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Analysis: Why it’s irrational to risk women’s lives for the sake of the unborn
Peter Singer - The Scotsman - 19 August 2012 Comments
Abortion is a much-discussed issue in developed countries, but not so in countries like the Dominican Republic IN THE Dominican Republic last month, a pregnant teenager suffering from leukaemia...
Jumping Genes a Cause of Cancer?
Ruth Williams - TheScientist - 30 June 2012 Comments
Within the human genome, small DNA elements called retrotransposons have the potential to wreak mutational havoc by copying themselves and reinserting into the genome at multiple locations. Normal...
A Mathematical Challenge to Obesity
CLAUDIA DREIFUS - New York Times - 20 May 2012 15 Comments
FIGHTING OBESITY Carson Chow at a supermarket. Dr. Chow, a mathematician, has found that a food glut is behind America’s weight problem. Carson C. Chow deploys mathematics to solve the everyday...
- - MedicalXpress - 23 April 2012 27 Comments
New research from Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York reveals that repeated exposure to cocaine decreases the activity of a protein necessary for normal functioning of the brain's reward system,...
Neurons Mirror the Diametric Mind
Christopher Badcock, Ph.D - Psychology Today - 22 April 2012 3 Comments
Schizophrenics amplify neuronal mirroring, autistics reduce it One of the most important findings of modern brain research was the discovery of mirror neurons. First observed in monkeys,...
How thinking about death can lead to a good life
- - MedicalXpress - 20 April 2012 11 Comments
Thinking about death can actually be a good thing. An awareness of mortality can improve physical health and help us re-prioritize our goals and values, according to a new analysis of recent...
Brain Controls Paralyzed Muscles
Ed Yong - TheScientist - 20 April 2012 11 Comments
A new system decodes brain signals from the motor cortex of monkeys and translates them into basic arm movements, despite temporary paralysis. Scientists at Northwestern University have developed...
Megan Scudellari - The Scientist - 24 March 2012 25 Comments
Early exposure to microbes shapes the mammalian immune system by subduing inflammatory T cells. Maybe it’s okay to let your toddler lick the swing set and kiss the dog. A new mouse study suggests...
Dr Margaret McCartney - The Independent - 20 March 2012 86 Comments
Renew travel card. Book haircut. Go for screening test. Buy cinema tickets. Meet friends." You may have spotted the odd one out – for this is not a list of things to do at the weekend, but the front...
Hibernating bears' wounds heal without scars
Victoria Gill - BBC Nature - 19 March 2012 13 Comments
Black bears emerge from up to seven months of hibernation in the spring Black bears have a surprising capacity to heal as they hibernate, say researchers in the US. Medical researchers and...
Making memories: How one protein does it
- - MedicalXpress - 08 March 2012 6 Comments
A neuron (red) accumulates messages (green) when treated with BDNF. Credit: Johns Hopkins Medicine Studying tiny bits of genetic material that control protein formation in the brain, Johns...
R-Loops Break Walls Of Gene Silencing
- - MNT - Medical News Today - 06 March 2012 4 Comments
Researchers at the University of California, Davis, have figured out how the human body keeps essential genes switched "on" and silences the vast stretches of genetic repeats and "junk" DNA. ...
Alzheimer's brain plaques 'rapidly cleared' in mice
James Gallagher - BBC Health - 09 February 2012 22 Comments
Destructive plaques found in the brains of Alzheimer's patients have been rapidly cleared by researchers testing a cancer drug on mice. The US study, published in the journal Science, reported...
Gene therapy 'gave me sight back'
Helen Briggs - BBC News - Health - 09 February 2012 16 Comments
Three US citizens who lost their sight in childhood have reported a dramatic improvement in vision after having gene therapy in both eyes. There was some improvement after the genetic fault in...
Ferroelectric switching discovered for first time in soft biological tissue
- - Physorg.com - 31 January 2012 7 Comments
This graphic depicts the electrical response overlaid on the inner aortic wall. Credit: Jiangyu Li, University of Washington The heart's inner workings are mysterious, perhaps even more so with a...
How a Mother's Love Changes a Child's Brain
Joseph Castro - LiveScience - 31 January 2012 21 Comments
Nurturing a child early in life may help him or her develop a larger hippocampus, the brain region important for learning, memory and stress responses, a new study shows. Previous animal...
Skin transformed into brain cells
James Gallagher - BBC News - Health - 31 January 2012 5 Comments
Skin cells have been converted directly into cells which develop into the main components of the brain, by researchers studying mice in California. The experiment, reported in Proceedings of...
Dr. Steve Novella - James Randi Educational Foundation - 28 January 2012 74 Comments
Here's a safety tip from your friendly skeptical doctor - don't wrap yourself in mud and then stay in a sweat lodge for hours. You may or may not remember from your grade school health class that...
Embryonic stem cells appear to restore some vision to legally blind patient
Rob Stein and David Brown - The Washington Post - 25 January 2012 33 Comments
For the first time, an experimental treatment made from human embryonic stem cells has shown evidence of helping someone, partially restoring sight to two people suffering from slowly progressing...
Unsafe abortions rise as contraceptive funding is cut
Andy Coghlan - NewScientist - 19 January 2012 14 Comments
Global abortion rates have stopped falling, ending a period of rapid decline that began in 1995. However, the proportion of abortions that are dangerous continues to rise. Paradoxically, morally...
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