What is Alzheimer's Disease? Alzheimer’s is a progressive disease which causes brain cells to degenerate over a period of time. This leads to eventual deterioration of mental functions and memories. Confusion and memory loss are the main symptoms, in fact, Alzheimer’s disease is the leading cause of Dementia, a disease which causes a decline in [...]
The race towards a cure for Covid-19 has been the objective of pharmaceutical companies worldwide. In order to understand how a vaccine which will fight Covid-19 is made, we must first understand how the Covid-19 virus operates. This image shows the structure of the Cover-19 virus How Does Covid-19 infect the body? Covid-19 looks like [...]
For the past several months, the world has been attacked by an invisible enemy What is Covid-19 and where did it come from? On Dec. 31st 2019 the Wuhan Municipal Health Commission reported cases of pneumonia spreading through Wuhan China. These reported cases of pneumonia, turned out to be the first cases of a new strain [...]
Alzheimer's disease is a progressive disorder that causes brain cells to degenerate and die. This disease is the number one cause of dementia- a continuous decline in thinking, behavioral and social skills that disrupts a person's ability to function independently. The early signs of the disease may be forgetting recent events or conversations and not [...]
Infant mortality is defined as the death of children under one year of age. This number (often an average of the region) is most often associated with developing/underdeveloped nations such as those in the continent of Africa, and the Subcontinent of India. In regions such as these, women give birth to a large amount of [...]
Chances are that many of you have heard from either your parents or your teachers that sleep is an integral part of your health. It is recommended that teenagers should get approximately 8 hours of sleep each day, yet most of us don’t and still function fine. This begs the question: how important is sleep [...]
Stem cells are cells with the potential to develop into many different types of cells that exist in the human body. For years the usefulness of stem cells has been debated. These “miracle cells” have been subject to a wide field of medicine. From skin grafts to organ regrowth, STEM cells are extremely versatile and [...]
Can stem cells be used to help minimize the death rates in heart attack victims? A new study suggests that by injecting stem cells (Stem cells are cells with the potential to develop into many different types of cells ) into victim’s chests could nearly half the amount of casualties that arise from cardiac arrest. [...]
Most people I know have experienced this phenomenon: a startling dream wakes you up from a deep slumber and then within seconds you forget the dream that caused you to wake up in the first place. But this scenario doesn’t play out for everybody. Some people CAN remember their dreams while other CANNOT. To figure [...]
Ranging from Snakes to frogs, venomous animals are prevalent all throughout the animal kingdom. The composition of the venomous mixture depends on each type of animal. Of all venomous species, the most studied are snakes, scorpions, spiders, jellyfish, and cone shells. The venom of these animals is composed of mainly proteins and peptides (short chains [...]
