According to this New Scientist report, scientists at University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne in the UK had turned bone marrow stem cells into primitive sperm cells. They obtained bone marrow stem cells from four adult men who were about to undergo bone marrow transplantation and turned them in cells that are precursors of human sperm cells. So what does that mean? Scientist believe, although it is just the start, one day we might be able to turn them into functioning sperm cells, thus helping infertile couples having babies. They even think it might be possible for women to produce their own sperm cells, making it possible for lesbian couples to have children. However, the biggest obstacle is to turn these primitive sperm cells into real functioning cells, and that will take a long time to be successful.
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Sunday, April 15, 2007
Bone stem cells turned into primitive sperm cells!
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Wednesday, April 11, 2007
Do coffee and cigarettes protect against Parkinson's disease?
Oh my God! Finally I think I found a reason to start smoking. According to this news report from New Scientist, drinking coffee and smoking cigarettes might protect an individual from getting Parkinson's disease, a disease of older people with loss of memory and coordination. A team of researchers did a study comparing the Parkinson's patients and their non Parkinson closed relatives on their habit on smoking and coffee drinking. They found that the patients are more likely to be non smokers and drink less coffee than their non-diseased siblings. So next time your mother or your girlfriend asks you to quit smoking, you have a reason to tell them why you should smoke.
But wait a minute, there are concrete evidences that smoking has a strong relation, a very strong one, with various kinds of diseases, including heart disease, peripheral vascular diseases and lung cancer. So you either have Parkinson or heart attack. It is your choice.
Technorati Tag : Health, Parkinson, Smoking, Coffee
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Tuesday, February 27, 2007
A Breath of Fresh Air: To Fight TB, Open a Window
According to recent news article from Scientific America, fighting TB is as simple as opening a window. Researchers in Peru found that good ventilation helps prevent spread of TB in hospitals. Good ventilation reduces the amount of germs in the air thus reducing the chance of contracting TB as well as other air borne diseases. WHO also recommends natural ventilation as one way to limit spread of TB. So next time when you see someone cough near you, just open the window.
Technorati Tag : Tuberculosis, Health
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Wednesday, December 13, 2006
Take care of your Baby's soft and delicate skin
သင့္ကေလးရဲ့ အေရျပားကို ဂ႐ုစိုက္ပါ
ေမြးကင္းစ ကေလးငယ္ ေတြရဲ့ အေရျပားဟာ လူႀကီးေတြရဲ့ အေရျပားနဲ႔ မတူပါဘူး။ ေမြးကင္းစ ကေလးငယ္ ေတြရဲ့ အေရျပားဟာ အလြန္ ႏူးညံ့ၿပီး ျပႆနာ အခ်ိဳ႕လဲ အလြယ္တကူ ျဖစ္ေစနိုင္ ပါတယ္။ ဥပမာ ေမြးကင္းစ ကေလးငယ္ ေတြရဲ့ ေခၽြးအိတ္ (Sweat Glands) ေတြဟာ ပိတ္ဆို႔ ေနတတ္ၿပီး အလုပ္ေကာင္းစြာ မလုပ္တဲ့ အတြက္ အပူကန္ျခင္း (Heat Rash) ပိုျဖစ္ နိုင္ပါတယ္။ အေရျပား ေတြကလဲ အရမ္းကို ပါးလႊာ တဲ့အတြက္ ပိုးမႊားေတြရဲ့ အႏၱရာယ္လဲ (Skin Infections) အလြယ္တကူ က်ေရာက္ နိုင္ပါတယ္။ အေရျပား ပါးလႊာ လြန္းတဲ့ အတြက္ အေရျပားေပၚ လိမ္းတဲ့ ေဆး (Lotion, cream စတာေတြ) ဟာ အေရျပား ထဲကို အလြယ္ တကူနဲ႔ ျမန္ျမန္ဆန္ဆန္ ဝင္ေရာက္ သြားနိုင္ပါတယ္။
