Microfluidics involves complicated design and mechanics of fluid motion. Microfluidics enables many reactions to take place in miniscule volumes. This enables efficiency as well as minitiaturization with the consequential advantage of speed and low waste of reagents. However, one persistent problem has been the pumps that are required to pump liquid through these minor chambers….
10,000 Malcolm Gladwell in his book “Outliers” reported studies that it takes about 10,000 hours for any person to become an expert based on studies conducted in various laboratories. This is a big number. Consider an 8 hour day with a 40 hour week specializing in only one area. With 50 weeks that equates to…
Dr Claudia Gravekamp from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine is exploring the treatment of cancer with bacteria after she observed that the bacteria, Listeria monocytogenes, seemed to be concentrating near the area of tumor. Tumor targeting of drugs or radiation is a very big issue. Currently, there are several drugs that attack cancer cells…
Property management companies typically manage properties of rich individuals. That management could be something like taking care of the property, managing it or more detailed as in managing the rentals, the renters and engaging repairs as required. Most of them require some kind of agreement which is for a fixed amount. This company has come…
It always is amazing to think about the forces that are required to push water up the really tall trees. The forces involved are enormous and it is amazing that natural phenomenon without massive pumps and large amounts of energy are not involved! The video below seeks to understand the forces that make water move…
It is amazing how camouflage happens instantaneously. There has been a lot of research but the skin responses needs more research into understanding the phenomenon as well as brain processing of complex stimuli. The video below says it all. {youtube}0b4tmbE5jj4{/youtube}
Brain achieves a remarkable task to simplify the world and it is important for us to distinguish data from the noise. Take the example of a small piece of forest. This forest has trees, plants and some animals. The trees by themselves have branches, leaves, and other structures that have distinct shapes and sizes. If…
Brain neuron organization has been investigated since a long time and it had been very confusing for scientists trying to determine the organization among a mass of neurons. Vernon Mountcastle’s discovery of a column of neuron paved the way for understanding of the brain. In 1957 he made the radical discovery that the columnar pattern…
Mobile and healthcare has been abbreviated to mHealth and there has been significant amount of work that is being done to make mobile applications that will work in the healthcare space. The applications in the iPhone app store vary from not so useful “Anti-mosquito” and “White noise” to more useful ones like Pedometer and Calorie-counter…
History: Buckminster Fuller, a scientist from UK was a remarkable inventor, architect and a designer. He was responsible for the Geodesic dome among other designs but the most fulfilling design was the bathing unit, called Dymaxion that was a very unique concept. This design came from his observations while in the navy that exposing soiled…
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