Stem cell research in India too?

This is good news… I guess!

Bangalore: Cryo-Save Group, an adult stem cell banking company, launched Cryo-Save India in Bangalore on Wednesday. The subsidiary in

India has an automated stem cell banking facility and offers a dual storage system. The facility will enable automatic processing to avoid manual intervention and contamination. It will collect and store adult stem cells derived from cord blood.

The facility can store 1,50,000 samples. According to MD of Cryo-Save India, V R Chandramouli, India has a good market for advanced stem cell banking services. "There is an immense market potential for adult stem cell or family banking here," he confirmed.

The facility was set up with an investment of 1.8 million euros. Cryo-Save Group will scale up its investment to 2 million euros after a year, depending on the response in India.
"Stem cells are natural repair kits of the human body

In the last 18 years, more than 10,000 patients have been treated with cord blood stem cell transplantations in over 150 countries," Chandramouli said. "Currently, stem cell research is being done for more than 85 diseases."
Cryo-Save’s services are available in 37 countries.

[ source: TOI ]

The ‘Naked Women’ effect

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Naked women make men blind to high prices

Brussels: Advertisers have known this all along, but now it is scientifically proven: men who are exposed to naked women stop paying attention to prices.

According to a report Tuesday by Flemish broadcaster VRT, a study by the University of Leuven found an inverse relationship between testosterone levels and price awareness among males.

 

The “naked women” effect is particularly strong among machos, the study found.

 

“Machos usually tend to be tough negotiators, but advertisements featuring naked women turn them into gullible sheep,” said Siegfried Dewitte, a professor of economics who carried out the study.

 

The study also found a similar effect on women exposed to scantily-clad men. However, it also found that women generally tend to be more sensitive to the touch, rather than to such visual stimuli.

[ Source: IBN Live ]

Your time is in your hands

So… the time is in our hands…. or rather…. your brain… This kind of explains why the world stops moving when I am tense!!!