following the Mendeleev's period table of elements, was the discovery of iron processing (Egypt 3500 B.C.); - transistor discovery was the invention of (John Bardeen and colleagues in 1948); - fourth invention was declared the glass processing (circa 2200 B.C in South-Western Iran); - fifth discovery was named the invention of the optical microscope in the 17th century; - invention of ...
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	Beautiful flirty women choose machos for procreation
...ttractiveness, study says. Recent studies on the related theme proved that women are receptive to men's smell at certain time of their periods. The masculine-looking man featuring firm square chin and keen brows are seen as good partners for short-term relationships, while women are still inclined to spend a lifetime with more feminine looking men. According to a new research that was conducted at University of Stir...
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	New Electronic Display to Be Used on Clothes and Beer Cans
...One of the latest inventions in the field of light emitting devices might change the way people light their homes and design clothes. The device represents a thin film of plastic able to conduct electricity and create solar power. Scientists working on the international project are looking forward to bring the organic light emitting devices to the masses. Thus the invention could significantly cut costs by billions of ...
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	Nano-nose to help identify illnesses
...ticles are used by U.S. researchers to 'smell' the scent of illnesses in fluids of the body. The researchers used nanoparticles of gold with different coatings to distinguish among different proteins and detect the illness, as reported by the New Scientist. According to Vince Rotello from the University of Massachusetts the human nose has a series of receptors, which react differently to different compounds. Thus it is...
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	Worms and Humans Are One Family
...ow on if someone says that 'you think like a worm', it would not be that offensive. As a matter of fact, it is now a scientific fact, as results of a research of the European laboratory for molecular biology in Heidelberg show that the human brain and the entire human nervous system finds its roots in the most primitive creatures - such as worms and insects. The human brain has always been a very attractive object for ...
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	Ten Unnoticed Effects of Global Warming
...The LiveScience Magazine has published a Top 10 global warming side-effects that not everyone knows about. Global warming is, actually, not only about ice melting in the Arctic and temperature rising. It could turn into very strange things. Here they are: 10. More aggravated and aggressive allergies (the "MAAAA") People are experiencing more aggravated and aggressive allergy fits and, partly, experts blame the global wa...
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	Bird Flu - Back to Europe
...he German Ministry of Consumer Right Protection, Food Supplies and Agriculture. The H5N1 type of bird flu is the most dangerous type of this virus to people. Tests in German laboratories for microbiology have proven that three swans were infected by the dangerous H5N1 strain in a lake near Nürnberg, in the Southern land of Bavaria. Scientists also examine two other specimen taken from a wild duck and a wild goose...
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	Scientists Found a Way to Store and Erase Memories Long After Their Formation
...The Head of the Weizmann Institute's Neurobiology Department, Prof. Yadin Dudai, together with his co-workers tried to answer questions related to human's brain, and namely what really happens inside our brain when we try to remember something and are our memories recorded in a stable physical change, like writing a permanent inscription on a clay tablet. Scientists found that the process, during which a person stores...
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	How to Deal With Too Much Attention at Work (for women)
...New social researches offer women some extra ways of dealing with too much attention at the office. Here are the five virtual walls that women can built up around them to cut off any unwanted and unnecessary attention. Wall No.1. Put a jacket on and forget about being sexy: Researchers suggest wearing clothes that men don't really like. Psychologists have proved that sexy clothes, such as a short skirt or an open jacke...
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	Blind People Help Sighted to Discover the Unseen
...ol it is completely dark. People cannot even see their own bodies. The project under the name of Dialogue in the Dark was for the first time developed in 1989. It was based on an idea given by Dr. Andreas Heinecke, a social entrepreneur. He had the idea of making marginalized people a part of active society. About 2 million people around the world were able to undergo the experience. Dialogue in the Dark Japan, TBS ...
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	Animal Crew Returns from Space
...snails and cockroaches on board, will land in the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan after 12 days of experiments. During a 12 days' flight there were 26 unique experiments conducted in chemistry, biology, physics and bio-technology, funded by Russia and the European Space Agency. Mice were placed in air-tight module cells equipped with life-support system, were they were videotaped. Scientists tried to study the i...
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