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Pakai Ponsel Berlebihan Picu Kanker Kelenjar Ludah

noreply@blogger.com (Satu Ayat) — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 02:24:00 +0000

TEL AVIV -- Sering berbicara di telepon genggam (telepon seluler atau ponsel), bisa membuat mulut seseorang lelah. Namun pengguna telepon genggam yang terlalu berlebihan harus waspada. Bukan karena...

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40 Persen Makanan Bayi Terkontaminasi Bakteri

noreply@blogger.com (Satu Ayat) — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 02:21:00 +0000

BOGOR -- Para peneliti dari Institut Pertanian Bogor (IPB) menemukan 22,73 persen susu formula (dari 22 sampel) dan 40 persen makanan bayi (dari 15 sampel) telah terkontaminasi bakteri Enterobacter...

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Penemuan Vaksin HIV Masih Jauh

noreply@blogger.com (Satu Ayat) — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 02:17:00 +0000

LONDON -- Setelah lebih dari duapuluh tahun meneliti, para ilmuwan ternyata tidak semakin dekat untuk menemukan vaksin HIV. ''Ini tantangan besar, sebab untuk mengendalikan HIV dengan imunologi....

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Autis dan Sistem Kekebalan Tubuh Ibu.

noreply@blogger.com (Satu Ayat) — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 01:46:00 +0000

Hasil penelitian dari UC Davis M.I.N.D. Institute and Center for Children's Environmental Health telah menemukan bahwa terdapat keterkaitan antara sistem kekebalan tubuh pada darah seorang ibu dan...

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New Technique Makes Tissues Transparent

noreply@blogger.com (Satu Ayat) — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 01:27:00 +0000

ScienceDaily (Feb. 13, 2008) — If humans had see-through skin like a jellyfish, spotting disease like cancer would be a snap: Just look, and see a tumor form or grow. But humans, of course, are not...

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Gangliosida Berperan Penting Dalam Perkembangan Otak Anak

noreply@blogger.com (Satu Ayat) — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 03:00:00 +0000

Jakarta (ANTARA News) - Nutrisi gangliosida, yang secara alami terdapat dalam air susu ibu, susu formula, daging dan telur, memiliki peran penting dalam pertumbuhan, serta perkembangan otak anak. ...

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Brain Signal Linked to Autism

noreply@blogger.com (Satu Ayat) — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 07:41:00 +0000

By Emily Singer By imaging the brains of adolescents with a high-functioning form of autism as they played a social-interaction game, scientists have identified a physiological deficit specific to...

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Medicine From Milk: Gene Therapy Transforms Goats Into Pharmaceutical Factories

noreply@blogger.com (Satu Ayat) — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 04:17:00 +0000

ScienceDaily (Feb. 1, 2008) — University of Pennsylvania researchers have used gene therapy to reduce the time it takes to breed large animals capable of producing therapeutic proteins in their...

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A New Tool To Determine Protein Structures

noreply@blogger.com (Satu Ayat) — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 01:57:00 +0000

By Corinna Wu Synchrotrons are huge facilities that can produce intense, high-quality x-ray beams for scientific purposes. They usually span the size of a football field and cost hundreds of millions...

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Transgenik Yes, But . . .

noreply@blogger.com (Satu Ayat) — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 07:23:00 +0000

Jakarta-RoL--"Prinsipnya bagi kami tidak masalah, bahkan kami dukung upaya itu," kata Sekjen Himpunan Kerukunan Tani Indonesia (HKTI) Rachmat Pambudy pada diskusi pakar bertema "Keunggulan...

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Fresh Insight into Evolution

noreply@blogger.com (Satu Ayat) — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 01:16:00 +0000

By Emily Singer It's a tantalizing thought worthy of X-Men-inspired daydreams: are some of us, for better or for worse, evolving faster than others? Growing evidence suggests that rates of genetic...

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Ayam Lokal Tahan Banting

noreply@blogger.com (Satu Ayat) — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 06:16:00 +0000

Rabu, 23 Januari 2008 | 14:21 WIB TEMPO Interaktif, Jakarta: Ayam yang satu ini memang istimewa. Bulu, kaki, jengger, paruh, dan lidahnya berwarna hitam pekat. Bahkan daging dan darahnya pun...

