LONDON: A Chennai-born post-doctoral fellow at the Natural History Museum of Denmark has now turned the archaeological world upside down on the origin of modern day Native Americans.
Results from a DNA study of a young boy's skeletal remains believed to have died 24,000 years old has shed new light on the origins of the first people to colonize America much before Christopher Columbus.
Indian and British scientists on Wednesday received grant of $100,000 each, to use graphene and create the world's next generation condoms that would be thinner, stronger, more elastic and extra pleasurable.
Graphene was first isolated at the University of Manchester in 2004 by Russian scientists Sir Andre Geim and Sir Kostya Novoselov - a feat that earned them the Nobel Prize for Physics in 2010. Ever since, over 7,500 graphene based patents worldwide have been files for its use in creating smartphones to computer chips.
On Wednesday, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation announced that it will fund University of Manchester's National Graphene Institute and India's HLL Lifecare Limited to create the next generaion condom.
Aravind Vijayaraghavan and a team from the University of Manchester proposes to develop new elastic composite materials for condoms containing nano materials like graphene. This composite material will be tailored to enhance the natural sensation during intercourse while using a condom, which is expected to encourage condom use.
Lakshminarayanan Ragupathy from HLL Lifecare Ltd on the other hand will work to improve the safety and enhance the sensitivity of male condoms by incorporating graphene or its derivatives into condom-making materials.
Graphene is a single-layer, crystalline form of carbon that is highly elastic and very strong. It also conducts heat. They will mix graphene with currently used condom materials to produce thinner, heat conducting condoms and incorporate drugs and compounds to further enhance safety as well as sexual experience.
Another interesting project funded on Wednesday was to Benjamin Strutt and a team from Cambridge Design Partnership in the UK who are designing a male condom made from a composite anisotropic material that will provide universal fit and is designed to gently tighten during intercourse, enhancing sensation and reliability.
Mark McGlothlin of Apex Medical Technologies in the US received another $100,000 grant to produce a male condom with enhanced strength and sensitivity using collagen fibrils from cow tendons, which are widely available from meat processing. This would provide a hydrated micro-rough skin-like surface texture that facilitates heat transfer to produce a more natural sensation. They will develop methods to best arrange the fibrils and more safely crosslink them.
The Foundation says male condoms are cheap, easy to manufacture, easy to distribute and available globally. The current rate of global production is 15 billion units/year with an estimated 750 million users and a steadily growing market. When used properly, they reliably protect females from pregnancy and both partners from numerous sexually transmitted infections, including HIV transmission.
A major obstacle to more consistent and universal use of male condoms is the perceived trade-off of decreased pleasure and loss of erection caused by condoms weighed against the protection against unwanted pregnancy and STIs. Many men find this trade-off unacceptable, particularly given that the decisions about condom use must be made just prior to intercourse.
"We are looking for a next generation condom that significantly preserves or enhances pleasure, in order to improve uptake and regular use." The Foundation said.
Researchers from the Florida State University studied 135 heterosexual couples who had been married for less than six months and then followed up with them every six months over a four-year period. "Although they may be largely unwilling or unable to verbalize them, people's automatic evaluations of their partners predict one of the most important outcomes of their lives — the trajectory of their marital satisfaction," the researchers said.
The study found people's conscious attitudes, or how they said they felt, did not always reflect their gut-level or automatic feelings about their marriage. It was the gut-level feelings, not their conscious ones, that actually predicted how happy they remained over time. To conduct the experiment, the researchers asked the individuals to report their relationship satisfaction and the severity of their specific relationship problems.
The participants also were asked to provide their conscious evaluations by describing their marriage according to 15 pairs of opposing adjectives, such as "good" or "bad," "satisfied" or "unsatisfied." Another experiment involved flashing a photo of the study participant's spouse on a computer screen for just one-third of a second followed by a positive word like "awesome" or "terrific" or a negative word like "awful" or "terrible." The individuals simply had to press a key on the keyboard to indicate whether the word was positive or negative.
"People who have really positive feelings about their partners are very quick to indicate that words like 'awesome' are positive words and very slow to indicate that words like 'awful' are negative words," said associate professor of Psychology James K McNulty. People with positive gut-level attitudes were really good at processing positive words but bad at processing negative words when those automatic attitudes were activated. The opposite was also true.
Indian and British scientists on Wednesday received grant of $100,000 each, to use graphene and create the world's next generation condoms that would be thinner, stronger, more elastic and extra pleasurable.
Graphene was first isolated at the University of Manchester in 2004 by Russian scientists Sir Andre Geim and Sir Kostya Novoselov - a feat that earned them the Nobel Prize for Physics in 2010. Ever since, over 7,500 graphene based patents worldwide have been files for its use in creating smartphones to computer chips.
On Wednesday, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation announced that it will fund University of Manchester's National Graphene Institute and India's HLL Lifecare Limited to create the next generaion condom.
Aravind Vijayaraghavan and a team from the University of Manchester proposes to develop new elastic composite materials for condoms containing nano materials like graphene. This composite material will be tailored to enhance the natural sensation during intercourse while using a condom, which is expected to encourage condom use.
Lakshminarayanan Ragupathy from HLL Lifecare Ltd on the other hand will work to improve the safety and enhance the sensitivity of male condoms by incorporating graphene or its derivatives into condom-making materials.
Graphene is a single-layer, crystalline form of carbon that is highly elastic and very strong. It also conducts heat. They will mix graphene with currently used condom materials to produce thinner, heat conducting condoms and incorporate drugs and compounds to further enhance safety as well as sexual experience.
Another interesting project funded on Wednesday was to Benjamin Strutt and a team from Cambridge Design Partnership in the UK who are designing a male condom made from a composite anisotropic material that will provide universal fit and is designed to gently tighten during intercourse, enhancing sensation and reliability.
Mark McGlothlin of Apex Medical Technologies in the US received another $100,000 grant to produce a male condom with enhanced strength and sensitivity using collagen fibrils from cow tendons, which are widely available from meat processing. This would provide a hydrated micro-rough skin-like surface texture that facilitates heat transfer to produce a more natural sensation. They will develop methods to best arrange the fibrils and more safely crosslink them.
The Foundation says male condoms are cheap, easy to manufacture, easy to distribute and available globally. The current rate of global production is 15 billion units/year with an estimated 750 million users and a steadily growing market. When used properly, they reliably protect females from pregnancy and both partners from numerous sexually transmitted infections, including HIV transmission.
