AROUND THE PASSION OF ACID APOCALYPSE IN JUNE 2014 GLOWING

Passions around Acid Apocalypse of June 2014 is heating up
Dr. Albert Shervinsky, one of the astrophysicists of Cambridge, close to NASA, predicts that in June 2014 the solar system can destroy an acid cloud.

According to the scientist, now it is moving to our planet, and not just in the next year will clash, after which all living things die. Meanwhile, in the NASA said they did not have data on the acid cloud.

British astrophysicist Albert Shervinsky said that our planet from space moves the acid cloud that was born out of the black hole. The scientist making such statements, refers to his calculations, according to Rossiyskaya Gazeta. Shervinsky says that several years ago the cosmic X-ray Observatory, NASA «Chandra has recorded a huge cloud of dust and acid mist which is approaching Earth, destroying all the planets in their path.

Shervinsky believes that this cloud was generated by the activity of the black hole in the Milky Way. The good news is that finding the cloud confirms some pretty sharp ideas discussed in theoretical physics. The bad news is that the complete destruction of the solar system is inevitable, - said before Shervinsky himself, his words led Valery Chumakov in his book The End of the World: Forecasts and Scenarios . It should be noted that the data on the acid cloud appeared in the media a few years ago and periodically pop up again.

Meanwhile, NASA denied the information about the upcoming end of the world because of the acid cloud. Such data, the agency has not. However, some believe that NASA deliberately hides much of the information so as not to cause panic. As for the Russian scientists, they comment on the news of the cosmic cloud with noticeable skepticism.

It's some incredible nonsense. Like, say, the name of astrophysics? Shervinsky?

I only know the character of Bulgakov's The White Guard with a name like that, but I do not know astrophysics. So sleep well, no acid cloud is not - said the newspaper Evening Moscow graduate student of astrophysics and stellar astronomy MSU. University Vladimir Lipunov.

Regular communications about the Apocalypse begin to appear regularly with the approach of the new year. In the past year actively exaggerated theme that December 21, 2012 the Earth is waiting for the Apocalypse. It has been reported that the lama from the monastery Gyandrek under Kailas, known as the Oracle of Shambhala, wrote that the Earth will be in a certain area of approximately zero at 10 am Moscow time.

And it is in this day must end the Mayan calendar and come to an end. Despite this, the saga of the end of the world and has remained something and science fiction.

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Viral and bacterial infections require different treatment

Viral and bacterial infections require different treatment of viral and bacterial infections require different treatments, but to distinguish one from the other is not easy. Now scientists have proposed a new approach to solving this problem.

When a patient with obvious symptoms of acute respiratory infection and fever comes to the doctor, he must first of all establish what caused the infection - virus or bacterium. The answer to this question most directly affect the choice of effective medical therapy: for antiviral drugs are not suitable for the control of bacteria, and antibiotics are useless against viruses.

Until now, doctors have used for this purpose to a diagnostic laboratory tests to isolate and identify the causative agent of the particular disease.

Instead of finding the causative agent - the analysis of gene activity

Now a team of American scientists proposed a different approach to the problem. Epidemiologist Christopher Woods (Christopher Woods), a professor of the Faculty of Medicine at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, explains former method of doing this kind of research was to identify the specific infectious agents. Of course, this gives the doctor valuable information, but such tests have two major drawbacks: first, they require a lot of time, and secondly, are only suitable for the detection of known pathogens.

Our new approach not based on the identification of pathogenic microorganisms, and on reception characteristics of the immune response of the human body to the infection.

The trick is, that the immune response caused by a bacterial infection, characterized by an immune response caused by a viral infection. Professor Woods and his colleagues have developed a technique that allows to detect these differences on the basis of the activity of several genes in white blood cells - white blood cells. We take a blood sample and isolate it from the laboratory of RNA - explains the scientist. - It allows us to measure the activity of genes.

We are interested in not all but only a well-defined genes, about which we know that they respond to a viral infection.

The average reliability of the rapid test - more than 90 percent

In their experiments, the researchers infected a group of 41 volunteer influenza virus subtypes and H3N2/Viskonsin H1N1/Brisben to trace the response of the immune system at the genetic level. Scientists were able to identify three dozen genes that are active in response to viral infection has increased dramatically. Bacterial infection is, however, on the activity of these genes had no effect, making it possible to select them as markers.

The researchers then conducted tests of their test on 102 patients who applied to the University Hospital emergency room complaining of flu-like symptoms and a high temperature. Rechecking the results of this new diagnosis by conventional diagnostic tests, researchers have seen in the high reliability of the genetic test: positive results were correct in 89 percent of cases, negative - in 94.protsentah.

