Daily Archives: June 20, 2016
Cancer prevention guidelines are associated with lower cancer risk in low-income and African American populations
Cancer is a major public health burden as an estimated 1,685,210 new cancer cases will be diagnosed in the United States in 2016. In general, African Americans and Americans with low socioeconomic status tend to have higher
Regional Alzheimer’s disease research
According to World Alzheimer Report 2015, over 46 million people live with dementia worldwide. The incidence of dementia is estimated over 9.9 million every year, and nearly half of new dementia cases (4.9 million) occurred in Asia.
The use of fingeprints available on the web to forge identity documents in Brazil
Fingerprints images available on the web have been used by criminals to forge identity documents in Brazil, sometimes printed in a reversed (mirrored) way in the documents. In this work, 100 fingerprints images downloaded from the web,
A molecular LEGO brick
Imagine that we have at our disposal a set of LEGO® construction bricks of nanometric dimensions (there are one million nanometers in one millimeter)! We would then be able to use these “nano-bricks” to construct “nano-buildings” and
Extraction residue of dried persimmon fruits shows antioxidant potential in vivo
Fruits and vegetables are useful for human health. They have bioactive constituents called “phytochemicals”, which show antioxidant activities. Most of the phytochemicals are small molecules and soluble compounds. Therefore, in vitro evaluation of the antioxidant activity of