ဒါ့ေၾကာင့္ အေရျပားလိမ္း ကရင္ေတြ၊ ဆပ္ျပာ၊ ေခါင္းေလွ်ာ္ရည္ ဆတာေတြကို ကေလးေတြမွာ အရမ္း မသံုးသင့္ပါဘူး။ အေရျပား ေရာဂါေတြ မရွိဘူး ဆိုရင္ ဆပ္ျပာကို ညစ္ေပတဲ့ ေနရာကိုပဲ ေဆးေၾကာသင့္ပါတယ္။ က်န္ မညစ္ေပတဲ့ ေနရာေတြကိုေတာ့ ေရသန္႔သန္႔ ကိုပဲ သံုးသင့္ပါတယ္။ ဆပ္ျပာ ဆိုရာမွာလဲ အယ္လကာလီ မပါတဲ့ (Non alkaline, pH adjusted soap) ကိုသာ သံုးသင့္ပါတယ္။ ႐ီုး႐ီုး ဆပ္ျပာကို တတ္နိုင္ရင္ ေရွာင္သင့္ပါတယ္။ ဘာ့ေၾကာင့္လဲ ဆိုေတာ့ ႐ိုး႐ိုး ဆပ္ျပာေတြက ကေလးရဲ့ ပံုမွန္ အေရျပားမွာ ရွိတဲ့ အက္ဆစ္ဓါတ္ကို ေျခဖ်က္ျပစ္လို႔ပဲ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။
အေရျပား ေျခာက္ေသြ႕ျခင္း၊ အႏွီး ေလာင္ျခင္း (dry skin and diaper rashes) တို႔လို သာမန္ အေရျပား ျပႆနာ ေတြအတြက္ အလြယ္တကူ ဝယ္ယူလို႔ ရတဲ့ over the counter baby skin care products ေတြကို သံုးနိုင္ပါတယ္။ ဒါေပမယ့္ hexachlorophene, iodine, resorcinol တို႔လို ပိုးသတ္ေဆး (antiseptic) ပါတဲ့ လိမ္းေဆးေတြ၊ အနံ႔ ပါတဲ့ လိမ္းေဆးေတြ၊ preservatives ပါတဲ့ ေဆးေတြကိုေတာ့ ေရွာင္သင့္ ပါတယ္။ အေရျပားကို ေဆးေၾကာရာမွာလဲ အရမ္း ပြတ္တိုက္ ေဆးေၾကာျခင္းကို ေရွာင္သင့္ပါတယ္။ ကေလး ေနာက္ေဖး သြားၿပီးတိုင္းလဲ ေပတဲ့ ေနရာေတြကို ေဆးေၾကာၿပီး ေသေသခ်ာခ်ာ ေျခာက္ေသြ႕ေအာင္ ဂ႐ုျပဳသင့္ပါတယ္။ ပြတ္တိုက္မႈ မ်ားတဲ့ ခ်ိဳင္းၾကား၊ လည္ပင္း၊ ေပါင္ျခံလို ေနရာမ်ိဳးကို ေပါင္ဒါ လိမ္းေပးသင့္ပါတယ္။ ေပါင္ဒါဟာ talcum (သို႔) corn starch ေပါင္ဒါပဲ သံုးသင့္ ပါတယ္။ၿပီးေတာ့ နဲနဲပဲ သံုးပါ။
အေရျပားမွာ Allergy အင္ျပင္ ထတတ္တဲ့ ကေလးေတြ အတြက္ေတာ့ အေရျပား ေျခာက္ေသြ႕ မေနေစဖို႔ Lotions and emollients ေတြ သံုးသင့္ပါတယ္။ ဒီလိမ္းေဆးေတြကို စိုဆြတ္ေနတဲ့ အေရျပားေပၚ လိမ္းေပး သင့္ပါတယ္။
အေရျပား ေရာဂါေတြ အတြက္ သံုးရမယ့္ ေဆးဝါးေတြကိုေတာ့ ဆရာဝန္ရဲ့ ၫႊန္ၾကားခ်က္ နဲ႔သာ သံုးသင့္ပါတယ္။ မိမိ သေဘာနဲ႔ ဘယ္ေတာ့မွ မသံုးသင့္ပါဘူး။ အေရျပား ကေန ေဆးစိမ့္ဝင္မႈ မ်ားတဲ့ အတြက္ ဒီေဆးေတြကို ဆရာဝန္ ၫႊန္ၾကားတဲ့ ေနရာ ေတြမွာပဲ သံုးသင့္ပါတယ္။ တျခားေနရာမွာ အလားတူ အေရျပား ျပႆနာေတြ ေပၚလာလို႔ပဲ ျဖစ္ျဖစ္၊ ဒီလို အလားတူ ျပႆနာမ်ိဳး ထပ္ေပၚရင္ပဲ ျဖစ္ျဖစ္၊ ဆရာဝန္ရဲ့ ၫႊန္ၾကားခ်က္ မပါပဲ မိမိ သေဘာအေလွ်ာက္ ဒီေဆးေတြကို မသံုးစြဲ သင့္ပါဘူး။
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How to eat Garlic effectively?
It is said that garlic has protective effective on heart disease, stroke, hypertension and cancer. However, it is also said that if you eat garlic straight, you won't get these protective effects. However small the garlic cove is, first wash it properly and cut into pieces, and leave them for about 15 minutes. Only then you will get these protective effects.
However, one recent study stated that "they found no evidence that garlic has protective actions against these diseases". Please note the usage of "found no evidence", as it doesn't mean "no protection". It simply means the scientists cannot (yet) find any evidence for the protective action of garlic.
ၾကက္သြန္ျဖဴ ဘယ္လို စားမလဲ
ၾကက္သြန္ျဖဴမွာ နွလံုး၊ ေသြးတိုး၊ ေလျဖတ္နဲ႔ ကင္စာ ေရာဂါေတြကို ကာကြယ္ နိုင္တဲ့ အစြမ္း ရွိတယ္လို႔ ဆိုပါတယ္။ ဒါေပမယ့္ ၾကက္သြန္ျဖဴကို ဒီအတိုင္း စားရင္ေတာ့ ဒီအစြမ္းေတြ မရနိုင္ဘူးလို႔ ေျပာပါတယ္။ ဘယ္ေလာက္ ေသးတဲ့ ၾကက္သြန္ျဖဴ ဥပဲျဖစ္ျဖစ္၊ ေရေဆး ၿပီး ဓါးနဲ႔စိတ၊္ ၿပီးရင္ ၁၅ မိနစ္ေလာက္ ေလသလပ္ ခံထားရပါမယ္။ ဒီေတာ့ မွ ဒီအစြမ္းထက္တဲ့ အာနိသင္ေတြ ရနိုင္မယ္လို႔ ဆိုပါတယ္။
(အခုေနာက္ဆံုး ထြက္တဲ့ သုေတသန စာတမ္း တစ္ေစာင္မွာေတာ့ ၾကက္သြန္ျဖဴဟာ ဒီေရာဂါေတြကို “ထူးထူး ျခားျခား ကာကြယ္ ေပးနိုင္တဲ့ အစြမ္း မေတြရ ဘူး” လို႔ ဆိုျပန္ပါတယ္။ ဒါေပမယ့္ “မကာကြယ္ နိုင္ဘူး” လို႔ ေျပာတာ မဟုတ္ပါဘူး။ မေတြ႔ရဘူး (No Evidence) ဆိုတာက မဟုတ္ဘူး (No) လို႔ မဆိုလို ပါဘူး။)
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