Coral Sea Can Cure Cancer

Beautiful coral reefs are saving a million uniqueness. One of them, beautiful reefs that can cure cancer.
Recently, Anya Salih from the University of Western Sydney examined using the pigment of the reef, to develop a new fluorescent label. It was intended, to help track the workings of the cell nucleus and learn what went wrong in cancer.

As reported by the Sydney Morning Herald, the gene that gives coral color will stick to the cells and molecules provide lighting on the molecule. "Activity molecule as a cell that grows and changes can be followed under the microscope using a special laser fluorescence," said Anya.

Protection manager Ian Howe Island Marine Park Kerr said that important scientific discovery and as a good pilot. "This shows, in marine biodiversity should be protected," he said

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Tomatoes may prevent cancer

Tomatoes are good for our health. Tomatoes are rich in potassium, vitamin A, vitamin C and lycopene which work as antioxidants to protect cells in our bodies. Tomatoes are also low in calories.

Harvard Research in 1995 showed that men who consume a lot of tomatoes have lower risk of prostate cancer. This is the effect of lycopene. Related lycopene vitamin A.

According to the American Cancer Society, there is strong evidence that many foods contain lycopene to help prevent lung cancer and stomach. There is also evidence that lycopene may prevent some cancers.

Tomatoes Good for the Heart
Antioxidants found in fruits and colorful plants can help keep our hearts, including tomatoes. Research shows that people with low lycopene in the body is more at risk of heart disease. Inflammasi lycopene can reduce LDL cholesterol and lower, where they can keep maintaining the health of our hearts.

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Reason to Quit Smoke

Cigarette smoke irritates the lungs and paralyses the protective cilia, tiny hari like structures that line the airways and clean out dust and dirt.

The elastic walls of the small air sacs in the lungs break down in smokers. This condition called emphysema reduces the amount of lungs tissue available for the transver of oxygen from the air to the blood.

Passive smoking may lead to asthma and other lung disorders in childreen.
Chronic infection of the lung tissue and the airways increases the risk of asthma and lung cancer, and more diseases

Cancer causing chemical in tobacco smoke
- Arsenic, used in wood preservatives
- Cadmium, used in batteries
- Chromium, used to manufacture dye, paints and alloys
- Nitrosamines, another group of DNA-damaging chemicals
- Tar, a mixture of dangerous chemicals
- Acrolein, formerly used as a chemical weapon
- Polonium 210, a highly radioactive element
- and other chemicals

Other poisons in cigarette smoke
- Carbon monoxide, found in car exhaust and used in chemicals manufacturing
- Hydrogen cyanide, used as an industrial pestiside
- Nitrogen oxides, a major component of smog
- and more poisons

Here are a few idea to get you started to quit smoke :
Improve your health, whatever your age
Giving up smoking at any age will increase your life expectancy, provided you stop before you develop cancer or another serious disease.

Save yourself thousands of pounds
Smoking is very expensive. At today's rates, smoking around twenty cigarettes a day for the next twenty years would cost you over $30,000.

Stop the stress and the guilt
More and more buildings are now non-smoking so finding a place to smoke can be quite stressful. How many times have you felt anxious because you didn’t know when you were going to get your next cigarette? Think how nice it would be not to get stressed about where you can go to smoke.

Look after those around you
If you smoke, you may be exposing your friends, partner or children to your smoke and endangering their health. Smoking may reduce your fertility and your chances of having a baby.

Look younger and more attractive
Smoking ages your skin. It also makes you smell of smoke and stains your fingers and teeth. And in the long term, smoking could damage your circulation leading to gangrene and even amputation. So give up now before it’s too late.

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Ti Nanoparticles Target Brain Cancer Cells

Nanotechnology, shortened to "Nanotech", is the study of the control of matter on an atomic and molecular scale. Generally nanotechnology deals with structures of the size 100 nanometers or smaller, and involves developing materials or devices within that size. Nanotechnology is very diverse, ranging from extensions of conventional device physics, to completely new approaches based upon molecular self assembly, to developing new materials wiht dimensions on the nanoscale, even to speculation on whether we can directly control matter on the atomic scale.
There has been much debate on the future of implications of nanotechnology. Nanotechnology has the potential to create many new materials and devices with wide-ranging appications, such as in medicine, electronics, and energy production.
On the other hand, nanotechnology raises many of the same issues as with any introduction of new technology, including concerns about the toxicity and environmental impact of nanomaterials, and their advocacy groups and governments on whether special regulation of nanotechnology is warranted.

Scientist from the DOE's Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Chicago's Brain Tumor Center have developed a way to target brain cancer cells using inorganic titanium dioxide nanoparticles bonded to soft biological material.
Thousand of people die from malignant brain tumors every year, and the tumors are resistant to conventional therapies. This nano-bio technology may eventually provide an alternative form of therapy that targets only cancer cells and does not affect normal living tissue.
"It is a real example of how nano and biological interfacing can be used for biomedical applications", said scientist Elena Rozkhova of Argonne's Center for Nanoscale Materials. We chose brain cancer because of its difficulty in treatment and its unique receptors.
This new therapy relies on a two-pronged approach. Titanium dioxide is a versatile photreactive nanomaterial that can be bonded to biomolecules. When linked to an antibody, these nanoparticles recognize and bind specifically to cancer cells. When scientists shine focused light onto the affected region, the localized titanium dioxide reacts by creating free oxygen radicals that interact with the mitochondria in the cancer cells. Mitochondria act as cellular energy plants, and when free radicals interfere with their biochemical pathways, they receive a signal to start cell death.

DOE pulse highlights work being done at the Departement of Energy's National Laboratories. DOE's laboratories house world class facilities where more than 30,000 scientists and engineers perform cutting-edge research spanning DOE's science, energy, National security and environmental quality missions. DOE pulse is distributed twice each month. Each issue will include research highlights, updates on collaborations among laboratories, and profiles of individual researchers.

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