A major obstacle to more consistent and universal use of male condoms is the perceived trade-off of decreased pleasure and loss of erection caused by condoms weighed against the protection against unwanted pregnancy and STIs. Many men find this trade-off unacceptable, particularly given that the decisions about condom use must be made just prior to intercourse.
"We are looking for a next generation condom that significantly preserves or enhances pleasure, in order to improve uptake and regular use." The Foundation said.
DALLAS: Cardiologists are taking aim at treating and preventing heart disease, the world's No. 1 killer, with a more personalized approach under a new research collaboration that will marry data with the evolving understanding of genetics.
The effort, being billed as Heart Studies v2.0 and which was announced on Sunday, will be a collaboration of the American Heart Association (AHA) along with Boston University and the University of Mississippi, which oversee ongoing landmark population studies, the Framingham Heart Study and the Jackson Heart Study, respectively.
LONDON: A Chennai-born post-doctoral fellow at the Natural History Museum of Denmark has now turned the archaeological world upside down on the origin of modern day Native Americans.
Results from a DNA study of a young boy's skeletal remains believed to have died 24,000 years old has shed new light on the origins of the first people to colonize America much before Christopher Columbus.
Indian and British scientists on Wednesday received grant of $100,000 each, to use graphene and create the world's next generation condoms that would be thinner, stronger, more elastic and extra pleasurable.
Graphene was first isolated at the University of Manchester in 2004 by Russian scientists Sir Andre Geim and Sir Kostya Novoselov - a feat that earned them the Nobel Prize for Physics in 2010. Ever since, over 7,500 graphene based patents worldwide have been files for its use in creating smartphones to computer chips.
On Wednesday, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation announced that it will fund University of Manchester's National Graphene Institute and India's HLL Lifecare Limited to create the next generaion condom.
Aravind Vijayaraghavan and a team from the University of Manchester proposes to develop new elastic composite materials for condoms containing nano materials like graphene. This composite material will be tailored to enhance the natural sensation during intercourse while using a condom, which is expected to encourage condom use.
Lakshminarayanan Ragupathy from HLL Lifecare Ltd on the other hand will work to improve the safety and enhance the sensitivity of male condoms by incorporating graphene or its derivatives into condom-making materials.
Graphene is a single-layer, crystalline form of carbon that is highly elastic and very strong. It also conducts heat. They will mix graphene with currently used condom materials to produce thinner, heat conducting condoms and incorporate drugs and compounds to further enhance safety as well as sexual experience.
Another interesting project funded on Wednesday was to Benjamin Strutt and a team from Cambridge Design Partnership in the UK who are designing a male condom made from a composite anisotropic material that will provide universal fit and is designed to gently tighten during intercourse, enhancing sensation and reliability.
Mark McGlothlin of Apex Medical Technologies in the US received another $100,000 grant to produce a male condom with enhanced strength and sensitivity using collagen fibrils from cow tendons, which are widely available from meat processing. This would provide a hydrated micro-rough skin-like surface texture that facilitates heat transfer to produce a more natural sensation. They will develop methods to best arrange the fibrils and more safely crosslink them.
The Foundation says male condoms are cheap, easy to manufacture, easy to distribute and available globally. The current rate of global production is 15 billion units/year with an estimated 750 million users and a steadily growing market. When used properly, they reliably protect females from pregnancy and both partners from numerous sexually transmitted infections, including HIV transmission.
A major obstacle to more consistent and universal use of male condoms is the perceived trade-off of decreased pleasure and loss of erection caused by condoms weighed against the protection against unwanted pregnancy and STIs. Many men find this trade-off unacceptable, particularly given that the decisions about condom use must be made just prior to intercourse.
"We are looking for a next generation condom that significantly preserves or enhances pleasure, in order to improve uptake and regular use." The Foundation said.
DALLAS: Cardiologists are taking aim at treating and preventing heart disease, the world's No. 1 killer, with a more personalized approach under a new research collaboration that will marry data with the evolving understanding of genetics.
The effort, being billed as Heart Studies v2.0 and which was announced on Sunday, will be a collaboration of the American Heart Association (AHA) along with Boston University and the University of Mississippi, which oversee ongoing landmark population studies, the Framingham Heart Study and the Jackson Heart Study, respectively.
LONDON: A Chennai-born post-doctoral fellow at the Natural History Museum of Denmark has now turned the archaeological world upside down on the origin of modern day Native Americans.
Results from a DNA study of a young boy's skeletal remains believed to have died 24,000 years old has shed new light on the origins of the first people to colonize America much before Christopher Columbus.
DALLAS: Cardiologists are taking aim at treating and preventing heart disease, the world's No. 1 killer, with a more personalized approach under a new research collaboration that will marry data with the evolving understanding of genetics.
The effort, being billed as Heart Studies v2.0 and which was announced on Sunday, will be a collaboration of the American Heart Association (AHA) along with Boston University and the University of Mississippi, which oversee ongoing landmark population studies, the Framingham Heart Study and the Jackson Heart Study, respectively.
Indian and British scientists on Wednesday received grant of $100,000 each, to use graphene and create the world's next generation condoms that would be thinner, stronger, more elastic and extra pleasurable.
Graphene was first isolated at the University of Manchester in 2004 by Russian scientists Sir Andre Geim and Sir Kostya Novoselov - a feat that earned them the Nobel Prize for Physics in 2010. Ever since, over 7,500 graphene based patents worldwide have been files for its use in creating smartphones to computer chips.
On Wednesday, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation announced that it will fund University of Manchester's National Graphene Institute and India's HLL Lifecare Limited to create the next generaion condom.
Aravind Vijayaraghavan and a team from the University of Manchester proposes to develop new elastic composite materials for condoms containing nano materials like graphene. This composite material will be tailored to enhance the natural sensation during intercourse while using a condom, which is expected to encourage condom use.
Lakshminarayanan Ragupathy from HLL Lifecare Ltd on the other hand will work to improve the safety and enhance the sensitivity of male condoms by incorporating graphene or its derivatives into condom-making materials.
Graphene is a single-layer, crystalline form of carbon that is highly elastic and very strong. It also conducts heat. They will mix graphene with currently used condom materials to produce thinner, heat conducting condoms and incorporate drugs and compounds to further enhance safety as well as sexual experience.