Quick test as a means to combat antibiotic resistance

Test developers are hoping that its introduction into clinical practice will reduce the use of antibiotics. In the year that we record about 23 thousand deaths caused by pathogenic bacteria resistant to antibiotics - says Professor Woods. - A contributes to the development of resistance to this excessive use of antibiotics - sometimes they are given, even in situations where they are completely useless. We believe that our test will help your doctor to quickly find and distinguish bacterial infection that actually requires the use of antibiotics against viral infections, against which they are powerless.

This will reduce the evolutionary pressure on the bacteria, which is a consequence of the development of resistance.

Another important advantage of the new test is that it does not respond to the a particular virus, the immune response of the body caused by any virus infection. Thus, it is effective even if the disease is caused by some entirely new, unknown to science virus.

Save time by reducing the number of markers

Finally, a big advantage of the test is that it is able to detect the infection before it causes the typical clinical symptoms, even if the immune reaction occurs while seemingly unnoticed, it immediately causes a change in gene activity that is recorded and the test. This capability takes on a special value in the spread of a new pandemic virus, says Professor Woods: We will be able to know what the patient is already infected, and which have not yet, which is in urgent need of therapy and which may well wait.

So far, however, the test is not yet ready for use in clinical practice: the analysis takes 12 hours, and it is too long, especially in cases of emergency. However, the developers are hoping that in the next year or two, they can significantly reduce the duration of the analysis - primarily by reducing the number of analyzed markers. There is every reason to believe that the effectiveness of the test will not suffer if the activity is not limited to the measurement of all three dozen genes that appeared so far in the course of research, but only some of them.

This will save a lot of time.

Vladimir Fradkin

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What is the difference between bacteria and viruses?

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Both viruses and bacteria can cause infections. While these infections may feel similar, they are actually caused by different germs. It's important to know the difference between infections caused by bacteria and those caused by viruses. Antibiotics treat bacterial infections and won't work for viral infections. Using antibiotics to treat viral infections can lead to the development of antibiotic resistance.

Find out more about what a virus is at http://www.nps.org.au/conditions/comm...
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TRAVEL IN ORBIT bad for the state of the retina and optic nerve

Travelling to orbit bad for the state of the retina and optic nerve If traveling into orbit bad for the state of the retina and optic nerve, what will happen to the more distant travel, we have to assume only.

Retinal degeneration; visible region have lost a layer of pigmented cells that normally support the work of photoreceptor layer. (Photo by Lester V. Bergman.)

Ever since man was launched into space, the world never cease to excite global threats and hopes associated with extraterrestrial space. Aliens! Meteorites! The fading of the sun!

Loneliness in the universe! And so on ... We constantly develop plans in case of a meeting with an alien civilization, and discuss the space-time kunshtyukov in that can get Gagarin in space faced with the unknown physics of them.

Over time, however, it became clear that one of the most unpleasant kosmosyurprizov associated not so much with the extraterrestrial physics and newcomers as well with terrestrial biology. For the time being no one just did not think about the fact that people adapted to life on Earth, and the space - not our environment. So there is not ours, that it can stay pretty upset the body works at the molecular genetic level.

For example, we already know that the scouts deep space, most likely, in addition to other pleasures, will face blindness. A banal stay in weightlessness impairs vision. And if you come back to the heroes who rush on our orbit, it is worth to take care of the fact that they have the perfect set of genes ...

In general, yes, space is terrible for health advance, and what stays, to put it mildly, is accompanied by some problems with physiology, has never been a secret for professionals, just with the time scale of the problem became clear: they are now diagnosed in a variety of systems of the body.

About troubles with eyes in astronauts first began in 2001 (hello, Kubrick!). And this is a very serious conversations and diagnoses, up tomacular degeneration (Macular degeneration), which can lead to blindness (in the world it is, we recall, is developing into quite a late age). In 2011, NASA initiated a detailed eye examination in the seven astronauts who have spent in orbit for at least six months.

The result revealed that the space heroes misshapen eyeball and there is an anomaly in the choroid membrane, which lies behind the retina and is feeding blood vessels. These anomalies and strain apparently caused swelling of the optic nerve.

Of course, the first thing that comes to my mind - is the solar radiation: Is it she is the cause of molecular, cellular and physiological problems? The second thing that can affect our biology - the lack of gravity. Assess the impact of these factors on the eyes of the scientists tried Lyndon Johnson Space Center at NASA and The Methodist Hospital of Houston (USA): they ran the mice in the 13-day journey on the space shuttle Discovery and then compared the activity of genes in the retina of the animals on the first, fifth and the seventh day after the flight.

At the same time, Patricia Sheva-Barios (Patricia Chevez-Barrios) held several laboratory mice in conditions close to the space, and some animals were in regular terrestrial setting.

The ship is not able to provide equally good protection against cosmic radiation, like the earth's atmosphere, and because of this the cells caught in an unfamiliar environment, increases the level of oxygen radicals that damage biomolecules and intracellular organelles. And it makes the work more actively genes resisting oxidative stress. This is what is seen in mice, researchers have returned from space: in the retina of animal genes have fought hard to oxidative stress.

