Friday, December 12, 2014

The danger in e-cigarettes



      Electronic cigarettes where said to be that they were safer than regular cigarettes. "Using e-cigarettes may even make bacterial infections resistant to antibiotics, according to one study." The devices heat up a liquid that a user inhales. Because the e-cigarette burns nothing and release no smoke. 
www.foxnews.com
        Vapes are more dangerous than the e-cigarettes because they have they flavoring liquid stuff in it and that could be worse on your body than a regular cigarettes. The scientist studying this said that vapes could cause a cancer than would be harder to treat then any other cancer from cigarettes. These new fake cigarettes that were suppose to better for you are now worse on you than before.
www.bbc.com

Australia's dangerous creatures






      Some people would say that Australia is "the land where everything can kill you." Which is almost true it is the continent with crocodile, deadly jellyfish, great white sharks, dangerous spiders and twenty out of the twenty-five most venomous snakes. Some of the other animals are Cone shells, wombats, magpies, honey bees, kangaroos a wallabies.
       Cone shell are pretty creatures that lure someone to pick them up, but the venomous gastropods produce neurotoxic peptides that cause pain, swelling, numbness and even death in humans. Wombats are furry marsupials that look very friendly but are not. They will attack humans. Magpies are birds that will fly down on peoples heads to protect young and they draw blood in the process. There has been cases when people have lost their eyes. Honey bees are another animal that is dangerous in Australia. Honey bees kill more people than the deadly spiders that live in Australia. This is because around three percent of people are allergic to the venom honey bees produce when they sting. Kangaroos and wallabies get in fights with humans and most of the time cars will hit the kangaroos.

         www.aussiebushadventures.com.au

Thursday, December 11, 2014

Male monkey bonding eases stress





     Most male monkey spend most of their time fighting other males over female monkeys, even though they live in a groups with other males. So they stayed stressed out because of all the fighting they go through of a day. These monkeys are more likely to not get the ease of the other monkeys who have bonded.   http://i.huffpost.com/
wild Barbary macaqueshttps://www.sciencenews.org/blog/science-ticker/male-monkeys-social-bonds-may-ease-everyday-stress?tgt=nr
        By studying these primates, scientists found that males with strong social bonds with other males had lower stress hormones in their feces than males with weaker bonds. The results say that the stress-reducing benefit of friendship extends beyond that seen among females and pair-living animals.

Herpes




     An antidepressant drug suppresses the herpes simplex virus. Tranylcypromine, sold since the 1960s as Parnate, reduces flare-up in previously infected animals with the herpes virus. Tranylcypromine blocks the activity of the LSD1, a protein found in humans and other mammals. "The herpesvirus uses LSD1 to activate some of its own genes to infect a host and later to awaken from its dormant state in the host’s sensory nerve cells." This activation is what unleashes the virus and cause the symptoms.
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        By blocking the viral gene activation, tranylcypromine makes the epigenetic change in the virus, but an alternation in its gene activity that does not change the underlying DNA structure. They tested this on mice, rabbits and guinea pigs.
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Early heart attcks






       A rare mutation in two genes was associated with the risk of early heart attacks in life. "An analysis of more than 9,000 genomes revealed that changes in the low-density lipoprotein receptor gene (LDLR)  and in the apolipoprotein A-V (APOA5) gene were linked with elevated levels of plasma LDL cholesterol and plasma triglycerides." http://www.cardiocarenaturally.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/heartattackstroke.jpg
      The results that was published on December 10 in Nature, says the issue with
 with triglyceride metabolism, along with high LDL cholesterol, may be the cause of early heart attacks in life.
      www.thehealthsite.com

Schizophrenia





 People with schizophrenia normally hear either hostile voices telling them to jump off a bridge or voices that sound like a mothers soothing words of advice depending on the culture they live in. In the United States the symptoms for schizophrenia are hallucinations of disembodied voices that hurl insults and make violent commands.     


  This disorder is not well understood or defined as other health conditions. This disorder is a mix of different mental health conditions, like schizophrenic and mood disorder features. These people may live lonely lives and have trouble keeping or getting jobs. Treatment can help with    symptoms and improve their lives.   


Monday, November 17, 2014

Geysers



Steamboat Geyser ejects a huge volume of water

       " Geysers are hot springs with constrictions in their plumbing, usually near the surface, that prevent water from circulating freely to the surface where heat would escape. The deepest circulating water can exceed the surface boiling point (199°F/93°C). Surrounding pressure also increases with depth, much as it does with depth in the ocean. Increased pressure exerted by the enormous weight of the overlying water prevents the water from boiling. As the water rises, steam forms. Bubbling upward, the steam expands as it nears the top of the water column.'