Latest discoveries in medicine

	Happiness Might Appear Before Fortunate Events Occur, Study Says
...ot the only factor to influence our well-being. Those who will have their life run in a more balanced way are predominantly inclined to feel happy long before the fortunate occurrence in their life. Latest psychological studies have found that the feeling of happiness is not related to outside circumstances or turning points of one's life. This means that prosperity, marriage or health do not determine our subjective wel...
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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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	The Nobel Prize 2007 Has Been Given Away
...y since 1969). This year's first Nobel Prize was awarded for medical achievements to three scientists, who have dedicated their researches to genetics. Their researches have brought them to breaking discoveries concerning embryonic stem cells and ways of recombining the DNA code in mammals. These discoveries led to a new technology, named gene targeting in mice. This technology is applied in many areas of biomedicine, wh...
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	HIV Drug Persists in Breast Milk
...drug helps reduce the risk of HIV transmission by 50 percent, to nearly 13 percent. But very few women who live in the sub-Saharan Africa have access to the zidovudine and/or nevirapine. In their latest study, researchers from Stanford tried to better understand the issue. Scientists observed a group of 32 women infected with HIV living in Zimbabwe. Together with his associates David Katzenstein has performed research...
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	Dark Matter Hunters Were Among the Candidates for 2008 Nobel Prize in Physics
...ng to take place in Stockholm and Oslo on December 10, the day of Alfred Nobel's death. Yesterday the Nobel Prize was given away to European scientists who worked in the field of medicine, making discoveries of viruses that lead to AIDS and cervical cancer. In 1983 Francoise Barre-Sinoussi and Luc Montagnier of France discovered HIV. The two shared the award with the German scientist Harald zur Hausen, who discovered ...
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	European Union is Angry on Microsoft
...e with Brussels, the company faced further fines for seeking unreasonable prices from the software developers for vital data. The European Union criticized Microsoft. The EU executive stated that the latest formal charges might lead the American software corporation to additional daily penalties. Jonathan Todd, the competition spokesman of European Commission, said that the EU, for the first time in its antitrust policy...
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	DNA research approaches the origins of human beings
...afic project unite to collect the DNA database all over the world so to make every person aware of the place where his or her ancestors come from. The National Geographic Society together with IBM initiate a global project where more than 10,000 inhabitants will have their DNA tested to make up a huge database. Efforts of well-known scientists in geography and genetic medicine will reside in 10 world regions to find tr...
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	Aggressive women - genes' fault
...A new research has found the true cause of aggressive behavior in women. The University of Pittsburgh conducted a study where it was revealed that variations in serotonin receptor gene are closely related to hostility and ill temper in women. As it was previously showed by various researches, the hormone serotonin plays an important part in regulating aggressive behavior for animals and people. Thus the lower level of ...
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	Scientist's call upon policy makers on global warming
...es. Nowadays no one should feel indifferent about the serious consequences that global warming entails. One of the main goals set on the summit is to consolidate for appeal to policy makers. The latest Congress debates held in Washington, where Bush administration was criticized for inadequate response to global warming danger, showed that there is a necessity for scientific appeal to policy makers. Thus a new commit...
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	Chemical Found in Cosmetics, Soaps and Lubricants is Hazardous for Men
...Till now scientists have been aware of the fact that exposure to phthalates is linked to reproductive issues. Recently they have discovered that this chemical, found in nearly everything including plastics, shampoos, cosmetics, lubricants, paint and soaps, is strongly connected to abdominal obesity and insulin resistance in adult males. This scientific discovery was made by the University of Rochester Medical Center. Sci...
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	A Trojan-horse strategy selected to fight bacteria
...Researchers at the University of Washington have probably found a way to defeat the bacteria, which become more and more resistant to drugs. A new method of fighting such bacteria was recently used and it proved to be successful on mice. One of the problems of today's medical researches is the fact that bacteria become more and more resistant to antibiotics. The medicine cannot provide an effective drug to kill all the c...
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	CBS acquires an online high school sports network
...in promoting not only the sports stars, but will also show the entire nation the upcoming stars in all kinds of national sports. He said that this transaction will keep millions of people informed on latest high school sports events and will entertain sport communities based around high schools. Mr. Beal will retain his seat, yet obliged to report to Brian Bedol, the President and CEO of the CSTV Networks, Inc. MaxPreps...
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	Alcohol kills faster than ecstasy
...heroin and cocaine. Tobacco was placed ninth and fell within a category B drug, after amphetamine. Such dangerous drugs as cannabis, LSD, ecstasy were left far near the end of the drug list. This latest study raised the question that government's drug policy was not paying enough attention to modern state of affairs and didn't take notice of the scientific findings. There should be no surprise that ecstasy drug was...
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	Successful Birth of Live Rhinoceros from Frozen-Thawed Sperm
...Today there are about 20,000 rhinoceros, which continue to disappear. One of the species is already extinct and other features only four animals. The breeding of rhinoceros becomes very difficult as more of them age and become ill. Scientists from Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research, Berlin, Zoo Budapest and the University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna, claim to be successful in giving life to a rhinoceros ...
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	Animated Cursors is now Windows' Vulnerability
...Users who work with the latest versions of Windows should be aware that they are at a great risk of being attacked by hackers. This statement was made by Microsoft's officials. There is a certain vulnerability in the operating system that can affect all recent versions of Windows, this includes Vista. In a security advisory the company's representatives stated that Windows' software is flawed in a way it operates with its...
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