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How bad it is to stare at the computer screen- according to Dr Amar Agarwal, extensive use of computers reduces the blinking rate of the person. Due to this, the water flow across the eyes reduces drastically and leads to dryness of the eye that causes the syndrome.
According to Dr Agarwal, nearly 95 per cent [...]

Ortec International said Tuesday (20th June) the European patent office has granted the firm a patent on its Fibrin Microbead technology for isolating certain types of adult stem cells. The technology has previously been granted five U.S. patents.
The Fibrin technology is a proprietary matrix for isolating, expanding and differentiating Mesenchymal-type adult stem cells, a [...]

Aging fighter pilots can now remain in the cockpit longer, reducing annual recruiting needs. And recruits whose bad vision once would have disqualified them from the special forces are now eligible, making the competition for these coveted slots even tougher.
Almost every Thursday during the academic year, a bus carrying a dozen or so Naval Academy [...]

Thanks to a Stanford telemedicine program, doctors can remotely diagnose Retinopathy of Prematurity, or ROP, a condition that threatens 80,000 premature babies annually in the United States and causes blindness in up to 600. Babies can be diagnosed quickly using the new technology.
Effective screening and timely treatment reduces the risk of vision loss from ROP. [...]

Scientists (Dr. Douglas Kerr, a neurologist at Johns Hopkins University who led the work being published on Monday in the journal Annals of Neurology) have used stem cells and a soup of nerve-friendly chemicals not only to bridge a damaged spinal cord but also re-grow the circuitry needed to move a muscle, helping partially paralysed [...]

A cluster of 4 cases of soft contact lens–associated Fusarium keratitis seen at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), during a 5-week span in early 2006 and compare this cluster with the number of previous cases of culture-positive Fusarium keratitis seen at UCSF during the prior 30 years.
This cluster represents part of a [...]

The three genes causing fan-shaped cataract, cerulean cataract and sutural cataract has been identified by a research team led by Prof Jai Rup Singh at the Centre for Genetic Disorders, Guru Nanak Dev University (GNDU).

Harvard University researchers announced an ethically charged, long-term project that could produce treatments for a variety of diseases while they are discussing about stem cell research with human embryos.

The trial of stem cell scientist Hwang Woo-suk began in South korea alleging that he was the mastermind of an elaborate scheme to manipulate research results to make it look like his team had actually produced stem cell lines through cloning human embryos.

Hwang is suspected of using part of the funds to purchase human ova [...]

Scientists from University of Washington have made significent progress toward learning how to use stem cells to repair severely damaged human livers by isolating liver stem cells from human fetuses, grew them in the laboratory for months and infused them in laboratory mice, where they replaced thousands of dead liver cells.

It is probably the first [...]