There’s no denying my love for my daily, delicious, hot cup of coffee. While it’s my habit to drink coffee in the dawn and have green tea later in the day for a pick-me-up, others tend to get their caffeine fix right before a workout since caffeine can improve performance and increase endurance....

Reese Witherspoon is one of those celebs who loves to work out (and it shows!) When she’s not jogging or working external the gym, according to the latest issue of Shape magazine, she takes YogaHop classes. These 90-minute workouts incorporate yoga poses with booming hip-hop, rock, and pop music....

As that year comes to an end, we’re looking at the best of everything 2008, and Prevention is doing their own tribute to that eventful year with a list of the top medical breakthroughs. The magazine researched journals and talked to experts about how medical thinking changed in 2008, and particularly...

CeloNova BioSciences out of Newnan, Georgia has received FDA clearance for the firm’s Embozene Color-Advanced Microspheres for treatment of hypervascularized tumors. Classified as an embolic device, the microspheres are based on the company’s proprietary fabric poly[bis(trifluroexthoxy)phosphazene],...

MIT researchers have developed a computer modeling technique to assist in the fight against malaria, a disease which still accounts for 1/3rd of all deaths in children under 5 worldwide. The software analyzes many environment factors involved in malaria spread and can help predict what various interventions...

Princeton scientists have developed a new more energy efficient way to generate laser light. The finding should allow for building of miniature diagnostic devices that monitor light’s attenuation in a liquid sample, potentially main to specialized blood glucose meters and other similar devices. The...

For humans vigilant about their caffeine intake comes a new product that can tryout their decafs on the go. The D+caf analysis strips from Silver Lake Research Corporation out of Monrovia, California, can tell whether a six ounce cup of joe has more than 20mg of caffeine. Some notes from the product...

Could the promising world of gene-therapy even compose geeks more popular? A study released by behavioral geneticist S. Alexandra Burt of the Michigan State University demonstrates that the behavioral expression of a “rule-breaking” gene is linked to popularity in adolescents. So that’s...

Who would have thought there would be a reason to manufacture sugar-free antibodies? Well, researches at MIT did! It has towering been thought that a specific sugar attachment was called for for antibody function but new research shows that to not be the case. that opens the door to mass producing therapeutic...

At Christmas play and build good cheer, For Christmas comes but once a year – Thomas Tusser Do your New Year’s resolutions include losing weight and cutting back on a few of your indulgences? May not be a poor concept, but just in case you need another rationalization during the holidays,...

Haemair Ltd., a Welsh company out of Swansea, has won that year’s Stopford Projects Award for Bioprocess Innovation from the UK’s Institution of Chemical Engineers. The company says that it is working on a compact prosthetic lung capable of doing the gas exchange for conscious and mobile...