However, after a week of antioxidant genes calmed down.

Retina mouse under the microscope: the red thread - the fibers of the optic nerve, the blue pipes - the blood vessels, Green stars - glial cells. (Photo Visuals Unlimited / Corbis.)

Of course, these mice were in orbit a little longer, and perhaps they flocked there for half a year or longer, in the eyes of the pathology caused by oxidative stress, would have been much stronger. However, scientists were able to see and changes that remained in the animals and a week stay on Earth.

In the optic nerve in rodents, according to the authors, there was too much of the protein beta-amyloid. Its appearance accompanies nerve damage, in addition, excess beta-amyloid protein deposits in the form of Alzheimer's disease. Well, in addition to beta-amyloid in the optic nerve, a large number of glial cells, which again can be seen as a response to some damage.

JOHN JACKSON DIED FROM OVERDOSE caffeine in mints

John Jackson died from an overdose of caffeine mints PO Britain received the tragic news - 40-year-old John Jackson died from an overdose of caffeine. Where he took so much! Just mints with caffeine.

Still particularly unpleasant poisoned by what seems a harmless candy, right?


Oh, you are our romantic ... (Fig. Izheny123.)

Everyone knows that caffeine - a psychostimulant that promotes concentration. At the same time, it causes the heart to beat faster and stronger, so in high concentrations can cause serious problems and even death. However, despite the widespread consumption of caffeine-containing drinks and pills overdose death is very rare.

In this case poor swallowed whole can lozenges, each containing 80 mg of caffeine - in a same portion of energy drink moderate force. In total, there were 12 pack of chocolates. Strange, because in fact this is not enough.

Web calculator Death by Caffeine, where you can calculate how much you have left to cups of coffee and chocolate bars, claims that the lethal dose for a 70 kg person is equal to 132 such candies (or - get ready, Khaletskiy - banks energotonik).

Apparently, the body should blame the hapless Jackson. Sensitivity to caffeine and its ability to break down all people are different. In a recent study revealed that fans of energy drinks sometimes show signs of poisoning (heartbeat, the demise of the heart muscle, etc.), even if not drunk more than fixed.

To get to the hospital, enough to absorb some three to eight cans in a row, though, according to the common scale, they had to get rid of symptoms of mild intoxication.

You can select multiple factors of increased susceptibility, and chief among them - heart disease. As Jackson accident, it is likely summed liver.

Caffeine (and other stimulants of tea and cola - theophylline and theobromine) splits in the liver specific enzyme (cytochrome P450 1A2, if you are interested in technical details). In the liver, different people different amounts of this enzyme, and the reasons for that are numerous: for example, the gene is missing or damaged.

By the way, do not give chocolate to dogs just because they have very little canine version of the enzyme, and they are more susceptible to the toxic effects of theobromine and caffeine.

Approximately 40% of Caucasians have a version of an enzyme which cleaves caffeine slowly. These people increased heart attacks and pressure correlated with the consumption of caffeine.

Poor Jackson suffered cirrhosis of the liver, which, among other things, significantly reduces the ability of the body to break down various substances, including caffeine. According opening in its body detected 155 mg of caffeine per liter of blood. If the same amount of caffeine swallowed a healthy person with all the necessary genes, the rate would not exceed 10-20 mg / l.

By the way, the packaging of candy warns about excessive caffeine content and recommends to use for a day not more than five pieces. There note that individuals sensitive to caffeine, this Confection better not touch at all. However, suffering from cirrhosis or hepatitis are not always sensitive to caffeine, and sometimes simply can not imagine that it is a warning to them.

Furthermore, the front side of the package is no mention that the caffeine contained in chocolates. There are no words on the manufacturer's website.

So Mr. Jackson may be to blame but that does not read the writing on the reverse side of the banks, but it cost him his life. A good lesson? ..

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Michael Savage - Ashton Kutcher Hospitalized Over Fruitarian Diet for Steve Jobs Biopic - 1/29/13

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Michael Savage on January 29, 2013, Website: http://www.michaelsavage.com --- Story: "Ashton Kutcher was hospitalized days before shooting the upcoming Steve Jobs biopic after adopting the businessman's "fruitarian diet" to prepare for the role. The actor plays the lead in new movie "jOBS" and he did all he could to accurately portray the late Apple chief, even changing his eating plan to include just fruits, nuts and seeds.

However, Kutcher was left "doubled over in pain" after sticking to the diet, and sought medical advice in hospital.

He tells the Associated Press, "(The diet) can lead to some serious issues. I ended up in the hospital two days before we started shooting the movie.

"I was like doubled over in pain, and my pancreas levels were completely out of whack, which was completely terrifying, considering everything."

Jobs died of complications from pancreatic cancer in 2011.