Drunk Science – Your Body’s Guide to Processing Alcohol
Drinking affects many different regions of the brain and body. Drinking too much can even cause a painful and sudden death. Did you know that depending on your gender and how much you weigh there is a limit on what you can ingest before dropping dead from alcohol poisoning? If a stupor is all you’re […]
4 Alternative Energy Sources To Save The Environment
Energy crisis is one of the most important problems faced by people these days. As petroleum products are not renewable energy sources, we have to look beyond them. Even though there are plenty of these resources inside the earth, no one knows when we lose it completely. Besides that, they are very harmful to environment […]
How Ketosis Works On Your Body?
The purpose of Ketogenic diet is to force the human body to remain in its glycogen-deprived state and sustain mild ketosis. Ketosis is known as the phase when the body burns fat to be used for energy. To achieve the ketosis stage, you must learn to lessen your carbs intake and to increase your consumption […]
Four Interesting Things You Should Know About Peptides
A peptide is a chain of amino acids that can act as a basis of protein in the human body. Because peptides can be used as a protein, they are very popular and commonly used in a variety of products that people use every day such as cosmetics, medications, and body building protein powder. There […]
Why Do We Need Hair on Skin?
It seems like body hair doesn’t have an important purpose, so many of you probably ask – why do we grow body hair when we don’t need it? The answer to this question is provided by a team of researchers who found out that our body hair can help us detect parasites and bugs. This […]
Physicists Devised Method for Building Artificial Tissues
Physicists from the New York University have created a unique method which replicates the biological cell-to-cell adhesion. This method can also be applied in different industrial applications.
Composition of Blood
Blood is an essential part of the body of every human and most animals and insects. This is a liquid which is red in color. Blood is a living tissue which constantly circulates throughout the human body. Blood contains two main components: 1- Blood Cells 2- Blood Plasma Blood plasma is nonliving, pale yellow, intercellular […]
How Blood Transfusion is Done?
Blood Transfusion Blood transfusion is something very common and this simple operation is performed in every hospital. Carl Landsteiner was the first scientist to discover that special antigens can be found on the surface of some antibodies in the plasma and erythrocytes.
How the Blood Clots?
Blood Clotting: The process of blood clotting has several stages: 1- Blood platelets are ruptured by the injury. 2- They release thromboplastin. 3- Thromboplastin turns prothrombin in thrombin. 4- Thrombin converts the liquid fibrinogen in solid fibrin fibres which create a web at the wound. 5. The blood cells caught in the web form a […]
Fission and Its Types : Binary Fission and Multiple Fission
Fission takes place in single celled organisms. It is further divided into two types binary fission and multiple fission. 1- BINARY FISSION In binary fission two single celled organisms are produced through mitotic division. In this process, the nucleus and cytoplasm are divided as well, which results in two single celled organisms that are identical […]