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Proyek 1000 Genom

noreply@blogger.com (Satu Ayat) — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 03:59:00 +0000

Amerika, Inggris dan Cina kini bekerja sama dalam Proyek 1000 Genom. Proyek ini bertujuan untuk memetakan genom manusia terbaru dengan data variasi DNA biomedis paling lengkap dan lebih detail...

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Otak Korslet

noreply@blogger.com (Satu Ayat) — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 02:20:00 +0000

Sabtu, 26 Januari 2008 | 13:30 WIB TEMPO Interaktif, Davis : Mencari wajah yang kita kenal di keramaian ternyata sulit dilakukan oleh otak manusia. Hasil penelitian terbaru membuktikan otak...

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Bio News Groups

noreply@blogger.com (Satu Ayat) — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 04:26:00 +0000

Temans, kalo ente tertarik dengan perkembangan bioteknologi & bioengineering, ada groups yg mungkin bisa teman teman ikutin. groupnya dibuat di google,...

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Looking into the Brain with Light

noreply@blogger.com (Satu Ayat) — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 02:19:00 +0000

By Michael Chorost A new noninvasive diagnostic technology could give doctors the single most important sign of brain health: oxygen saturation. Made by an Israeli company called OrNim and slated...

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Genetic Variant Predicts Heart Disease Risk

noreply@blogger.com (Satu Ayat) — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 01:43:00 +0000

By Apoorva Mandavilli Testing for a genetic variation could predict the likelihood that a patient will respond well to certain statins. But some researchers say it's too soon to use the variation to...

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Detecting Asthma Irritants

noreply@blogger.com (Satu Ayat) — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 01:38:00 +0000

By Brittany Sauser Researchers at Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) in Atlanta have developed a portable sensor system to monitor the air quality for people suffering from asthma. The device is...

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Sel Penyebab Leukemia Ditemukan

noreply@blogger.com (Satu Ayat) — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 08:56:00 +0000

Selasa, 29 Januari 2008 | 13:28 WIB TEMPO Interaktif, Oxford: Tim peneliti menemukan bahwa kedua anak kembar tersebut memiliki sel tunas abnormal praleukemia dalam darah mereka. Sel itu bisa...

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Next Steps for Stem Cells

noreply@blogger.com (Satu Ayat) — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 04:53:00 +0000

By Emily Singer Searching the brain of an Alzheimer's patient for clues into the origin of the disease is like trying to find the cause of a plane crash in the wrecked aftermath. However, a recent...

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Gene Therapy for Chronic Pain

noreply@blogger.com (Satu Ayat) — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 03:33:00 +0000

By Jocelyn Rice A new kind of gene therapy could bring relief to patients suffering from chronic pain while bypassing many of the debilitating side effects associated with traditional painkillers....

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Gadis Australia Pasien Pertama Dunia yang Berubah Golongan Darah

noreply@blogger.com (Satu Ayat) — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 02:45:00 +0000

Canberra (ANTARA News) - Seorang gadis remaja Australia --Demi-Lee Brennan-- menjadi pasien pertama yang mengubah golongan darahnya dan menerima sistem kekebalan dari donor organnya. Brennan yang...

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Pil KB Cegah Kanker Indung Telur

noreply@blogger.com (Satu Ayat) — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 02:42:00 +0000

Beijing (ANTARA News) - Pil KB dapat berbuat lebih dari sekedar mencegah kehamilan, pil tersebut juga dapat melindungi perempuan dari kanker indung telur selama lebih dari 30 tahun atau lebih setelah...

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Pengobatan Kanker Juga Bantu Obati Osteoporosis

noreply@blogger.com (Satu Ayat) — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 02:38:00 +0000

Washington (ANTARA News) - Obat yang digunakan untuk mengobati kanker tulang sumsum juga dapat membantu mengobati osteoporosis dengan merangsang sel-sel tungkai, kata beberapa peneliti AS, Jumat. ...

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Mixing Up the Immune System

noreply@blogger.com (Satu Ayat) — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 07:08:00 +0000

By Anna Davison By performing bone-marrow transplants along with kidney transplants, doctors in Boston were better able to trick recipients' immune systems into accepting the new organs as if they...

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