This article is about a very small invention of Bill Costerton and David Dickensheets. It’s all about a microscope so tiny that according to the description given in this article, it can fit between one’s teeth and gums, or even pierce an eardrum. What’s so special about this invention aside from its side it that […]

Biopsy is a removal of sample tissue, and using a binocular biological microscope for the purpose of diagnosis. Apart from the said equipment, the diagnosis of the featured method may also be attained by any other means as well specifically by analysis of genes and chromosomes.

A chemical brain receptor known as N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) and which is associated with learning and memory is perceived to play a key role in respiratory system of the fetus. This brain receptor was isolated using high-powered binocular biological microscopes.

The original article stated that recent scientific discovery in Colombus, Ohio, have shown that genetic mutation, a cause of childhood cancer, retinoblastoma could disrupt placental functions which cause fetal death and miscarriage in laboratory animals, a fact that calls for further research on Rb gene’s link with cancer. Cancer is usually diagnosed thru tissue biopsy […]

During heart failure, according to the original article, it is known for years that the heart express genes but which occurs only in the fetal heart. If this reactivation does happen, what regulates it is not known. Investigations, according to the original article, now have discovered the enzyme that regulates enlargement of the heart cells […]

From the original article, a new hypothesis  by a team of researchers from Penn State University considered the cause of diabetes in new born babies as the lack of enzymes called Pancreatic Endoplasmic Reticulum Kinase (PERK) during the development in the pre-stages of birth. Diabetes is the inability to regulate glucose normally because the beta […]

From the original article, stem cells like the legendary Peter Pan, has the quality of refusing to grow up and commit to a particular path in the placenta.  The cell needs a niche where they can grow and divide without being nudged along the path of commitment and that if they are taken out of […]