Another interesting project funded on Wednesday was to Benjamin Strutt and a team from Cambridge Design Partnership in the UK who are designing a male condom made from a composite anisotropic material that will provide universal fit and is designed to gently tighten during intercourse, enhancing sensation and reliability.
Mark McGlothlin of Apex Medical Technologies in the US received another $100,000 grant to produce a male condom with enhanced strength and sensitivity using collagen fibrils from cow tendons, which are widely available from meat processing. This would provide a hydrated micro-rough skin-like surface texture that facilitates heat transfer to produce a more natural sensation. They will develop methods to best arrange the fibrils and more safely crosslink them.
The Foundation says male condoms are cheap, easy to manufacture, easy to distribute and available globally. The current rate of global production is 15 billion units/year with an estimated 750 million users and a steadily growing market. When used properly, they reliably protect females from pregnancy and both partners from numerous sexually transmitted infections, including HIV transmission.
A major obstacle to more consistent and universal use of male condoms is the perceived trade-off of decreased pleasure and loss of erection caused by condoms weighed against the protection against unwanted pregnancy and STIs. Many men find this trade-off unacceptable, particularly given that the decisions about condom use must be made just prior to intercourse.
"We are looking for a next generation condom that significantly preserves or enhances pleasure, in order to improve uptake and regular use." The Foundation said.
LONDON: A Chennai-born post-doctoral fellow at the Natural History Museum of Denmark has now turned the archaeological world upside down on the origin of modern day Native Americans.
Results from a DNA study of a young boy's skeletal remains believed to have died 24,000 years old has shed new light on the origins of the first people to colonize America much before Christopher Columbus.
DALLAS: Cardiologists are taking aim at treating and preventing heart disease, the world's No. 1 killer, with a more personalized approach under a new research collaboration that will marry data with the evolving understanding of genetics.
The effort, being billed as Heart Studies v2.0 and which was announced on Sunday, will be a collaboration of the American Heart Association (AHA) along with Boston University and the University of Mississippi, which oversee ongoing landmark population studies, the Framingham Heart Study and the Jackson Heart Study, respectively.
Indian and British scientists on Wednesday received grant of $100,000 each, to use graphene and create the world's next generation condoms that would be thinner, stronger, more elastic and extra pleasurable.
Graphene was first isolated at the University of Manchester in 2004 by Russian scientists Sir Andre Geim and Sir Kostya Novoselov - a feat that earned them the Nobel Prize for Physics in 2010. Ever since, over 7,500 graphene based patents worldwide have been files for its use in creating smartphones to computer chips.
On Wednesday, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation announced that it will fund University of Manchester's National Graphene Institute and India's HLL Lifecare Limited to create the next generaion condom.
Aravind Vijayaraghavan and a team from the University of Manchester proposes to develop new elastic composite materials for condoms containing nano materials like graphene. This composite material will be tailored to enhance the natural sensation during intercourse while using a condom, which is expected to encourage condom use.
Lakshminarayanan Ragupathy from HLL Lifecare Ltd on the other hand will work to improve the safety and enhance the sensitivity of male condoms by incorporating graphene or its derivatives into condom-making materials.
Graphene is a single-layer, crystalline form of carbon that is highly elastic and very strong. It also conducts heat. They will mix graphene with currently used condom materials to produce thinner, heat conducting condoms and incorporate drugs and compounds to further enhance safety as well as sexual experience.
Another interesting project funded on Wednesday was to Benjamin Strutt and a team from Cambridge Design Partnership in the UK who are designing a male condom made from a composite anisotropic material that will provide universal fit and is designed to gently tighten during intercourse, enhancing sensation and reliability.
Mark McGlothlin of Apex Medical Technologies in the US received another $100,000 grant to produce a male condom with enhanced strength and sensitivity using collagen fibrils from cow tendons, which are widely available from meat processing. This would provide a hydrated micro-rough skin-like surface texture that facilitates heat transfer to produce a more natural sensation. They will develop methods to best arrange the fibrils and more safely crosslink them.
The Foundation says male condoms are cheap, easy to manufacture, easy to distribute and available globally. The current rate of global production is 15 billion units/year with an estimated 750 million users and a steadily growing market. When used properly, they reliably protect females from pregnancy and both partners from numerous sexually transmitted infections, including HIV transmission.
A major obstacle to more consistent and universal use of male condoms is the perceived trade-off of decreased pleasure and loss of erection caused by condoms weighed against the protection against unwanted pregnancy and STIs. Many men find this trade-off unacceptable, particularly given that the decisions about condom use must be made just prior to intercourse.
"We are looking for a next generation condom that significantly preserves or enhances pleasure, in order to improve uptake and regular use." The Foundation said.
LONDON: A Chennai-born post-doctoral fellow at the Natural History Museum of Denmark has now turned the archaeological world upside down on the origin of modern day Native Americans.
Results from a DNA study of a young boy's skeletal remains believed to have died 24,000 years old has shed new light on the origins of the first people to colonize America much before Christopher Columbus.
DALLAS: Cardiologists are taking aim at treating and preventing heart disease, the world's No. 1 killer, with a more personalized approach under a new research collaboration that will marry data with the evolving understanding of genetics.
The effort, being billed as Heart Studies v2.0 and which was announced on Sunday, will be a collaboration of the American Heart Association (AHA) along with Boston University and the University of Mississippi, which oversee ongoing landmark population studies, the Framingham Heart Study and the Jackson Heart Study, respectively.
Indian and British scientists on Wednesday received grant of $100,000 each, to use graphene and create the world's next generation condoms that would be thinner, stronger, more elastic and extra pleasurable.
Graphene was first isolated at the University of Manchester in 2004 by Russian scientists Sir Andre Geim and Sir Kostya Novoselov - a feat that earned them the Nobel Prize for Physics in 2010. Ever since, over 7,500 graphene based patents worldwide have been files for its use in creating smartphones to computer chips.
On Wednesday, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation announced that it will fund University of Manchester's National Graphene Institute and India's HLL Lifecare Limited to create the next generaion condom.
Aravind Vijayaraghavan and a team from the University of Manchester proposes to develop new elastic composite materials for condoms containing nano materials like graphene. This composite material will be tailored to enhance the natural sensation during intercourse while using a condom, which is expected to encourage condom use.
