When you are forced to use a prosthetic device, it usually is quite cumbersome and has disadvantages. But, with this is going to change with the help of rockets. The new prototype rocket-powered mechanical arm can lift about 9 to 12 kilograms – three to four times more than current commercial prosthetic arms – and […]

Some neurons, which are sensitive for the amount of glucose in blood, appears to play an important roll in the cause of Diabetes mellitus type 2 (adult-onset diabetes). These neurons become active when more glucose appears in the blood, which causes an increase in sugar-uptake. If these neurons are made insensitive, artificially, for glucose, diabetes […]

Meth, crystal meth, speed, ice, crank, tweek/tweak, glass, uppers, yaba, shabu shabu. Just some synonyms for the drug methamphetamine. After seeing the documentary on National Geographic about meth, I got interested in the way the drug works and effects the body. The results of use are, although the process is slow, disasterious, both on inside […]

Mosquitoes do not bite everyone; some people are more prone to get bitten, while others are not interesting for mosquitoes. A general saying is that the bitten people are more delicious. Of course, this is ridiculous. Researchers have found specific cells in one of the three organs that make up the mosquitoes nose tuned to […]

By changing the DNA on two places, scientists have developed a super-muscled mouse, with four times the amount of muscle as usual. The protein myostatine was already known to slow down the muscle grow. Animals and humans without this protein develop extra big muscle cords as well as a lot of muscle cords. It is […]