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Vitamin B3 Keeps Skin Cancer Away

May 15, 2015 By Deborah Nielsen Leave a Comment

The B3 supplement pills have a cost of less than $10 a month and are available in a large number of pharmacies and food stores all across the world. New study shows that taking a B vitamin could help prevent common skin cancers in those who are exposed to highest risk for the disease.

Researchers at the University of Sydney analyzed 386 people who consumed over-the-counter B3 vitamins a 23 percent reduction of non-melanoma skin cancers in subjects who had contacted at least two of the lesions in the previous five years.

Squamous cell carcinoma and Basal cell carcinoma are common types of skin cancer which are often caused by exposure to the sunlight. While the quota of survival for patients whom are affected by these cancers is good, but they tend to reoccur even after successful therapy. In many cases, if left unresolved, these kinds of skin cancers can form large lesions which may need surgical removal.

For the past ten years, an increasing amount of importance has been placed on the relevance of protecting our skin from the sun in order to prevent cancer and also premature aging. This research is promising in that vitamin B3 might become another counter-attack move with the added benefit of keeping away re-occurrence.

This is a small research with a unique demographic that may not necessarily be valid in other parts of the world. It will be discussed by the study authors when they present their discovery at the American Society of Clinical Oncology which will take place later this month in Chicago.

According to recent reports, there are more than 3 million Americans that suffer with these forms of skin cancer each year.

Main cause of skin cancer is the exposure to sun. Sunscreen has been pushed forward for years as an effective way to reduce risk of skin cancer. According to the reasearchers, nicotinamide actively offers skin cells an “energy boost, ” stimulating DNA repair and enhancing the skin’s immune system from ultraviolet light.

It is not certain how long the effect from consuming the pills might last. The vitamin supplement also seemed to reduce the numbers of scaly, thick patches of skin that can become cancer. Those problems were not observed with nicotinamide in the study.

Scientists said that nicotinamide has many differences from a more common form of B3 called niacin.

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The Latest Research Discovered How Curiosity Improves Learning Skills Of The Brain

October 3, 2014 By Jason Leathers Leave a Comment

According to the researchers, curiosity is a huge motivator of learning, as it actually changes our brains and prepares them for new discoveries, then assists us remember what we’ve learned.

The researcher said that curiosity about a topic not only assists us take in new information about it but opens the brain with extra incidental information as well, so a greater interest in a question was linked to not only better memory for the answer but it also gives useful information.

The researcher also reported in the journal Neuron that curiosity was somehow preparing the brain for learning and it also frequently improves long-term memory.

The lead author Matthias Gruber says during the test, the brain activity was enhanced in sections, producing dopamine, which controls consciousness of reward and pleasure, this experiment suggests the brain was already appealing to its reward system even before the response to a curiosity-engaging question was revealed.

Dr. Matthias Gruber also said that our discoveries possibly have extreme success suggestions for the public because they disclose facts into how a form of natural incentive curiosity affects memory and these outcomes recommend ways to improve learning in the classroom and other settings.

The research disclosed three main discoveries: First, when people were extremely curious to find out the answer to a question, they were better at learning that information, next, the researchers found that when curiosity is encouraged, there is increased activity in the brain circuit connected to reward and the third last, the researchers discovered that when curiosity motivated learning, there was enlarged movement in the hippocampus, a brain part that is significant for forming new memories, and improved interactions between the hippocampus and the reward circuit.

The result could have implications for medicine and beyond, and assist examiners get an improved understanding of the brain.

Facebook apologized for conducting a hidden psychological test on its users

October 3, 2014 By Rebecca McGhee Leave a Comment

After conducting a secret Physiological test, the chief operating executive of Facebook has apologized for the manipulation of 700,000 member accounts in a notorious secret study.

Sheryl Sandberg’s statements were the first from a Facebook administrative since it was disclosed that the social network changed users’ news feeds to observe if it had an influence on their emotions.

News came in Tuesday’s claim that it was a test trial covered by the Facebook association’s terms and conditions.

It appeared at the weekend, when the trial’s outcomes were disclosed in a paper published in a journal, that Facebook permitted researchers to manipulate the content that showed in the main section, or news feed of about 700,000 randomly picked users during a single week in January 2012.

The data-scientists were struggling to gather proof to confirm their thesis that people’s moods could spread like an ’emotional contagion’ depending on the kind of the content that they were reading.

