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Gorillas harbour AIDS-like virus, says study Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS November 08, 2006 \| User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 15 vote(s) \| No comments yet Gorillas appear to be widely infected by a close relation to the AIDS virus, according to a study that appears on Thursday in the British journal Nature.

Teenager moves video icons just by imagination Medicine & Health / Research October 10, 2006 \| User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 40 vote(s) \| No comments yet Now, a St. Louis-area teenage boy and a computer game have gone hands-off, thanks to a unique experiment conducted by a team of neurosurgeons, neurologists, and engineers at Washington University in St. Louis.

Part Of Human Brain Functions Like A Digital Computer, Professor Says Medicine & Health / Psychology October 05, 2006 \| User rating: 4 / 5 after 53 vote(s) \| No comments yet A region of the human brain that scientists believe is critical to human intellectual abilities surprisingly functions much like a digital computer, according to psychology Professor Randall O'Reilly of the University of ...

Nobel Prize for Medicine: Silence is golden for US laureates (Update 3) Medicine & Health / Research October 02, 2006 \| User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 14 vote(s) \| No comments yet Two US scientists, Andrew Fire and Craig Mello, on Monday won the Nobel Medicine Prize for discovering how to silence malfunctioning genes, a breakthrough which could lead to an era of new therapies to reverse ...

Anticipation Plays a Powerful Role in Human Memory Medicine & Health September 05, 2006 \| User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 24 vote(s) \| No comments yet Psychologists have long known that memories of disturbing emotional events - such as an act of violence or the unexpected death of a loved one - are more vivid and deeply imprinted in the brain than mundane recollections ...

Brain's Filing System Uncovered Medicine & Health August 28, 2006 \| User rating: 4 / 5 after 54 vote(s) \| No comments yet Socks in the sock drawer, shirts in the shirt drawer, the time-honored lessons of helping organize one’s clothes learned in youth. But what parts of the brain are used to encode such categories as socks, shirts, ...

Infants, as Early as 6 Months, Do See Errors in Arithmetic Medicine & Health August 07, 2006 \| User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 15 vote(s) \| No comments yet Using advanced brain sensor technology developed at the University of Oregon, researchers have confirmed often-debated findings from 1992 that showed infants as young as six months know when an arithmetic solution is wrong.

Researchers show how the brain turns on innate behavior Medicine & Health July 28, 2006 \| User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 12 vote(s) \| No comments yet UCR researchers have made a major leap forward in understanding how the brain programs innate behavior. The discovery could have future applications in engineering new behaviors in animals and intelligent robots.

Scientists discover evolutionary origin of fins, limbs Medicine & Health July 27, 2006 \| User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 18 vote(s) \| No comments yet Performance on the dance floor may not always show it, but people are rarely born with two left feet. We have genes that instruct our arms and legs to grow in the right places and point in the right directions. They also ...

How Much the Eye Tells the Brain Medicine & Health July 26, 2006 \| User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 37 vote(s) \| No comments yet Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine estimate that the human retina can transmit visual input at about the same rate as an Ethernet connection, one of the most common local area ...

Don’t Talk to a Friend While Reading This; Multi-Tasking Adversely Affects the Brain’s Learning Systems Medicine & Health July 26, 2006 \| User rating: 3.5 / 5 after 30 vote(s) \| No comments yet Multi-tasking affects the brain's learning systems, and as a result, we do not learn as well when we are distracted, UCLA psychologists report this week in the online edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Bubbles go high-tech to fight tumors Medicine & Health July 20, 2006 \| User rating: 3.6 / 5 after 7 vote(s) \| No comments yet Bubbles: You've bathed in them, popped them, endured bad song lyrics about them. Now, University of Michigan researchers hope to add a more sophisticated application to the list---gas bubbles used like corks ...

Virtual reality puts telepathy to the test Medicine & Health July 17, 2006 \| User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 29 vote(s) \| No comments yet Scientists at The University of Manchester have created a virtual computer world designed to test telepathic ability. The system, which immerses an individual in what looks like a life-size computer game, has been created ...

