April 25th is celebrated as World Malaria day. Coincidently, Cartoon I prepared today is based biting preference of mosquito and genetic of person. It is based on research published in PLOS ONE on 22nd April, 2015. One can read general article on it at www.sciencenews.org and original paper at http://journals.plos.org.

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Vultures are using heat from thermal power plant to float

Scientists from Brazil found that Black Vultures & Turkey Vultures are commonly found circling on the power plant indicating that they are using heat generated by power plant to float on rising currents of warm air known as thermals. Vultures use thermals to soar high into the sky without beating their wings, thereby saving energy. Scientists have suggested that there study will help in planning of airports or route of flights so that there will not be the case of air crash due to bird hitting.  The paper is published in The Wilson Journal of Ornithology.

One way it is for vultures to be adapted to industrialization, but is it not the disturbance to their natural flight? The question is to be answered on the basis of morality. Birds and other organism will adapt to the change we do but to what extent is question mark……  

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On the name of scientific research: Japan Kills Whale

         Whaling is the hunting of whales primarily for human needs. It is 3000 years old profession, common with many coastal communities. Industrial whaling emerged with organized fleets in the 17th century and became a large industry for whale harvesting. Till 1930s more than 50,000 whales were killed annually. The International Whaling Commission (IWC) banned commercial whaling in order to conserve but continued the permitted quota of killing whales for scientific purpose. Japan killed some 10,000 Minke whales from 1987 to 2014 but it was found that Japan is killing whales for commercial purpose, not for scientific research. In   2014, the International Court ruled out that Japan is not killing whales for scientific research so it should be kept away from the Antarctic whaling programme. Despite of order by the International Court, Japan is continuing the whaling project in the name of scientific research. At last, as a matter of fact, India is against the whaling activity.

Kindly find the attached cartoon on how Minke whale would be feeling about Japan's move on continuing whaling activity. 

For original article Click Here: Science magazine

કરોળિયાનાં જાળાં પર હ્રદયનાં સ્નાયુઓનું સંવર્ધન

મોસ્કો ઇન્સ્ટીટ્યુટ ઓફ ફીઝીક્સ એન્ડ ટેક્નોલોજીનાં સંશોધકો દ્વારા 10 એપ્રિલ 2015 નાં PLOS ONE માં પ્રકાશિત થયેલાં સંશોધનમાં જણાવ્યા મુજબ, કરોળિયાનાં જાળામાં રહેલું પ્રોટીન સ્પાઇડ્રોઇન છે તે હ્રદયનાં સ્નાયુઓને પ્રયોગશાળામાં પેશી સંવર્ધન માટે શ્રેષ્ઠ સંવર્ધક તરીકે ઉપયોગી બને તેમ છે. વૈજ્ઞાનિકોએ જનીન ઈજનેરી દ્વારા વિકસવેલી યીસ્ટ (એક જાતની ફુગ) નાં કોષોનો ઉપયોગ કરીને સ્પાઇડ્રોઇન મેળવ્યું અને પ્રયોગશાળામાં તેના પર હ્રદયનાં સ્નાયુઓ વિકસાવ્યા. પ્રયોગશાળામાં વિકસાવવામાં આવેલાં આ સ્નાયુઓ હ્રદયનાં મૂળ સ્નાયુઓની માફક જ કામ કરે છે.

 Link to original research paper: Plos ONE

Link to press release by Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology: MIPT researchers grow heart tissue on spider silk

Link toarticle in science daily: Cardiac tissue grown on 'spider silk' substrate

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Spidroin, a spider web protein, for growing Heart Muscle

According to research published in Plos one on 10 April, 2015 by researchers for Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, protein from the spider web, commonly known as spidroin are proven to be the best substrate for growing heart muscle in laboratory. They got spidroin by using genetically modified yeast cells. These lab grown cardiac muscles are functioning like normal cardiac muscles.

Link to original research paper: Plos ONE

Link to press release by Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology: MIPT researchers grow heart tissue on spider silk

Link toarticle in science daily: Cardiac tissue grown on 'spider silk' substrate

 

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Science cartoon on Aluminium as new candidate for mobile battery

     Aluminium can be the right candidate for mobile battery and other electronic gadgets. An international team led by Stanford’s Hongjie Dai have accidentally discovered a simple solution using graphite as cathode and aluminium as anode, in an ionic liquid electrolyte (a salty liquid, essentially) in a flexible pouch coated with a polymer.

Kindly found the cartoon on the same.
Original article: Nature
Author News release: Stanford University press release

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          No competition with desert pupfish for holding breadth 

       A paper presented by Researchers Frank van Breukelen and Stanley D. Hillyard from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas in Experimental Biology Meeting held by American Physiological society at Boston reveal the fact that this tiny fish can held breadth for 5 hours.

Want to be an astronaut, be ready to drink urine

Those who are thinking to be an astronaut, be ready to drink your own urine and sweat. Please don't find it ugly because the recycled water will be more pure than the water we are drinking regularly. For more detail about how water is recycled on the International space station, click here.

 

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Face scans show how fast a person is aging

Aging is an unavoidable process. No organism can escape from this process. Recognition of aging process by wisdom and experience is a common phenomenon by scientifically is yet to be standardized. With the help of digitalization it is not impossible. According to research published in cell research on March 31^st 2015, aging process can be recognize by computer using 3D facial recognition technology.

Scientists from China led by Weiyang Chen identified some characters like facial shape, nose tip, nose width, mouth width, angles of eyelids, slope of eye, asymmetry between slopes of eye, thickness of upper and lower lips and variation in thickness of lips, distance between lips and nose, etc. as the parameter for facial recognition for aging.

There are many changes exhibited in these average faces, especially in the mouth, nose and eye regions. From young adulthood to old age, the mouth elongates, the nose becomes wider, the mouth-nose distance increases and eye corners droop. Young faces are smoother and thinner than old faces; old faces have more face sagging, subcutaneous fat accumulation and fuller cheeks than young faces. Overall, our reconstructed average face profiles reflect the general patterns of facial aging.

Scientists connected change in face as one factor and compared it with age related blood profiles through biochemical test. They concluded that, despite a close relationship between facial morphological features and health indicators in the blood, facial features are more reliable aging biomarkers than blood profiles and can better reflect the general health status than chronological age.

The original paper can be downloaded by clicking here.

Related article is published in medicalxepress.com can be by clicking here.

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