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Advancement in DNA Research may Bring Back Woolly Mammoth

...NAS) said only certain types of errors appeared in ancient DNA. As such, its not that difficult to piece to...ce fiction,' said Paabo. 'Retrieval of DNA from ancient specimens is relatively easy now,' said Alan Cooper, of the University of Adelaide in Australia. ...

Pride, Even the Hubristic Kind, Allows Us to Survive

...tions must have offered some survival help for our ancient ancestors. Jessica Tracy and Richard Robins of the University of California, Davis, reviewed a number of past studies of human behaviour connected to pride. They found that like other fundamental emotions, expressions of pride are known across ag...

RNA Play a Vital Role in Gene Activity

...dicine have discovered. The finding implies that ancient RNA molecules can orchestrate gene activity across vast portions of the human genome - a cell's genetic blueprint. It also suggests they may be important in cancer development and stem cell maintenance. Overall, the work adds another brick to the gro...

Human Induced Global Warming Drying Up Arctic Ponds

Global warming is now taking its toll on the ancient Arctic ponds as well, according to new study by a researcher from Queen's University, Kingston, Canada. These ponds, which lie atop bedrock, freeze solid in the winter and then melt for a few months each summer, becoming hot spots of activity in t...

Our Ancestors Possessed Much Smaller Brains Than It was Thought

An ancient ancestor of ours was mentally less advanced than expected about 29 millions years ago, a new study by a Duke University primatologist has revealed. Elwyn Simons identified the second and the most intact cranium found till date of the Aegyptopithec...

Modern Medicine Originated in Egypt, Not Greece

...e origins of modern medicine lay along the Nile in ancient Egypt and not with Hippocrates and the Greeks, a r.... "Classical scholars have always considered the ancient Greeks, particularly Hippocrates, as being the fathers of medicine but our findings suggest that the...

Yoga Enthusiasts Oppose Patenting Yoga Overseas

...eigners. The data, which will be translated from ancient Sanskrit and Tamil texts, will be stored digitally and be available in five international languages....

Protein Folds Research Offers Insight into Metabolic Evolution

...most ancient. Protein architecture has preserved ancient structural designs as fossils of ancient biochemistries, the authors wrote. The team used data from two international collections of geneti...

Specific Imbalance Between Two Peptides may Cause Alzheimer's

...er. "They are like the Yin and Yang in Taiji, an ancient Chinese philosophy. When the peptides are produced in the correct proportions, the brain is healthy; but when that delicate balance is changed, pathological changes will occur in the brain and the persons memories become hazy, leading to eventual dem...

US Denies Granting Patents on Yoga Postures

... row in India over reported attempts to patent the ancient Indian practice of yoga overseas, the US denied granting patents on yoga positions. In the same breath, the US embassy said here that it has granted patents on "new and non-obvious devices that may be used in conjunction with yoga". However, thos...

Introducing Thalasso, the Greeks Way to a Healthy Life

... the sea. Thalasso has made some things applied in ancient Greece by Hippocrates beloved today. "Thalasso uses the power of the sea with its potential to hold trace elements, vitamins, proteins and minerals that are in the water, algae and mud," said Katrin Hofrichter of the association of German Thalasso ...

Ancient Healing Technique Gains New Popularity in Iraq

... containers. "The Assyrians, the Chinese and the ancient Egyptians all used to practice cupping to draw out...Murtada Abu Ali, 45, has become a regular for this ancient treatment known by its Arabic name of 'hijama', or sucking, and says it helps him in a way no modern...

Japanese Flower Art Helps Calm a Frantic Moscow

...mpire collapse around it in 1991, an expert in the ancient art of Ikebana flower arranging flew in from Japan... Yamada is one of dozens of masters sharing the ancient secrets of Ikebana with students seeking refuge from the frantic pace of the booming capital. "Th...

Asthma can Be Checked, Experts are Confident

...ho didn't carry the strain. "Helicobacter is an ancient organism that everyone used to have in the stomach - and now it's disappearing," Dr. Blaser said. "Less than 10 per cent of kids in Canada and the U.S. currently carry it ... At the same time, asthma rates have been rising." This suggests, he s...

Global Warming 55 Million Years Ago Too, Thanks to Fossil Fuels

...t core drilled off Florida supported the theory of ancient global warming. The core contained the remnants of tiny marine creatures called foraminifera. Their shells preserve a chemical record of how the balance of carbon in the ocean changed dramatically about 55 million years ago. At the same time, tempe...

Ulcer Causing Microbe Linked To Protection From Asthma

...cter is part of the natural human body. It's quite ancient in humans and has been living in the human stomach for a very long”, he opines. AN...

Single Drug Dose Cures Malaria in Mice

...potent, long lasting synthetic drugs modeled on an ancient Chinese// herbal folk remedy. The team also has developed several other compounds, which defeated the febrile disease in rodents after three oral doses. These peroxide compounds, containing a crucial oxygen-oxygen unit, promise not only to be more...

Tai Chi - More Than Magic

Experts vouch for the ancient martial art known as Tai Chi- especially for its g...sterious and potentially healing force or not, the ancient martial art known as Tai Chi can help bring about health and fitness. Says Dr. Michael Irwin, a ...

Rainwater to Receive a Fillip in India

...ted 4000 years ago in the Palestine and Greece. In ancient Rome, residences were built with individual cisterns and paved courtyards to capture rain water to augment water from city's aqueducts. As early as the third millennium BC, farming communities in Baluchistan and Kutch impounded rainwater and used it ...

Yoga Helping Fight Autism Down Under

...le Down Under. Australian experts dabbling in this ancient Indian science believe it can help fight autism//. A not-for-profit organisation Yoga in the Community (YITC) is already employing yoga for this purpose. This group "aims to support the mental, physical and emotional well-being of various special n...

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