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Pesticides and the Children IQ

Pesticides, especially organophosphates (OPs), cause the lowness of the IQ of children at seven years old, that is the researches’ results of three recent studies on children exposed to OPs  in the womb have a lower IQ at seven years than those that have not. The three studies were held in University of California Berkeley, the Columbia … Continue reading

Robotic Nano-Spiders Made of DNA Molecules

A group of scientists from Columbia University managed to invent extremely small spider robots measuring about 4nm across. If you wish to compare, these nano robots are about 100,000 times smaller than the diameter of a human hair. It would be interesting to note that the spider robots are made of DNA molecules. They can … Continue reading

Growing Teeth Inside Patient’s Mouth

Usually traditional dental implants require a lot of time to heal and numerous visits to clinicians, which is why Dr. Jeremy Mao, a professor of dental medicine from the Columbia University Medical Center, decided to solve the problem. He managed to come up with a revolutionary technique that would allow implants to be grown inside … Continue reading