Archive for November, 2007

Well all chocolate lovers have to thank brewers for making such a sweet thing as researchers have found that the origins of chocolate was from the makers of the drink more than 3,000 years ago.The researchers believe that chocolate was discovered by accident by Central American Indians making beer when they used the pulp of cacao seedpods while making the drink.It has suprised all of us that people started consuming chocolate 500 years earlier than thought.

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Thanks To Beer Brewers Who Created Chocolate thousands Years Ago

Research out of the Neurological Institute at University Hospitals Case Medical Center finds that Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) helps patients who suffer from Tourette Syndrome (TS). This first-of-its-kind study of five adults with TS determined that DBS can reduce tic frequency and severity in some people who have exhausted other medical treatments.

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New Promising Treatment For Those Patient With Tourette Syndrome

Well you all might have this question in mind and i do have because my dog catches everything in the dark.One of the oldest known paranormal beliefs is that dogs have the ability to see ghost too.Regarding the ability of dogs to see at night Paul Miller says, “A lot better than we do”, Paul Miller is a clinical professor of comparative ophthalmology at University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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Do dogs really see at night?

Breastfeeding boosts infants’ IQs, but only if the babies have a genetic variant that enhances their metabolism of breast milk, a Yale researcher and collaborators report today in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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Breastfeeding Boosts IQ In Infants with Helpful Genetic Variant

A new host gene associated with dengue virus infection has been identified by the Researchers at Genome Institude of Singapore and Novartis Institute for Tropical Diseases,which may be the key in the development of a drug to treat the disease.

The dengue virus is transmitted by mosquitoes and can cause either a mild illness with fever or a more severe illness with fever and bleeding (dengue haemorrhagic fever). The bleeding is generally seen as tiny red spots on the skin but can occasionally be more severe affecting the nose, gums, and gut. In its most severe form it can cause shock, collapse, and sometimes death (dengue shock syndrome).About 250,000 to 500,000 cases of dengue hemorrhagic fever/dengue shock syndrome are found each year.But there is no specific treatment for the disease nor are there any validated host targets for therapeutic intervention.

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Key in the development of a drug to treat dengue shock syndrome

American Association for Cancer Research has found a rare hereditary disorder called Li-Fraumeni syndrome that predispose to develop cancer at early stage.This hereditary disorder was found in an asian.Normally,a person has two normal copies of P53 tumor supressor gene.But this disorder also called Li-Fraumeni Syndrome (LFS),one abnormal copy of P53 gene is inherited from parent.There are only about 400 families world wide but this was the first case in singapore.

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Li-Fraumeni syndrome found for the first time in singapore