Author: DB

  • Traduce

    Traduce
    Meaning: speak badly of or tell lies about (someone) so as to damage their reputation.

  • Exercise and DNA Methylation Changes

    How is this for amazing, that exercise or lack thereof could be the catalyst for many diseases in the children born of those who exercise, or don’t.

    From this PubMed article

    Aim: DNA methylation programs gene expression and is involved in numerous biological processes. Accumulating evidence supports transgenerational inheritance of DNA methylation changes in mammals via germ cells.

    Results: Global and genome-wide sperm DNA methylation was altered after 3 months of exercise training. DNA methylation changes occurred in genes related to numerous diseases such as schizophrenia and Parkinson’s disease.

  • Enrol

    Enrol is the standard spelling in British English, which breaks the general rule that British words carry with them an extra consonant. In many cases, such as traveling-travelling, canceled-cancelled, totaled-totalled, labeled-labelled, etc., it is the British spelling that contains the two –ll’s.

    But, in the case of enrolment, the standard spelling in British English only has one l – enrol and yet in past tense it is – enrolled.

    in American English the word has two ll’s – enroll and enrolled.

    The origin of the word

    The word enroll originated from late Middle English (formerly also as inroll ): from Old French enroller, from en- ‘in’ + rolle ‘a roll’ (names being originally written on a roll of parchment).

  • Breast Milk Pump

    We were talking about feeding babies, and when the practise of using a pump to express milk originated.

    The first patent for a breast pump was filed in 1854 by Orwell Needham in New York. The pump was made of a rubber cup connected to a glass pipe in which there was a hole. A mother would control the vacuum effect with her finger. A flexible tube connected the glass pipe back to a bellows fitted in a box.

    The goal was to mimic the sensation of a nursing baby.

  • Puppet

    Atropos is cutting the threads
    Sandie Shaw is a puppet on a string
    And still
    That still small voice that whispers
    You should know that
    Seek and ye shall find,
    is a warning?

  • Gallstones

    Gallstones are dried and compacted lumps of bile that form in the gallbladder when bile builds up. Gallstones can be as small as a grain of sand or the size of a golf ball. They do not cause symptoms in most people.