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Research reveals a new secret to the miracle of breast milk. One of the secrets to rich milk production in lactation has been uncovered by researchers at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute. Their studies have revealed that breast cells develop two nuclei as the breast switches on lactation to nurture the newborn. This change begins to occur in late pregnancy with the generation of vast numbers of cells with two nuclei. The research was led by Professor Jane Visvader, Professor Geoff Lindeman, Dr Anne Rios and Dr Nai Yang Fu, from the institute's ACRF Stem Cells and Cancer Division, and shows that these cells with two nuclei disappear at the cessation of lactation, when breast cells return to a single nucleus state.

It is published today in the journal Nature Communications. Using unique 3-D imaging technology Dr Rios and Dr Fu found huge numbers of cells became binucleated - developed a second nucleus - a process that is critical to milk production. "We know that these cells are milk-producing factories," Professor Visvader said. 60 Minutes On This Bicycle Can Power Your Home For 24 Hours | Sci-Tech Universe. People often complain about the high prices of energy and the fact that they “never have time to workout.” This innovation undoubtedly solves both conundrums. And, most significantly, this free power invention has the potential to lift the 1.3 billion people who currently live without electricity out of poverty. As Manoj Bhargava, the founder of the Free Electric hybrid bike, shares in the video below, it is possible to produce electricity at home while simply doing a daily workout routine.

When an individual pedals the bike, the action drives a flywheel, which turns a generator and charges a battery. This means from just one hour of cycling, a rural household can be supplied with energy for 24 hours. The billionaire and his team developed the bicycle to take benefit of mechanical energy produced by humans to solve one of the world’s most pervasive problems. “Everything needs energy. Aging might not be a problem with new drug released - GeekSnack. Slowing the aging process was always a huge concern for humanity. Scientists from The Scripps Research Institute by working on mice were able to find a new class of drugs named “senolytics” that slows down the aging process. What the study concluded was that symptoms of frailty have been reduced and also the cardiac function was improved. “We view this study as a big, first step toward developing treatments that can be given safely to patients to extend health span or to treat age-related diseases and disorders,” said Professor Paul Robbins.

Cells that stop dividing, medically called senescent cells, are cells that have a reduced life-span and tend to accumulate in tissues. This is the aging process and scientists found that by killing off these senescent cells, the health-span(time without diseases) of the mice is increased. The most challenging part of the study was to identify and only target this types of cells. Study first to use brain scans to forecast early reading difficulties : Science : NEWSFRENZY.

UC San Francisco researchers have used brain scans to predict how young children learn to read, giving clinicians a possible tool to spot children with dyslexia and other reading difficulties before they experience reading challenges. In the United States, children usually learn to read for the first time in kindergarten and become proficient readers by third grade, according to the authors.

In the study, researchers examined brain scans of 38 kindergarteners as they were learning to read formally at school and tracked their white matter development until third grade. The brain's white matter is essential for perceiving, thinking and learning. Like Us on Facebook The researchers found that the developmental course of the children's white matter volume predicted the kindergarteners' abilities to read.

The research is published online in Psychological Science. Doctors commonly use behavioral measures of reading readiness for assessments of ability. Towers Produce Clean Drinking Water From Thin Air. In the Namib desert where rain is rare but fog common, a beetle survives by condensing water on its back until drops roll down into the insect's mouth. Now this principle has been magnified onto a grand scale, providing a possible solution to the desperate lack of water that plagues the populations of many of the world's dry regions. There is no lack of solutions being experimented with for water shortages.

Wells, recycling techniques and methods for cleaning poisoned water have all attracted considerable efforts, particularly since the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation have made the issue a priority for their considerable resources. However, many of these techniques have floundered; great on the page but unsuited to real world conditions. Those technologies that are cost effective represent only partial solutions, working well where a permanent water supply is available, but unsuited to regions where surface water vanishes in the dry season and groundwater is hard to reach.