image credit ## Health  In its holistic approach health is defined as a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being. The spiritual perspective is regarded as important as others. So far so much efforts and importance are being given on physical aspects of health. Mental perspective is rarely explored and till late the spiritual soundness is applied to religion only. It is high time we give a balanced importance to physical, mental and spiritual aspects of healthy habits.     image credit ## Yoga  From time immemorial people regard physical exercise as one of the most important way to retain health and fitness. Yoga is a form of exercise that looks after the mental and spiritual health of the person also. Other forms of exercise like aerobics are concerned with the physical wellbeing only. Yoga is believed to elevate the life force - *Kundalini* at the base of the spine. image credit Yoga has –  * Physical Aspects – Consists...

image credit A big step for mankind -  South Africa is participating in  HIV  (Human Immunodeficiency Virus) vaccine program. This vaccine could prevent HIV infection. The drug trial began last month. This program is called  HVTN 702 . About 5400 adults are participating in this  HIV  vaccine trial. Scientists say that this  HIV  vaccine program is the largest and most advanced trial program in South Africa.   “If deployed alongside our current armoury of proven HIV prevention tools, a safe and effective vaccine could be the final nail in the coffin for HIV,” said Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), which falls under the American National Institutes of Health (NIH), a co-funder of the trial.   “Even a moderately effective vaccine would significantly decrease the burden of HIV disease over time in countries and populations with high rates of HIV infection, suc...

image credit Recently scientists show a big hope to get rid of HIV permanently through DNA modification. It now shows up researchers have effectively wiped out the HIV DNA in live mice by utilizing a technique known as Gene Editing. This technique is called as "CRISPR gene-editing technology ". The CRISPR  gene-editing technology allowed scientists to “cut out the bad genes and let the rest be”.  This initial experiment seemed to have been generally effective, in spite of the fact that it is still excessively ahead of schedule to finish up this as a working solution.  Scientists at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University  (LKSOM) and the University of Pittsburgh already proved that they can excise HIV DNA from the genomes of living animals to eliminate further infection permanently. To be more exact, the reality this technique works fine on a living animal is a noteworthy achievement. However,  scientists performed the feat in three diffe...

What I learnt Today : South Africa is participating in largest & most advanced HIV vaccine trial program; makes its own history A big step for mankind -  South Africa is participating in  HIV  (Human Immunodeficiency Virus) vaccine program. This vaccine could prevent HIV infection. The drug trial began last month. This program is called  HVTN 702 . About 5400 adults are participating in this  HIV  vaccine trial. Scientists say that this  HIV  vaccine program is the largest and most advanced trial program in South Africa. “If deployed alongside our current armoury of proven HIV prevention tools, a safe and effective vaccine could be the final nail in the coffin for HIV,” said Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), which falls under the American National Institutes of Health (NIH), a co-funder of the trial. . “Even a moderately effective vaccine would significantly decrease ...

Hi, I think .... to share multiple news at a time is much easier to post multiple times ... how is this the idea ? discuss on it in comment box--- Hello, guys today here I share today’s top science news – (December 02, 2016) Stellar ‘Circle of Life’ Captured in New NASA Photo image credit The life cycle of stars comes full circle in a new photo taken by NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and the Smithsonian’s Submillimeter Array (SMA), which may reveal new clues for studying star evolution. Read the full story on  livescience.com >> Book Excerpt: ‘Are Numbers Real?’ (US 2016) image credit In “Are Numbers Real?,” author Brian Clegg explores the way that math has become more and more detached from reality, and yet despite this is driving the development of modern physics. Read the full story on  livescience.com >> Gut microbes may play a role in Parkinson’s disease image credit Many people with Parkinson’s...

AMAZING - “Color Binoculars”, an app of Microsoft helps colourblind people to see the world in its true colours There are about 8% people of total population in the world are colourblinds. And there is currently no treatment for colourblindness. To help these helpless people Microsoft took a great step by developing a new app called “ Color Binoculars “.  Tom Overton , an engineer at Microsoft Inc has developed this useful app. He is also a colourblind. How does Color Binoculars work ? The application “Color Binoculars” utilizes the cell phone’s camera to adjust colours appropriately so that the frame could show up clearer to colourblind people. There are three modes in this app to eliminate three major types of colourblindness - red/green, blue/yellow and green/red. The application additionally has an option to cripple colour correction in order to view the difference and contrast between the images. This would give the individual a thought regarding how a non-co...

Two clinicians have devised a new system to prevent clinical trial documents being secretly altered to make new drugs look more effective than they are by using a similar system as the digital currency of bitcoin.Reporting in  F1000Research , the doctors said that “undeclared changes to protocols is a major issue in clinical research.”This is because if initial analyses show a medication to be ineffective, researchers can continue to analyse new health outcomes until a positive result is found. But if only the positive findings are reported, the medication might be mistakenly approved.Despite an international mandate requiring all trials to be registered before the experiments begin, the problem still persists, as universal enforcement is difficult. Lobby groups, such as the U.K.-based AllTrials, are now trying to open up the availability of data, but major gaps still remain.So the doctors turned to bitcoin--a type of digital currency in which encryption techniques are used to ...