Lakshminarayanan Ragupathy from HLL Lifecare Ltd on the other hand will work to improve the safety and enhance the sensitivity of male condoms by incorporating graphene or its derivatives into condom-making materials.
Graphene is a single-layer, crystalline form of carbon that is highly elastic and very strong. It also conducts heat. They will mix graphene with currently used condom materials to produce thinner, heat conducting condoms and incorporate drugs and compounds to further enhance safety as well as sexual experience.
Another interesting project funded on Wednesday was to Benjamin Strutt and a team from Cambridge Design Partnership in the UK who are designing a male condom made from a composite anisotropic material that will provide universal fit and is designed to gently tighten during intercourse, enhancing sensation and reliability.
Mark McGlothlin of Apex Medical Technologies in the US received another $100,000 grant to produce a male condom with enhanced strength and sensitivity using collagen fibrils from cow tendons, which are widely available from meat processing. This would provide a hydrated micro-rough skin-like surface texture that facilitates heat transfer to produce a more natural sensation. They will develop methods to best arrange the fibrils and more safely crosslink them.
The Foundation says male condoms are cheap, easy to manufacture, easy to distribute and available globally. The current rate of global production is 15 billion units/year with an estimated 750 million users and a steadily growing market. When used properly, they reliably protect females from pregnancy and both partners from numerous sexually transmitted infections, including HIV transmission.
A major obstacle to more consistent and universal use of male condoms is the perceived trade-off of decreased pleasure and loss of erection caused by condoms weighed against the protection against unwanted pregnancy and STIs. Many men find this trade-off unacceptable, particularly given that the decisions about condom use must be made just prior to intercourse.
"We are looking for a next generation condom that significantly preserves or enhances pleasure, in order to improve uptake and regular use." The Foundation said.
LONDON: A Chennai-born post-doctoral fellow at the Natural History Museum of Denmark has now turned the archaeological world upside down on the origin of modern day Native Americans.
Results from a DNA study of a young boy's skeletal remains believed to have died 24,000 years old has shed new light on the origins of the first people to colonize America much before Christopher Columbus.
DALLAS: Cardiologists are taking aim at treating and preventing heart disease, the world's No. 1 killer, with a more personalized approach under a new research collaboration that will marry data with the evolving understanding of genetics.
The effort, being billed as Heart Studies v2.0 and which was announced on Sunday, will be a collaboration of the American Heart Association (AHA) along with Boston University and the University of Mississippi, which oversee ongoing landmark population studies, the Framingham Heart Study and the Jackson Heart Study, respectively.
Indian and British scientists on Wednesday received grant of $100,000 each, to use graphene and create the world's next generation condoms that would be thinner, stronger, more elastic and extra pleasurable.
Graphene was first isolated at the University of Manchester in 2004 by Russian scientists Sir Andre Geim and Sir Kostya Novoselov - a feat that earned them the Nobel Prize for Physics in 2010. Ever since, over 7,500 graphene based patents worldwide have been files for its use in creating smartphones to computer chips.
On Wednesday, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation announced that it will fund University of Manchester's National Graphene Institute and India's HLL Lifecare Limited to create the next generaion condom.
Aravind Vijayaraghavan and a team from the University of Manchester proposes to develop new elastic composite materials for condoms containing nano materials like graphene. This composite material will be tailored to enhance the natural sensation during intercourse while using a condom, which is expected to encourage condom use.
Lakshminarayanan Ragupathy from HLL Lifecare Ltd on the other hand will work to improve the safety and enhance the sensitivity of male condoms by incorporating graphene or its derivatives into condom-making materials.
Graphene is a single-layer, crystalline form of carbon that is highly elastic and very strong. It also conducts heat. They will mix graphene with currently used condom materials to produce thinner, heat conducting condoms and incorporate drugs and compounds to further enhance safety as well as sexual experience.
Another interesting project funded on Wednesday was to Benjamin Strutt and a team from Cambridge Design Partnership in the UK who are designing a male condom made from a composite anisotropic material that will provide universal fit and is designed to gently tighten during intercourse, enhancing sensation and reliability.
Mark McGlothlin of Apex Medical Technologies in the US received another $100,000 grant to produce a male condom with enhanced strength and sensitivity using collagen fibrils from cow tendons, which are widely available from meat processing. This would provide a hydrated micro-rough skin-like surface texture that facilitates heat transfer to produce a more natural sensation. They will develop methods to best arrange the fibrils and more safely crosslink them.
The Foundation says male condoms are cheap, easy to manufacture, easy to distribute and available globally. The current rate of global production is 15 billion units/year with an estimated 750 million users and a steadily growing market. When used properly, they reliably protect females from pregnancy and both partners from numerous sexually transmitted infections, including HIV transmission.
A major obstacle to more consistent and universal use of male condoms is the perceived trade-off of decreased pleasure and loss of erection caused by condoms weighed against the protection against unwanted pregnancy and STIs. Many men find this trade-off unacceptable, particularly given that the decisions about condom use must be made just prior to intercourse.
"We are looking for a next generation condom that significantly preserves or enhances pleasure, in order to improve uptake and regular use." The Foundation said.
LONDON: A Chennai-born post-doctoral fellow at the Natural History Museum of Denmark has now turned the archaeological world upside down on the origin of modern day Native Americans.
Results from a DNA study of a young boy's skeletal remains believed to have died 24,000 years old has shed new light on the origins of the first people to colonize America much before Christopher Columbus.
DALLAS: Cardiologists are taking aim at treating and preventing heart disease, the world's No. 1 killer, with a more personalized approach under a new research collaboration that will marry data with the evolving understanding of genetics.
The effort, being billed as Heart Studies v2.0 and which was announced on Sunday, will be a collaboration of the American Heart Association (AHA) along with Boston University and the University of Mississippi, which oversee ongoing landmark population studies, the Framingham Heart Study and the Jackson Heart Study, respectively.
Indian and British scientists on Wednesday received grant of $100,000 each, to use graphene and create the world's next generation condoms that would be thinner, stronger, more elastic and extra pleasurable.
Graphene was first isolated at the University of Manchester in 2004 by Russian scientists Sir Andre Geim and Sir Kostya Novoselov - a feat that earned them the Nobel Prize for Physics in 2010. Ever since, over 7,500 graphene based patents worldwide have been files for its use in creating smartphones to computer chips.
