News tagged with generations

Engineered spider toxin could be the future of anti-venom vaccines

New engineered spider protein could be the start of a new generation of anti-venom vaccines, potentially saving thousands of lives worldwide. The new protein, created from parts of a toxin from the reaper ...

Medications created May 09, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Advance directives manage end of life care issues and reduce end of life medical costs

A new article available online in the American Journal of Public Health by two Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health faculty makes a compelling case that end-of-life care issues need to become an integral part o ...

Health created May 08, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Cancer biorepository speeds clinical trials, drug development, analysis shows

Researchers at Moffitt Cancer Center say identifying and selecting participants for phase II cancer clinical trials from a centralized warehouse of patient-donated biological data expedites participant accrual, reduces trial ...

Cancer created May 08, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Scientists advance understanding of human brown adipose tissue and grow new cells (w/ Video)

Joslin scientists report significant findings about the location, genetic expression and function of human brown adipose tissue (BAT) and the generation of new BAT cells. These findings, which appear in the April 2013 issue ...

Medical research created Apr 22, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Polio eradication is achievable by 2018 and urgent, declare 400+ global scientists

Hundreds of scientists, doctors and other experts from around the world launched the Scientific Declaration on Polio Eradication today, declaring that an end to the paralyzing disease is achievable and endorsing a comprehensive ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Apr 11, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Digitally aged photos encourage young smokers to quit

Showing young people computer-generated images illustrating the effects of smoking on their appearance later in life may encourage them to quit, a new study has found.

Health created Apr 09, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Majority of Americans now favor legalizing marijuana

(HealthDay)—A majority of Americans (52 percent) now favor legalizing marijuana, and 72 percent feel that the government efforts to enforce marijuana laws are not worth their cost, according to research ...

Health created Apr 09, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

National Sleep Foundation launches free 'Sleep Disorders' online resource guide for primary care

The National Sleep Foundation (NSF) is pleased to announce the launch of a comprehensive free online sleep disorders resource for all professionals in primary care. The "Sleep Disorders" guide is the updated web version of ...

Other created Apr 02, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Report calls for strengthening of academic psychiatry

(Medical Xpress)—Professors Shitij Kapur and Sir Simon Wessely, King's College London Institute of Psychiatry, are contributors to a major new report by the Academy of Medical Sciences - Strengthening academic ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created Mar 29, 2013 | popularity 1 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Fralin entomologists map out the genetics behind a deadly disease

(Medical Xpress)—Stopping the spread of dengue infection— a potentially fatal tropical disease transmitted by the Aedes aegypti mosquito— could be one of the biggest challenges of our time. About half of the human ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Mar 21, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Wind turbine syndrome is spread by scaremongers, new study finds

A study of mine published last night delivers a double whammy to those who argue that wind turbines cause health problems in communities.

Psychology & Psychiatry created Mar 19, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Menstruation the forgotten development issue, UN body says

Aid agencies and governments must tackle the taboos surrounding menstruation as sidelining the issue undermines the quality of life of women and girls, chiefly in poor nations, a UN body said Wednesday.

Health created Mar 06, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Long noncoding RNAs control development of fat cells

Whitehead Institute researchers have identified a previously unrecognized layer of genetic regulation that is necessary for the generation of undesirable white fat cells. When this regulation is disrupted, white fat cells ...

Overweight and Obesity created Feb 13, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Number of people with Alzheimer's disease may triple by 2050

The number of people with Alzheimer's disease is expected to triple in the next 40 years, according to a new study published in the February 6, 2013, online issue of Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neu ...

Alzheimer's disease & dementia created Feb 06, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 2

Brain circuit that makes it hard for obese people to lose weight

(Medical Xpress)—Imagine you are driving a car, and the harder you press on the accelerator, the harder an invisible foot presses on the brake. That's what happens when obese people diet – the less food they eat, the ...

Medical research created Feb 06, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Generation

Generation (from the Latin generāre, meaning "to beget"), also known as procreation in biological sciences, is the act of producing offspring. In a more general sense, it can also refer to the act of creating something inanimate such as ideas, sound, electrical generation using technology or cryptographic code generation.

A generation can refer to stages of successive improvement in the development of a technology such as the internal combustion engine, or successive iterations of products with planned obsolescence, such as video game consoles or mobile phones.

In biology, the process by which populations of organisms pass on advantageous traits from generation to generation is known as evolution.

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