None of the members in the Facebook trials were clearly asked for their permission, though the social network’s terms of use appears to permit for the company to operate what appears in users’ news feeds however it sees fit.

Facebook’s information-use rule says the California-based company can deploy user data for ‘internal operations, including troubleshooting, data investigation, testing, research and service upgrading.’

Ms Sandberg told television network NDTV in India during an interview that ‘we obviously communicated really defectively about this and that we really apologized and this plan was a part of ongoing research companies do to analysis different products, and that was what it was; it was badly communicated and for that communication we say sorry because we never meant to disturb you.’

Later on Facebook’s manager of policy in Europe told to the media: ‘It’s obvious that people were distressed by this research and we take responsibility for it.

Semi-Aquatic and Land Based Dinosaurs Battled On Land And Sea, Research Proven

September 29, 2014 By Germaine Hicks 2 Comments

The University of Tennessee and Virginia Tech have added more insight into the relationships of semi-aquatic and land based dinosaurs. Their discovery of a tooth from an aquatic dino embedded in the thigh bone of a land based dino shows not only did the two variations of giant lizards meet, but duked it out tooth and nail.

The tooth of the matter was from what they referred to as a phytosaur which was a big, creature with a long snout that looked sort of like crocodiles that roam the Earth today. At some point this dinosaur left the water or was on land drying off or basking in the sun, when it got into a fight with another big reptile referred to as a rauisuchid that is said to have been 25 feet in length and and about four feet high. The tooth that was embedded in the animal stayed lodged there and the tissue healed and grew over it thus preserving it for fossilization and the discovery we now have today.

The land/water battle took place during the Late Triassic period some 235 to 200 million years in the past. The rarity of the find has scientists surprised as one would guess. Since the rauishuchids were the big bad boys on the dinosaur block at the time one would think they could hold their own against the smaller phytosaurs. Whatever happened in those ages long past, this discover is evidence of an epic battle that surpasses anything Hollywood could come up with.

Published in the German journal Naturwissenschaften aka The Science of Nature, this discovery has scientists shaking their heads and realizing they’ll have to go back and review the earlier discoveries. This paints a whole new picture across the dino landscape for sure.

To achieve this discovery the tooth was examined using computed tomographic data and a 3D printer. They printed both copies of the tooth. Not only that but the scars left in the bone of the victim showed it had fought many a battle in its day. Adding to the discoveries pouring out of this new data, the size of the dino didn’t mean the success of the dino. Bigger may be better in some battles but evidence is growing that the smaller dinos like this phytosaur often came out on top. Probably due to speed and agility and using less energy than its larger cousins.

Hidden Complex of Monuments Found at Stonehenge Site

September 11, 2014 By Jason Leathers Leave a Comment

Archaeologists revealed an amazing buried versatile of archaeological monuments has been discovered around Stonehenge using latest techniques of subterranean scanning, around the Neolithic standing stones on Salisbury Plain, and now archaeologists believe that Stonehenge was at the center of a huge network of religious monuments.

Archaeologist from Birmingham University spent four years surveying 12 sq km of land around Stonehenge and finally they found monuments back 6,000 years, include evidence of 17 earlier unidentified wooden or stone shrines and temples as well as dozens of burial mounds which have been mapped in minute detail.

Along with the discoveries, a 100ft-long wooden building, or long barrow, around two miles from Stonehenge, built in 2400BC also found, Archaeologists think it was the place of complex rituals, including the removal of flesh and limbs from dead bodies and most of the monuments are fused into the landscape and unseen to the casual eye.

This discovery indicates that this was initially flanked with a row of 60 huge posts or stones, up to 3m high and the area around Stonehenge was full with unseen hidden complex and after the application of latest equipments, it is finally discovered so that the use of latest technology can transform how researchers and the wider public to know one of the best-studied landscapes on Earth.
The monument was originally circular or C shape, an archaeologist said that an unsatisfactorily long hosepipe might have helped them solve one of the enduring secrets of Stonehenge.

They also discovered two gigantic pits in a 3km-long monument called the Cursus by using land-penetrating radar and other apparatus, the eastern pit’s position with the rising sun, and the western pit’s placed at sunset, intersect at the point where Stonehenge was built 400 years later.

Gaffney said the archaeologists had previously believed that the most of the site of Stonehenge was just “green grass”, but the center of a complex, widespread arrangement of ritualistic monuments that had grown and expanded over time and the way Stonehenge and its surroundings were laid out was a “highly theatrical arrangement”.

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