On Wednesday, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation announced that it will fund University of Manchester's National Graphene Institute and India's HLL Lifecare Limited to create the next generaion condom.
Aravind Vijayaraghavan and a team from the University of Manchester proposes to develop new elastic composite materials for condoms containing nano materials like graphene. This composite material will be tailored to enhance the natural sensation during intercourse while using a condom, which is expected to encourage condom use.
Lakshminarayanan Ragupathy from HLL Lifecare Ltd on the other hand will work to improve the safety and enhance the sensitivity of male condoms by incorporating graphene or its derivatives into condom-making materials.
Graphene is a single-layer, crystalline form of carbon that is highly elastic and very strong. It also conducts heat. They will mix graphene with currently used condom materials to produce thinner, heat conducting condoms and incorporate drugs and compounds to further enhance safety as well as sexual experience.
Another interesting project funded on Wednesday was to Benjamin Strutt and a team from Cambridge Design Partnership in the UK who are designing a male condom made from a composite anisotropic material that will provide universal fit and is designed to gently tighten during intercourse, enhancing sensation and reliability.
Mark McGlothlin of Apex Medical Technologies in the US received another $100,000 grant to produce a male condom with enhanced strength and sensitivity using collagen fibrils from cow tendons, which are widely available from meat processing. This would provide a hydrated micro-rough skin-like surface texture that facilitates heat transfer to produce a more natural sensation. They will develop methods to best arrange the fibrils and more safely crosslink them.
The Foundation says male condoms are cheap, easy to manufacture, easy to distribute and available globally. The current rate of global production is 15 billion units/year with an estimated 750 million users and a steadily growing market. When used properly, they reliably protect females from pregnancy and both partners from numerous sexually transmitted infections, including HIV transmission.
A major obstacle to more consistent and universal use of male condoms is the perceived trade-off of decreased pleasure and loss of erection caused by condoms weighed against the protection against unwanted pregnancy and STIs. Many men find this trade-off unacceptable, particularly given that the decisions about condom use must be made just prior to intercourse.
"We are looking for a next generation condom that significantly preserves or enhances pleasure, in order to improve uptake and regular use." The Foundation said.
Results from a DNA study of a young boy's skeletal remains believed to have died 24,000 years old has shed new light on the origins of the first people to colonize America much before Christopher Columbus.
Maanasa Raghavan from the Natural History Museum of Denmark's Centre for Geo Genetics has shown that nearly 30% of modern Native American's ancestry came from this youngster's gene pool, suggesting that the first Americans came directly from Siberia.
Speaking to TOI from Toronto where she now lives with her parents - both of whom are accountants, Maanasa said the study proves that Native Americans ancestors migrated to the Americas from Siberia and not directly from Europe as some have recently suggested.
It is also now clear that the boy had close genetic ties to today's Native Americans and some western Eurasians, specifically some groups living in central Asia, South Asia, and Europe.
The researchers said "We think these Ice-Age people were quite mobile and capable of maintaining a far-reaching gene pool that extended from central Siberia all the way west to central Europe."
Kelly Graf from Texas A&M University "our results indicate Native American ancestors could have been in Beringia - extreme northeastern Russia and Alaska - any time after 24,000 years ago and therefore could have colonized Alaska and the Americas much earlier than 14,500 years ago, the age suggested by the archaeological record".
The team also finds evidence that this genetic affinity between MA-1 and Native Americans is mediated by a gene flow event from MA-1 into the first Americans, which can explain between 14-38% of the ancestry of modern Native Americans, with the remainder of the ancestry being derived from East Asians.
The scientists said "Supported by numerous reasons against these signatures being caused by contamination from modern DNA sources or from post-Columbian admixture (post 1492 AD), the study concludes that two distinct Old World populations led to the formation of the First American gene pool: one related to modern-day East Asians, and the other a Siberian Upper Palaeolithic population related to modern-day western Eurasians".
"The result came as a complete surprise to us. Who would have thought that present-day Native Americans, who we learned in school derive from East Asians, share recent evolutionary history with contemporary western Eurasians? Even more intriguingly, this happened by gene flow from an ancient population that is so far represented only by the MA-1 individual living some 24,000 years ago," says professor Eske Willerslev from the Centre for GeoGenetics who led the study.
Dr Pontus Skoglund from Uppsala University, and one of the lead authors of the study, explains, "Most scientists have believed that Native American lineages go back about 14,000 years ago, when the first people crossed Beringia into the New World. Our results provide direct evidence that some of the ancestry that characterizes Native Americans is at least 10,000 years older than that, and was already present in Siberia before the last Ice Age".
The international team of researchers that Maanasa was part of - researchers from Sweden, Russia, UK, University of Chicago and University of California-Berkeley traveled to the Hermitage State Museum in St Petersburg, Russia, where the remains are now housed to collect samples for ancient DNA.
The skeleton was first discovered in the late 1920s near the village of Malta in south-central Siberia, and since then it has been referred to as "the Malta child" (MA-1 genome) because until this DNA study the biological sex of the skeleton was unknown.
Maanasa who left India at the age of 12 and is now a Canadian citizen says the DNA work performed on the boy is the oldest complete genome of a human sequenced so far.
WASHINGTON: Nasa has released the first-ever natural-colour portrait of Saturn, in which the planet, its seven moons and rings, and Earth, Venus and Mars, all are visible.
The new panoramic mosaic of the majestic Saturn system taken by Nasa's Cassini spacecraft, which shows the view as it would be seen by human eyes, was unveiled at the Newseum in Washington yesterday.
Female cosmetic genital surgery — socalled " designer vagina" operations — are almost always unnecessary, can be harmful, and should not be offered to girls under the age of 18, leading experts have warned.
More and more women, including adolescents , are seeking the procedures because of a "distorted" image of what is normal presented in popular culture, pornography , and private clinic's own advertisements , the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) Ethics Committee said.
DALLAS: Cardiologists are taking aim at treating and preventing heart disease, the world's No. 1 killer, with a more personalized approach under a new research collaboration that will marry data with the evolving understanding of genetics.
The effort, being billed as Heart Studies v2.0 and which was announced on Sunday, will be a collaboration of the American Heart Association (AHA) along with Boston University and the University of Mississippi, which oversee ongoing landmark population studies, the Framingham Heart Study and the Jackson Heart Study, respectively.
