- Beat The Heat:Testis Cools The Easiest Way
Testicles are cooler than the core body temperature. The way it achieves this is pretty cool!
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- Physiology physics woven fine
Mechanisms of many 'software operations', in physiology and other allied medical disciplines can be explained by physics. This blog emphasizes on this analytical approach.
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- "Warm Ice" may help us achieve a Better Prosthesis
Nanoscale ice, that forms on sodium treated diamond 'dusts', covering artificial prostheses, may have profound medical implications.
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- A Vaccine To Crack The Cocaine Bugs
A vaccine is being developed to treat cocaine addiction, in a unique way. Action of cocaine on the brain, the way the vaccine is going to act, and more has been discussed here.
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- Brain Sees What The Eyes Can Not Behold:The Strange Facade of Optical Illusion
Brain's interpretation of eyes' inputs.
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- Cannabis And The Receptor Conundrum
Ever wondered why we always seem to have the right gloves for even the wrong hand? Here it is hypothesized as to why we might possess 'natural' receptors for the 'bad molecules'.
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- Chiral Delight
In the land of molecules, asymmetry has its own diktat in terms of isomeric hindrance.
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- Consciousness: An inside story
Cogito ergo sum: I think therefore I am, Rene Descartes once said. But what is this "I"? An interesting science is involved in its causation and we are only beginning to understand the intricate mechanism of it.
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- Doping: To dope or not to dope?
Doping is OK in semiconductor industry whereas in athletics you could face a ban if caught. This article illustrates the ins and outs of doping.
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- Hayflick limit, Telomere and Aging
The clock within
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- Impulse Propagation In The Heart
Its about how the 'current like' action potential that spreads through the heart, after its generation, to excite different parts of cardiac tissues.
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- Mitochondria: The Veiled Lady of The Cell
Multifaceted mitochondria and their clinical and other implications.
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- Negative Feedback In The Brain
Quite a few things are common in electronics and neural physiology, negative feedback, for example.
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- Of Mighty Mice and Men
Mice are getting mightier by the day, courtesy our scientists' manipulation of their genomes. So watch out lest they start fiddling with our own genes!
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- Pacemaker Electronics
There's a similarity between the action of an electronic oscillator and the natural pacemaker of the heart.
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- Physiology physics woven fine: Logarithm in Medicine
mathematics and logarithms in medicine
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- The Circus of Arrhythmias
The mechanism of arrhythmias explained.
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- Toward An Objective Correlate Of Pain
Pain is purely subjective and we have no other options but to believe the one in agony. Here a way for the quantification of pain has been mulled upon which may be clinically and experimentally useful.
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- Trapped Inside: The Aspirin Saga
Aspirin, a versatile drug gets miserably trapped in a 'cellular black hole', from which there's no escape. The patient suffers as a result.
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