Archive for February, 2011
Feb 28th, 2011
As we all know that health is a condition of the body and mind, in which one is capable to do work to one’s maximum potential. A healthy body can be preserved for a very long period of time and ageing can be delayed if we follow certain best practices.
A few simple food and exercise-related aspects in order to stay fit, if incorporated in one’s daily routine, can then result in one’s maximum inner satisfaction and utmost happiness. Important is the kind of nutrition which the body is subjected to and diet-related change, coupled with exercise, meditation, and yoga from a suitable package in order to get complete physical and mental
Feb 28th, 2011
The Indian Department of Biotechnology is implementing a program to expand and strengthen the institutional research capacity, for promotion of excellence in interdisciplinary science and innovation in specific areas of biotechnology, through the support for the founding of a Center of Excellence in Biotechnology.
According to reports, the program provides flexible long-term support for highly novel research both basic and translational in nature in biotechnology. It is reported that DBT has planned to establish 50 such Centers of Excellence in Biotechnology in India. Up to now, 15 Centers have been supported, covering healthcare, bioi
Feb 28th, 2011
More than 400 students of the middle and high schools of Fairfax County Public Schools won regional awards in the 2011 Scholastic Art Awards competition. Winners from Westfield and Centreville high schools and Mountain View Alternative, among other schools were honored among their peers at an awards ceremony at the Annandale campus of Northern Virginia Community College on last Tuesday night.
One of the Hunter Mill District school board members, Stuart D Gibson said that what they were present for, was not something that can be measured on a standardized test. He said that was something that is their spirit and the essence of their you
Feb 28th, 2011
It is reported that a set of Chinese erotic carvings associated with the court of the Qianlong emperor is estimated by auctioneers to sell for as much as $1.9 million at a London sale in May.
The London-based auction house said that the 18th-century ivory scenes of couples enjoying amorous pursuits in palace gardens, will be offered by Bonhams at its May 12 sale of Chinese artworks and carrying a low approximate of 1.29 million.
The reliefs are mounted on 8 leaves made of Zitan wood, a prized, slow-growing timber whose use in China was controlled by the palace workshops. The 12-inch panels are hinged like books, allocating the carvi
Feb 28th, 2011
The latest study by Loma Linda University (LLU) revealed that naturally occurring antioxidants in pecans may provide help in contributing to heart health and disease prevention.
Pecans have different forms of the antioxidant vitamin E called tocopherols, plus many phenolic substances, many of them having antioxidant abilities.
Particularly, nuts are rich in one form of vitamin E known as gamma-tocopherols. His study showed that after eating pecans, gamma-tocopherol levels in the body became doubled and unhealthy oxidation of LDL (bad) cholesterol in the blood decreased by 33 percent.
Additionally oxidized LDLs may contribute to i
Feb 28th, 2011
A team of scientists led by the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) researchers have developed a system that allows them to sift through thousands of candidate hairpin-shaped Ribonucleic acid (RNA) molecules at one time and pull out only those RNAs that potently shut down the movement of a target gene. This achievement of the researchers will now allow biologists to fully utilize RNA interference (RNAi), a natural cellular mechanism that has already been chosen by researchers for a myriad of purposes such as hunting for cancer genes, stopping viral infections and more recently, treating diseases in clinical trials.
Professor of CSHL a
Feb 28th, 2011
Present day round-the-clock lifestyle appears to ruin metabolism, learning and behavior in ways that we have just started to understand.
Researchers led by Ilia Karatsoreos of the Hatch Lab of Neuroendocrinology, from Rockefeller University, housed mice for 10 weeks in 20-hour light-dark cycles at odds along with their natural 24-hour circadian cycle.
They have identified that after six weeks, the disrupted mice got fatter, which showed that comparatively less mental flexibility and they were more impulsive than mice kept on their natural schedule, according to the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences reports.
Feb 28th, 2011
In the second major health care real estate deal announced Monday, Health Care REIT Inc. is buying the assets of rehabilitation facility and nursing home operator Genesis HealthCare for $2.4 billion.
The company said it will buy all of Genesis' real estate assets, which include 147 post-acute care, rehabilitation, assisted living and long-term care services in 11 states across the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic regions. It will have an option to purchase a 9.9-percent stake in Genesis for $47 million. Genesis of Kennett Square, Pa., will continue to run the facilities.
The assets of JER Partners and Formation Capital LLC. are being purcha
Feb 28th, 2011
Japan's Fujifilm, has been diversifying into health care, Monday said that it would buy U.S. and British biopharmaceutical businesses from America's Merck for a reported half a billion U.S. dollars.
The Japanese film and camera maker said that it would purchase all the shares of Diosynth RTP Inc. of the United States and of Britain's MSD Biologics Ltd. from Merck, with no disclosure of the purchase price.
Fujifilm had agreed to pay about $490 million for the two arms of the Merck BioManufacturing Network, the Nikkei business daily said.
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Feb 28th, 2011
Disaster was just barley averted when small arms fire entered the cockpit of a RAF C130 Hercules evacuating Britons and foreign nationals from Libya.
A round bounced off the pilot's helmet, yet he was unscathed during Sunday's rescue of oil workers.
Previously, 50 Britons and 150 foreign nationals arrived in Malta on HMS Cumberland.
David Cameron has urged Libyan leader Col Muammar Gaddafi,just as many others have to date, to "go now".
The prime minister added by saying the north African country had no future "that includes him".
Confirmed details came from the BBC's Frank Gardner, of the narrow escape during the evacuat