Female cosmetic genital surgery — socalled " designer vagina" operations — are almost always unnecessary, can be harmful, and should not be offered to girls under the age of 18, leading experts have warned.
More and more women, including adolescents , are seeking the procedures because of a "distorted" image of what is normal presented in popular culture, pornography , and private clinic's own advertisements , the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) Ethics Committee said.
WASHINGTON: Nasa has released the first-ever natural-colour portrait of Saturn, in which the planet, its seven moons and rings, and Earth, Venus and Mars, all are visible.
The new panoramic mosaic of the majestic Saturn system taken by Nasa's Cassini spacecraft, which shows the view as it would be seen by human eyes, was unveiled at the Newseum in Washington yesterday.
DALLAS: Cardiologists are taking aim at treating and preventing heart disease, the world's No. 1 killer, with a more personalized approach under a new research collaboration that will marry data with the evolving understanding of genetics.
The effort, being billed as Heart Studies v2.0 and which was announced on Sunday, will be a collaboration of the American Heart Association (AHA) along with Boston University and the University of Mississippi, which oversee ongoing landmark population studies, the Framingham Heart Study and the Jackson Heart Study, respectively.
Female cosmetic genital surgery — socalled " designer vagina" operations — are almost always unnecessary, can be harmful, and should not be offered to girls under the age of 18, leading experts have warned.
More and more women, including adolescents , are seeking the procedures because of a "distorted" image of what is normal presented in popular culture, pornography , and private clinic's own advertisements , the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) Ethics Committee said.
WASHINGTON: Nasa has released the first-ever natural-colour portrait of Saturn, in which the planet, its seven moons and rings, and Earth, Venus and Mars, all are visible.
The new panoramic mosaic of the majestic Saturn system taken by Nasa's Cassini spacecraft, which shows the view as it would be seen by human eyes, was unveiled at the Newseum in Washington yesterday.
DALLAS: Cardiologists are taking aim at treating and preventing heart disease, the world's No. 1 killer, with a more personalized approach under a new research collaboration that will marry data with the evolving understanding of genetics.
The effort, being billed as Heart Studies v2.0 and which was announced on Sunday, will be a collaboration of the American Heart Association (AHA) along with Boston University and the University of Mississippi, which oversee ongoing landmark population studies, the Framingham Heart Study and the Jackson Heart Study, respectively.
"The vast participant data base from these important studies, plus additional genetic components, puts us on a path to defining specific risk determinants for certain cardiovascular diseases for every person," said Dr. Joseph Loscalzo, chairman of the AHA Science Oversight Group for the collaboration and chairman of the Department of Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston.
The collaboration hopes to build on the population studies by adding more and more diverse subjects, more genetic analysis and new approaches to gathering data to better understand why treatments work for some people and not others.
It will, for example, take deeper looks into clinical trials to identify precisely which people are likely to benefit from a particular drug or therapy whether the original trial was positive or negative.
Dr. Dan Jones, chancellor of the University of Mississippi and former lead investigator of the Jackson Heart Study, cited an experimental blood pressure medicine that failed to help patients overall in a large clinical trial. Despite the overall failure, five of his patients had dramatically positive responses to the drug.
"The blunt instrument of that trial design wasn't able to determine why," he recalled with obvious frustration.
He said he hoped that Heart Studies v2.0 will be able to determine why some people respond so that appropriate courses of treatment for individual patients could be determined in the future.
"It moves us closer to the day when this leading cause of death can be prevented in more people," he said of the effort announced at the American Heart Association scientific meeting in Dallas.
The Framingham Heart Study began in 1948 with about 5,000 people living in that Massachusetts community west of Boston. It has now followed three generations of Framingham residents and yielded a wealth of information.
The Jackson Heart Study, based in Mississippi and begun in 2000, is the largest heart study ever to focus on African Americans, who tend to be at disproportionate risk of heart disease and stroke.
Asked if a more personalized approach to cardiac care might significantly add to the healthcare cost burden of heart patient treatment, Loscalzo said, "It doesn't necessarily mean you have to use new therapies. It might mean we can use existing therapies smarter."
WASHINGTON: Nasa has released the first-ever natural-colour portrait of Saturn, in which the planet, its seven moons and rings, and Earth, Venus and Mars, all are visible.
The new panoramic mosaic of the majestic Saturn system taken by Nasa's Cassini spacecraft, which shows the view as it would be seen by human eyes, was unveiled at the Newseum in Washington yesterday.
(Asteroids normally have…)
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida: Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have spotted a freakish asteroid with six comet-like tails of dust streaming from its body like spokes on a wheel, scientists said on Thursday.
"We were literally dumbfounded when we saw it," astronomer David Jewitt with the University of California at Los Angeles, said in a statement. "It's hard to believe we're looking at an asteroid."
More and more women, including adolescents , are seeking the procedures because of a "distorted" image of what is normal presented in popular culture, pornography , and private clinic's own advertisements , the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) Ethics Committee said.
The number of labial reductions — the most common procedure — carried out by the NHS has increased five-fold in the past decade, with 2,000 performed in 2010.
But this could be just "the tip of the iceberg" because private clinics do not have to record data, according to joint reports from RCOG and the British Society for Paediatric and Adolescent Gynaecology (BritSPAG). Experts said the procedures should not be offered to under-18 s except in extremely rare circumstances where it was medically necessary, and should not be offered to anyone on the NHS without a clear medical justification.
Clinicians also need to do more to inform women about natural variations in genital appearance, said Dame Suzi Leather, chair of the RCOG Ethics Committee . "Providing patients with a much more accurate range of what is normal will help them make more informed choices," said. "If you are anxious about your genitals and you look things up on the internet you either come across advertisements for cosmetic surgery or you come across pornography. You don't come across information on what normal, healthy vulvas can look like."
There was also a lack of reliable evidence that such procedures have a positive outcome for women who report feeling discomfort when wearing tight clothes or during sex, experts said.
NHS figures do not show the reasons women sought out cosmetic genital surgery , nor what the outcome was. However, BritSPAG said there had been no increase in "incidence of labial pathology" that could account for the increased number of operations. Dame Suzi said she was particularly concerned that girls under 18 were being offered the procedures, as the risks of complications are higher if surgery is performed before full genital development has been completed.
