Oct 22, 2009

PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news (PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the University of Toronto have developed a novel cell injection test-bed to evaluate the barriers to transplanted cell integration with cardiac tissue. The results provide insights into the barriers that should be considered during heart cell transplantation studies. (Read More)

Oct 25, 2009

PhysOrg.com: Medicine & Health news An international team of researchers led by geneticist Jonathan Sebat, Ph.D., of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL), has identified a mutation on human chromosome 16 that substantially increases risk for schizophrenia. (Read More)

Oct 20, 2009

ScienceDaily: Mind & Brain News Scientists have found that middle-aged and older adults with little Internet experience were able to trigger key centers in the brain that control decision-making and complex reasoning after just one week of surfing the Web. The findings suggest that Internet training can stimulate neural activation patterns and could poten (Read More)

Oct 14, 2009

PhysOrg.com: Medicine & Health news The clinical course of advanced dementia, including uncomfortable symptoms such as pain and high mortality, is similar to that experienced by patients of other terminal conditions, according to scientists at the Institute for Aging Research of Hebrew SeniorLife, an affiliate of Harvard Medical School. (Read More)

Oct 15, 2009

ScienceDaily: Health & Medicine News Researchers are voicing alarm that drugs to treat a wide variety of allergies, asthma and autoimmune diseases now in human clinical trials may errantly spur development of breast tumors. (Read More)

Oct 13, 2009

Stem Cell Research News From Medical News Today In a groundbreaking tissue engineering procedure, doctors in the US used the patient's own stem cells to help a 14-year old boy with a rare rare genetic condition that left him with underdeveloped and partly missing cheekbones grow new facial bone. (Read More)

Oct 12, 2009

PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news (PhysOrg.com) -- In a first-of-its kind procedure, physicians have used stem cells taken from the fat tissue of a 14-year-old boy and combined them with growth protein and donor tissue to grow viable cheek bones in the teen. (Read More)

Oct 07, 2009

Submitted by Sina: Recent studies are changing the way science looks at the sense of taste in a number of significant ways. For over a generation, school children have been taught that the tongue could distinguish four tastes: salty, sweet, bitter and sour. Recently, a new taste has been added, the flavor-enhancing taste associated with MSG, (Read More)

Oct 06, 2009

Clinical Trials / Drug Trials News From Medical News Today New research integrates sophisticated interdisciplinary approaches to solve a molecular mystery that may lead to alternative therapeutic strategies for acute myeloid leukemia (AML). The study, published by Cell Press in the October issue of the journal Cancer Cell, identifies a previously unrecognized AML target that respon (Read More)

Oct 03, 2009

Clinical Cases and Images - Blog Example: Somebody mentions a blog post title and link (not authored by them) on Twitter:@hrouda The Point You’re Missing About Google Wave http://ow.ly/sw8XIt gets repeated:@laikas: The Point You’re Missing About Google Wave http://ow.ly/sw8X - via @hroudaAnd again:@EdBennett The Point You’re Missing About Google Wave - a p (Read More)

Oct 05, 2009

New Scientist - Cancer Prize goes to discoverers of telomere caps and telomerase – the enzyme that makes them. (Read More)

Oct 05, 2009

ScienceDaily: Earth & Climate News The study, conducted by researchers at the University of Calgary, University of Toronto and Health Canada, looked at 5191 adults admitted to hospital in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Fifty-two per cent of admissions occurred between April and September, the warmest months of the year in Canada during which people are more likel (Read More)

Oct 05, 2009

Submitted by Sina: Comcast is in talks about creating a joint venture that would combine its entertainment assets with the video website's parent, NBC Universal. A deal could end free viewing of some TV shows.Since Hulu launched early last year, its popularity has quadrupled as millions of people turn to the free online video site to watch ep (Read More)

Oct 03, 2009

DailyStuff from HowStuffWorks.com Everybody knows now that smoking is bad for you. But that wasn't always the case. In the 1940s, '50s and '60s, Americans smoked with reckless abandon -- in their offices, in department stores, on elevators, planes and buses. In 1965, nearly half of all Americans smoked. The World Health Organization officially took a stance (Read More)

Oct 01, 2009

Submitted by Sina: Nitric Oxide, recently featured and recommended on TV and in the mainstream media, is a natural chemical compound which has been found to increase blood flow and improve muscular fullness through vasodilation and oxygen delivery. It may even promote special protection of the heart, says Dr. Louis Ignarro, 1998 Nobel Prize W (Read More)

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