Posted by Umar on March 14, 2011 ·
Cancer as we know it has been around for as long as we remember. It is one of the most deadliest diseases humans might have suffered. In a recent study, researchers from the University of Minnesota have been using Salmonella to fight cancer. The bacteria commonly transmitted through food that sickens thousands of U.S. residents each year — to do what was once unthinkable: help people.
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Posted by Umar on March 10, 2011 ·
What are the characteristics that a video game must have to be entertaining? Why do players prefer some video games to others? What is the difference between a game and an educational multiplayer video game? All these questions were answered by a research carried out by José Luís González Sánchez and conducted by professor Francisco Luís Gutiérrez Vela, at the Department of Languages and Computing [...]
Posted by Umar on March 8, 2011 ·
A team of researchers at the University of Colorado School of Medicine have discovered a drug that can actually stop the progression of the degenerative illness in mice. As of now this drug is also being tested on humans.
Head of the Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology at the CU school of Medicine, Curt Freed said that the drugs used to treat Parkinson’s disease just treat symptoms; they do [...]