Between 2008 and 2012, 266 labial reductions were performed on girls under 14 in the NHS, according to official statistics. THE INDEPENDENT
WASHINGTON: Nasa has released the first-ever natural-colour portrait of Saturn, in which the planet, its seven moons and rings, and Earth, Venus and Mars, all are visible.
The new panoramic mosaic of the majestic Saturn system taken by Nasa's Cassini spacecraft, which shows the view as it would be seen by human eyes, was unveiled at the Newseum in Washington yesterday.
WASHINGTON: In an unexpected discovery, scientists have spotted a black hole in a collection of stars in the constellation Ophiuchus, about 22,000 light years from Earth.
Last year when astronomers led by a Michigan State University professor discovered two black holes in a collection of stars known as a globular cluster, the team wasn't sure if the black holes' presence was a common occurrence or a unique stroke of luck.
(Asteroids normally have…)
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida: Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have spotted a freakish asteroid with six comet-like tails of dust streaming from its body like spokes on a wheel, scientists said on Thursday.
"We were literally dumbfounded when we saw it," astronomer David Jewitt with the University of California at Los Angeles, said in a statement. "It's hard to believe we're looking at an asteroid."
WASHINGTON: In an unexpected discovery, scientists have spotted a black hole in a collection of stars in the constellation Ophiuchus, about 22,000 light years from Earth.
Last year when astronomers led by a Michigan State University professor discovered two black holes in a collection of stars known as a globular cluster, the team wasn't sure if the black holes' presence was a common occurrence or a unique stroke of luck.
NEW DELHI: A rare hybrid solar eclipse on Sunday, which won't be visible from India, can be viewed online.
"This is the most interesting eclipse of the year because it is the rare hybrid eclipse in which some sections of the path are annular (where the Moon does not completely block out the Sun) while other parts are total," said SPACE, an organization working in the field of science and astronomy.
(Asteroids normally have…)
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida: Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have spotted a freakish asteroid with six comet-like tails of dust streaming from its body like spokes on a wheel, scientists said on Thursday.
"We were literally dumbfounded when we saw it," astronomer David Jewitt with the University of California at Los Angeles, said in a statement. "It's hard to believe we're looking at an asteroid."
NEW DELHI: A rare hybrid solar eclipse on Sunday, which won't be visible from India, can be viewed online.
"This is the most interesting eclipse of the year because it is the rare hybrid eclipse in which some sections of the path are annular (where the Moon does not completely block out the Sun) while other parts are total," said SPACE, an organization working in the field of science and astronomy.
WASHINGTON: In an unexpected discovery, scientists have spotted a black hole in a collection of stars in the constellation Ophiuchus, about 22,000 light years from Earth.
Last year when astronomers led by a Michigan State University professor discovered two black holes in a collection of stars known as a globular cluster, the team wasn't sure if the black holes' presence was a common occurrence or a unique stroke of luck.
(Asteroids normally have…)
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida: Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have spotted a freakish asteroid with six comet-like tails of dust streaming from its body like spokes on a wheel, scientists said on Thursday.
"We were literally dumbfounded when we saw it," astronomer David Jewitt with the University of California at Los Angeles, said in a statement. "It's hard to believe we're looking at an asteroid."
NEW DELHI: A rare hybrid solar eclipse on Sunday, which won't be visible from India, can be viewed online.
"This is the most interesting eclipse of the year because it is the rare hybrid eclipse in which some sections of the path are annular (where the Moon does not completely block out the Sun) while other parts are total," said SPACE, an organization working in the field of science and astronomy.
WASHINGTON: In an unexpected discovery, scientists have spotted a black hole in a collection of stars in the constellation Ophiuchus, about 22,000 light years from Earth.
Last year when astronomers led by a Michigan State University professor discovered two black holes in a collection of stars known as a globular cluster, the team wasn't sure if the black holes' presence was a common occurrence or a unique stroke of luck.
"We were literally dumbfounded when we saw it," astronomer David Jewitt with the University of California at Los Angeles, said in a statement. "It's hard to believe we're looking at an asteroid."
Asteroids normally have no tails.
The asteroid, known as P/2013 P5, first appeared as a fuzzy point of light in a sky survey by the Pan-STARRS 1 telescope in Hawaii in August.
In September astronomers used the sharp-eyed orbiting Hubble telescope to zero in on the object, located in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.
Not only is the asteroid sporting six tails, follow-up observations 13 days later showed it had changed shape.
Scientists suspect pressure from photons, small particles of light or electromagnetic radiation, in sunlight is causing the asteroid to spin faster, disrupting its surface.
Computer models show the dust plumes likely started rising off the asteroid's surface in April 2012, according to Jessica Agarwal, with the Max Planck Institute in Lindau, Germany.
"P/2013 P5 might be losing dust as it rotates at high speed," Agarwal said in a statement. "The sun then drags this dust into the distinct tails we're seeing."
Astronomers intend to keep a lookout for signs the asteroid is breaking up, a process they suspect is common, but never before observed.
"This is just an amazing object to us, and almost certainly the first of many more to come," Jewitt said.
The research appears in this week's issue of the Astrophysical Journal Letters.
WASHINGTON: Researchers have created a material that can be used for the controlled release of a substance when it's subjected to cyclic mechanical loading.
This work offers a potential treatment method for specific tissues like knee cartilage.
In order to regenerate, knee cartilage, paradoxically, needs to be placed under mechanical stress, as happens whenever we take a step and our knees take our weight.
NEW DELHI: A rare hybrid solar eclipse on Sunday, which won't be visible from India, can be viewed online.
"This is the most interesting eclipse of the year because it is the rare hybrid eclipse in which some sections of the path are annular (where the Moon does not completely block out the Sun) while other parts are total," said SPACE, an organization working in the field of science and astronomy.
WASHINGTON: In an unexpected discovery, scientists have spotted a black hole in a collection of stars in the constellation Ophiuchus, about 22,000 light years from Earth.
Last year when astronomers led by a Michigan State University professor discovered two black holes in a collection of stars known as a globular cluster, the team wasn't sure if the black holes' presence was a common occurrence or a unique stroke of luck.
WASHINGTON: Researchers have created a material that can be used for the controlled release of a substance when it's subjected to cyclic mechanical loading.
This work offers a potential treatment method for specific tissues like knee cartilage.
