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Emerging Intracellular Electrical Phenomena: Implications for Paradigm Shifts in Biological Chemistry Research

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Summary of the article  The human body depends on electrical charges for many biological processes, including brain activity and nerve impulses. Previously, it was believed that cellular membranes were necessary to create an electrical charge imbalance. However, recent research from Stanford University has shown that a similar electrical imbalance can exist between microdroplets of water and air. Now, researchers from Duke University have discovered that these types of electric fields also exist within and around biological condensates, a type of cellular structure. These structures form compartments inside the cell without needing the physical boundary of a membrane. The researchers discovered that when environmental conditions are right, a previously unknown phenomenon occurs in these biological condensates, which creates a redox reaction that produces tiny amounts of hydrogen peroxide. This discovery could change the way researchers think about biological chemistry and provide a clu
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Air pollution and its health consequences

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Follow @OmEnigma  Air pollution is the changing of the natural features of the atmosphere by any chemical, physical, or biological factor in either the indoor or outdoor environment. These chemical, physical or the biological ingredients responsible for the change in natural quality of air are air pollutants. Common causes of air pollutants include smoke from motor vehicles, industrial operations, household combustion appliances, and forest fires. Particulate matter, carbon monoxide, ozone, nitrogen dioxide, and sulfur dioxide are pollutants of great public health concern. Indoor and outdoor air pollution are significant contributors to morbidity and mortality because they cause respiratory and other illnesses. Multiple and situation-specific sources contribute to air pollution. Residential energy use for heating and cooking, transportation, power production, agriculture/waste incineration, and industry are the main causes of outdoor pollution. Key sources of ambient air pollution ca
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Back pain and good body posture

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LONELINESS:- Causes, Health consequences and best cure

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Follow @OmEnigma    What is loneliness? Loneliness is most often defined as the condition of being alone, but rather than being alone or being in solitidute, it is a mental state, the state in which you want to make contact but end up feeling alone no matter you make contacts or not. People who are lonely experience empty, lonely, and unwelcome feelings. People who are lonely frequently want for human interaction, yet their mental state makes making friends more challenging. Sometimes people feels lonely even when they are in the large crowd of people and sometimes they even don't need anyone with them not to be lonely. So being or not being with someone don't makes people feel lonely. Actually it is  the state of mind in which one part of mind want to be in isolation and other part want to stay connected with people and the person ends up staying isolated that is becomes lonely . People who are lonely experience empty, alone, and unwanted. People who are lonely frequently w
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Banned "BUTTERFLY MINES" being used in Russia Ukraine war

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Follow @OmEnigma Major highlights of the article   ---> UK defense intelligence suggests that Russia is deploying Butterfly mines over Donetsk and Kramatorsk region of Ukraine --> children are the prime targets due to the toys like look of the mines but similar threat for local population and humanitarians  --> Devastating effects in soviet Afgan war during Afgan Mujqhideen movement. - -> Banned by international convention on landmines  According to the UK Ministry of Defence Intelligence Update, Russia is to blame for the strikes "Russia most certainly tried to use PFM-1 and PFM-1S scatterable anti-personnel mines in Donetsk and Kramatorsk. The PFM-1 line of weapons, also known as "butterfly mines," are highly contentious, indiscriminate weapons." They continue, "They purportedly wounded a large number of youngsters who mistaken them for toys during the Soviet-Afghan War." What are butterfly mines ? Anti-personnel landmines with the design
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