Eva Ekvall, 28 years old lost her life in battle with breast cancer on 17 Dec 2011. She held the title of Miss Venezuela at an age of 17 in 2000. She was third runner-up in the Miss Universe pageant in Puerto Rico. She later on became a model, actress and television news anchor. Eva Ekvall - Former Miss Venezuela She was married to radio producer John Fabio Bermudez and had a 2-year-old daughter. On... 

Researchers from University of Michigan, USA and Spain have discovered new unknown viruses in raw sewage after lots of attempts to identify the unknown viruses from the sewage of various cities. The researchers have found 234 known viruses in the sewage, which includes the human papillomavirus and the horrible, dreaded norovirus (pictured below), which causes humans to endure both diarrhea and vomiting... 

Warning! The images shown below might be disturbing to some visitors and young children. Do not let your children see these images or people around you with weak heart A woman delivered a baby with two faces in a hospital in Rawalpindi, a city of Pakistan. The baby has two sets of eyes, noses, and lips, and one pair of ears. He is the third child of the couple. Doctors are trying to save the life of... 

Sudanese twins born with the tops of their heads joined together have been separated in a rare and risky series of operations at a London children’s hospital, officials said Sunday. A charity organization called “Facing the World” helped finance this surgery. The girls, Rital and Ritag Gaboura, are aged 11, Such twins who have their heads joined are called craniopagus twins and the... 

British scientists at University of Sheffield have created a special type of gel, which when applied over areas with suspected infection, The gel helps to reveal infected areas which appear pink when observed using UV lamp glows pink confirming infection. The gel contains molecules that light up in presence of bacteria. The detection of infections otherwise, takes several days so this invention is... 

3-D Printers are one of the most fascinating manufacturing devices of modern era. While they’ve been used to make intricate objects like cups etc, but the most fascinating product has just come out using it which are artificial blood cells. The technique has been developed by German scientists at Fraunhofer Institute The technique involves printing artificial biological molecules with a 3-D inkjet... 

Researchers led by ETH professor Yaakov Benenson and MIT professor Ron Weiss have prepared a ‘biological’ computer that can track down maligned cells in human body and destroy them. The ‘computer’ detects cancerous cells using a logic based on 5 characteristics of cancer cells i.e on detection of these 5 traits, a cell is treated as cancerous and is destroyed. How it destroys... 

Cornell University scientists have developed tissue grafts that can be used to heal wounds, third-degree burns, traumatic accidents, disfigurements and other damages that require surgery. These tissues speed up vascular growth & let new and healthy skin to hide the wounded area, thus eliminating need of surgery.   These tissues, known as dermal templates, consist of tissue scaffolds that... 

Australian & Swedish researchers have found evidences that may have something to play a role with the problem of male infertility.   According to the findings published in magazine Science, the small set of genes located within the power source of our cells – mitochondria hold the secrets to male infertility.   Most of genes of human body are subjected to a stringent quality-control... 

Menieres Disease is an ear disease that effects both the steadiness and hearing of patients who suffer from it. The illness is named after the French doctor who, in the eighteen hundreds, first wrote an article about the relationship of inner ear disorders and cases of vertigo. The condition affects patients differently but most have attacks of tinnitus, gradual hearing loss that is unilateral or bilateral,...