In order to regenerate, knee cartilage, paradoxically, needs to be placed under mechanical stress, as happens whenever we take a step and our knees take our weight.
NEW DELHI: A rare hybrid solar eclipse on Sunday, which won't be visible from India, can be viewed online.
"This is the most interesting eclipse of the year because it is the rare hybrid eclipse in which some sections of the path are annular (where the Moon does not completely block out the Sun) while other parts are total," said SPACE, an organization working in the field of science and astronomy.
Last year when astronomers led by a Michigan State University professor discovered two black holes in a collection of stars known as a globular cluster, the team wasn't sure if the black holes' presence was a common occurrence or a unique stroke of luck.
Researchers have now found evidence of yet another black hole in a globular cluster known as M62.
"This implies that the discovery of the other black hole, in the globular cluster called M22, was not just a fluke," said Laura Chomiuk, team member and MSU assistant professor of physics and astronomy.
"Black holes really may be common in globular clusters," said Chomiuk.
Black holes are stars that have died, collapsed into themselves and now have such a strong gravitational field that not even light can escape from them.
The globular cluster M62 is located in the constellation Ophiuchus, about 22,000 light years from Earth.
Until recently, astronomers had assumed that the black holes did not occur in globular clusters, which are some of the oldest and densest collections of stars in the universe.
Stars are packed together a million times more closely than in the neighbourhood of our Sun.
There are so many stars in such a condensed area that they often interact with one another. Massive black holes would have the most violent encounters, "sling-shotting" each other out of the cluster.
Last year's discovery of a pair of black holes in a cluster was especially surprising, Chomiuk said.
It had been thought that if two black holes dwelled at the centre, they would regularly encounter one another until one shoved the other out.
"I think it's safe to say that we have discovered a whole new hunting ground for black holes," said Chomiuk.
The discovery made by using the National Science Foundation's Karl G Jansky Very Large Array telescope in New Mexico was published in the Astrophysical Journal.
TUTICORIN: Capacity of rockets could increase if a Polar Satellite Launch Station (PSLN) was established in Kanyakumari or Tirunelveli districts of Tamil Nadu, which were close to the Equator, a former ISRO scientist said here on Wednesday.
Talking to reporters here, former ISRO scientist N Sivasubramaniam said, "Now our PSLV is carrying 1.25 tonne to 1.5 tonne capacity. Technically, we can say the capacity of rockets being launched can increase if we establish PSLN somehere in Kulasekarapattinam or in Kanyakumari as these places were close to the Equator. It could carry up to two tonne."
WASHINGTON: Researchers have created a material that can be used for the controlled release of a substance when it's subjected to cyclic mechanical loading.
This work offers a potential treatment method for specific tissues like knee cartilage.
In order to regenerate, knee cartilage, paradoxically, needs to be placed under mechanical stress, as happens whenever we take a step and our knees take our weight.
NEW DELHI: A rare hybrid solar eclipse on Sunday, which won't be visible from India, can be viewed online.
"This is the most interesting eclipse of the year because it is the rare hybrid eclipse in which some sections of the path are annular (where the Moon does not completely block out the Sun) while other parts are total," said SPACE, an organization working in the field of science and astronomy.
WASHINGTON: Researchers have created a material that can be used for the controlled release of a substance when it's subjected to cyclic mechanical loading.
This work offers a potential treatment method for specific tissues like knee cartilage.
In order to regenerate, knee cartilage, paradoxically, needs to be placed under mechanical stress, as happens whenever we take a step and our knees take our weight.
TUTICORIN: Capacity of rockets could increase if a Polar Satellite Launch Station (PSLN) was established in Kanyakumari or Tirunelveli districts of Tamil Nadu, which were close to the Equator, a former ISRO scientist said here on Wednesday.
Talking to reporters here, former ISRO scientist N Sivasubramaniam said, "Now our PSLV is carrying 1.25 tonne to 1.5 tonne capacity. Technically, we can say the capacity of rockets being launched can increase if we establish PSLN somehere in Kulasekarapattinam or in Kanyakumari as these places were close to the Equator. It could carry up to two tonne."
"This is the most interesting eclipse of the year because it is the rare hybrid eclipse in which some sections of the path are annular (where the Moon does not completely block out the Sun) while other parts are total," said SPACE, an organization working in the field of science and astronomy.
One can view the live hybrid solar eclipse simply by clicking on Eclipse Chasers Athenaeum-(ECA) website www.eclipsechasers.in
It would be visible over North Atlantic and equatorial Africa on Sunday.
WASHINGTON: Researchers have created a material that can be used for the controlled release of a substance when it's subjected to cyclic mechanical loading.
This work offers a potential treatment method for specific tissues like knee cartilage.
In order to regenerate, knee cartilage, paradoxically, needs to be placed under mechanical stress, as happens whenever we take a step and our knees take our weight.
TUTICORIN: Capacity of rockets could increase if a Polar Satellite Launch Station (PSLN) was established in Kanyakumari or Tirunelveli districts of Tamil Nadu, which were close to the Equator, a former ISRO scientist said here on Wednesday.
Talking to reporters here, former ISRO scientist N Sivasubramaniam said, "Now our PSLV is carrying 1.25 tonne to 1.5 tonne capacity. Technically, we can say the capacity of rockets being launched can increase if we establish PSLN somehere in Kulasekarapattinam or in Kanyakumari as these places were close to the Equator. It could carry up to two tonne."
TUTICORIN: Capacity of rockets could increase if a Polar Satellite Launch Station (PSLN) was established in Kanyakumari or Tirunelveli districts of Tamil Nadu, which were close to the Equator, a former ISRO scientist said here on Wednesday.
Talking to reporters here, former ISRO scientist N Sivasubramaniam said, "Now our PSLV is carrying 1.25 tonne to 1.5 tonne capacity. Technically, we can say the capacity of rockets being launched can increase if we establish PSLN somehere in Kulasekarapattinam or in Kanyakumari as these places were close to the Equator. It could carry up to two tonne."
WASHINGTON: Researchers have created a material that can be used for the controlled release of a substance when it's subjected to cyclic mechanical loading.
This work offers a potential treatment method for specific tissues like knee cartilage.
In order to regenerate, knee cartilage, paradoxically, needs to be placed under mechanical stress, as happens whenever we take a step and our knees take our weight.
