One blood group fits everyone

	Chemical Found in Cosmetics, Soaps and Lubricants is Hazardous for Men
...ery was made by the University of Rochester Medical Center. Scientists think that even in low doses the exposures to phthalates and several other common chemicals might reduce the levels of testosterone in men. Richard Stahlhut, A Preventive Medicine resident at the University of Rochester said that the exposure to such chemicals leads to the increase of obesity rates and an epidemic of such related disorders like Type 2...
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	Now one blood group fits everyone
...A new discovery was made by international scientific team who established a way to convert one blood group into another. The finding can revolutionize medicine as it means there will be no lack of blood supplies. The study conducted by experts from University of Copenhagen published their results in Nature Biotechnology journal, where it is stated that O blood group can be a source for all the other blood types (A, ...
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	Plastic Blood and Airplanes Shifting Shapes – Close to Reality?
... The flexible circuitry could be applied for developing foldable displays. Imagine electronic pages that you will be able to put into your pocket, solar panels you will drape over tents, or just everyone wearing electronic clothes. Ninety percent of plastics are presently produced from oil but nobody knows what may happen with this product in future. The resilience is the plastic's basic characteristic that makes it ju...
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	Yawning Saves Your Brain From Overheating
...eathing thought their nose didn't yawn, while the rest had an urge to react with yawning. They also performed another experiment, where students were given a cold pack to hold to their forehead. None of them yawned unlike those who held warm pack. Experiments showed that brain cools down through nose breathing as it delivers cool blood to the brain. Additional cooling of the head brings in the same effect that's wh...
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	A Man's Satisfaction Lies in Earning More than His Pals
...A good salary is something everyone wants, but for men a better salary than their peers provides more pleasure than some other things. A study showed that when a man is paid more than his co-workers and if this fact is unfair, a "reward center" is stimulated in his brain. The "reward center" of the brain is a region that gives feelings of pleasure in response to such experiences as eating good food, achieving a goal, ha...
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	U.S. to Place its Antiballistic Missile Defense System in Britain
.... The spokeswoman of the British Prime Minister Tony Blair stated that Britain was secretly lobbying for the installment of the U.S. antiballistic missile defense system for some time. She also mentioned that Britain believes that U.S. system represents an important step towards providing Europe with missile defense coverage. Right after Britain's Prime Minister announced that his country withdraws 1,600 of its soldiers...
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	First Antarctic Educational Center to be Opened Soon
...cott, and the famous French adventurer and explorer Jacques Cousteau. 2007 for Swan is of great importance. This is because it's International Polar Year. Each year the adventurer takes with him a group of teachers and students as well as the representatives of corporate sponsors to Antarctica. These trips started in 2003 and their goal is to create an educational base together with the government of Russia. A team ...
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	Growth of Emissions Predicted in the U.S. for the Next Decade
...ide emissions should not grow faster than the economy. The president's views have found supporters, who also think that the emissions will always grow in a country with a constant economic growth. One of such supporters is Mr. Myron Ebell, a member of the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a group of industries that fight for limiting emissions of gases, who stated that US has better indexes than some of the countries f...
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	DNA research approaches the origins of human beings
...uman ancestry. Aside from DNA information collected from indigenous people, other people can also have their genetic data tested and take part in the research on voluntary basis. Scott Woodward, one of John Hopkins University researches emphasizes that a person's DNA holds an enormous amount of information to discover, including the origins of all human beings. As geographic location once became a major factor to en...
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	Iraq Asks for Help to Stop Violence
...l conference in Baghdad asked Iraq's neighbors for help. He opened the conference with an address to back his efforts to stop violence in Iraq by refusing to finance attacks. Mr. Nouri al-Maliki mentioned that people who cross the country's boarder to participate in attacks whether as suicide bombers or militia members represent danger for the country and they must be stopped. His address at the conference was heard by t...
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	Scientist's call upon policy makers on global warming
...ic Science Summit Week, which started on Wednesday in New Hampshire to make up their mind on crucial changes in the North Pole that highlights global warming more than ever before. Ross Virginia, one of the organizers of the Arctic Science Summit on global warming, pre-opened the summit with a speech that was to make everyone realize the problem of the environment. She asked everyone to join scientific and policy effo...
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	Pills Against Insomnia Cause Sleepwalking
...ht eating after taking the pill reported missing food, wrappers in bed and traces of cooking in the kitchen and they can't recall eating, cooking or anything at all. The more disturbing group is the one of sleeping drivers. Such people say that all they could remember was taking a pill and going to bed. However they wake up in their pajamas in the middle of the road and being interrogated by a police officer. Fortunately...
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	To live or die - computer will decide
...r characteristics like age, illness peculiarities, nationality and others along with the information on the treatment option. The prior population-based treatment indicator was created by Wendler group after analyzing the statistic results of the survey conducted on cancer patients. They disclosed that patients are likely to choose a treatment saving their life even if it would be 1 percent chance and their mental sta...
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	A Trojan-horse strategy selected to fight bacteria
...gton 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 chronic infections occurring in wounds o...
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	River Drying Up to Lead to Freshwater Crisis
...on five are situated in Asia. These include the Yangtze, the Salween and the Ganges. In serious danger are also: Danube, that flows in Europe, African Nile and Rio Grande, flowing in South America. One of the most important issues that the report focuses on is concerned with the dams and dykes, like the ones along the Danube. The representatives of WWF stated that both dams and dykes were the cause of destruction of the...
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