If you have ignored your posture for long and are now willing to get back in correct one, here are some tips and exercises to help you get back your posture.

A Mix of Tiny Gold and Viral Particles – and the DNA Ties that Bind Them Scientists have created a diamond-like lattice composed of gold nanoparticles and viral particles, woven together and held in place by strands of DNA. The structure – a distinctive mix of hard, metallic nanoparticles and organic viral pieces known as […]

U.S., Russia Partner to Eradicate Polio Around the World Washington, DC – On January 27th, the U.S. government and the government of the Russian Federation, through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), and the Ministry of Health and Social Development of the Russian Federation (MOHSD), […]

Ronald Ferguson to deliver Martin Luther King Jr. Lecture Noted scholar Ronald Ferguson will deliver the 2011 Martin Luther King Jr. Lecture at Brown University on Feb. 8, 2011. His talk, titled “Pursuing Excellence with Racial Equity: A Social Movement for the 21st Century,” is free and open to the public. It begins at 4 […]

DNA caught rock ‘n rollin’ DNA, that marvelous, twisty molecule of life … ANN ARBOR, Mich.—DNA, that marvelous, twisty molecule of life, has an alter ego, research at the University of Michigan and the University of California, Irvine reveals. On rare occasions, its building blocks “rock and roll,” deforming the familiar double helix into a […]

Get Moving for a Cause with Cycle for Hope Spinning Event Benefits Golisano Children’s Hospital and Camp Good Days  Toss aside the sedentary lifestyle that usually accompanies this season’s arctic temperatures and get those endorphins flowing at the Cycle for Hope spinning fundraiser. The seventh annual indoor exercise event, which runs from 8 a.m. to […]

Plus it is also dishwasher safe for easy cleaning.”

Well, that’s not entirely true…

The bowl is made of injection molded polypropylene and the plastic nubs are very durable and have about 0% chance of breaking off without using any tools to break them off intentionally. Dishwasher safe, though? Not entirely. It really would depend on the temperature setting. Some users have reported mild melting of the material.

Mangosteen fruit is cultivated in the tropical rainforest of some Southeast Asian nations like Indonesia, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, Philippines, and Thailand. People in these countries have used the pericarp (peel, rind, hull or ripe) of GML as a traditional medicine for the treatment of abdominal pain, diarrhea, dysentery, infected wound, suppuration, and chronic ulcer.

Experimental studies have demonstrated that mangosteen extracts have antioxidant, antitumoral, antiallergic, anti-inflammatory, antibacterial, and antiviral activities.

Carrots Antioxidant ValueExposing sliced carrots to UV-B, one of the three kinds of ultraviolet light in sunshine, can boost the antioxidant activity of the colorful, crunchy veggie. That’s according to preliminary studies by Tara H. McHugh, a food technologist and research leader at the ARS Western Regional Research Center in Albany, California, and her team.

Found mainly in fruits and vegetables, antioxidants are natural compounds that may reduce risk of cancer and cardiovascular disease.

Finding means C. elegans may aid studies of human infections Biologists’ favorite worm gets viruses  A workhorse of modern biology is sick, and scientists couldn’t be happier. Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, the Jacques Monod Institute in France and Cambridge University have found that the nematode C. elegans, a millimeter-long […]