Hope I Die Before I Get Old? Medicine & Health June 13, 2006 \| User rating: 3.6 / 5 after 15 vote(s) \| No comments yet Back when he was 20 years old in 1965, rock star Pete Townshend wrote the line "I hope I die before I get old" into a song, "My Generation" that launched his band, the Who, onto the rock 'n' roll scene. But a unique new study ...

Researchers produce images of AIDS virus that may shape vaccine Medicine & Health May 29, 2006 \| User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 41 vote(s) \| No comments yet As the world marks the 25th year since the first diagnosed case of AIDS, groundbreaking research by scientists at Florida State University has produced remarkable three-dimensional images of the virus and the ...

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Gorillas harbour AIDS-like virus, says study Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS November 08, 2006 \| User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 15 vote(s) \| No comments yet Gorillas appear to be widely infected by a close relation to the AIDS virus, according to a study that appears on Thursday in the British journal Nature.

Teenager moves video icons just by imagination Medicine & Health / Research October 10, 2006 \| User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 40 vote(s) \| No comments yet Now, a St. Louis-area teenage boy and a computer game have gone hands-off, thanks to a unique experiment conducted by a team of neurosurgeons, neurologists, and engineers at Washington University in St. Louis.

Part Of Human Brain Functions Like A Digital Computer, Professor Says Medicine & Health / Psychology October 05, 2006 \| User rating: 4 / 5 after 53 vote(s) \| No comments yet A region of the human brain that scientists believe is critical to human intellectual abilities surprisingly functions much like a digital computer, according to psychology Professor Randall O'Reilly of the University of ...

Nobel Prize for Medicine: Silence is golden for US laureates (Update 3) Medicine & Health / Research October 02, 2006 \| User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 14 vote(s) \| No comments yet Two US scientists, Andrew Fire and Craig Mello, on Monday won the Nobel Medicine Prize for discovering how to silence malfunctioning genes, a breakthrough which could lead to an era of new therapies to reverse ...

Anticipation Plays a Powerful Role in Human Memory Medicine & Health September 05, 2006 \| User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 24 vote(s) \| No comments yet Psychologists have long known that memories of disturbing emotional events - such as an act of violence or the unexpected death of a loved one - are more vivid and deeply imprinted in the brain than mundane recollections ...

Brain's Filing System Uncovered Medicine & Health August 28, 2006 \| User rating: 4 / 5 after 54 vote(s) \| No comments yet Socks in the sock drawer, shirts in the shirt drawer, the time-honored lessons of helping organize one’s clothes learned in youth. But what parts of the brain are used to encode such categories as socks, shirts, ...

Infants, as Early as 6 Months, Do See Errors in Arithmetic Medicine & Health August 07, 2006 \| User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 15 vote(s) \| No comments yet Using advanced brain sensor technology developed at the University of Oregon, researchers have confirmed often-debated findings from 1992 that showed infants as young as six months know when an arithmetic solution is wrong.

Researchers show how the brain turns on innate behavior Medicine & Health July 28, 2006 \| User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 12 vote(s) \| No comments yet UCR researchers have made a major leap forward in understanding how the brain programs innate behavior. The discovery could have future applications in engineering new behaviors in animals and intelligent robots.

Scientists discover evolutionary origin of fins, limbs Medicine & Health July 27, 2006 \| User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 18 vote(s) \| No comments yet Performance on the dance floor may not always show it, but people are rarely born with two left feet. We have genes that instruct our arms and legs to grow in the right places and point in the right directions. They also ...

How Much the Eye Tells the Brain Medicine & Health July 26, 2006 \| User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 37 vote(s) \| No comments yet Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine estimate that the human retina can transmit visual input at about the same rate as an Ethernet connection, one of the most common local area ...

Don’t Talk to a Friend While Reading This; Multi-Tasking Adversely Affects the Brain’s Learning Systems Medicine & Health July 26, 2006 \| User rating: 3.5 / 5 after 30 vote(s) \| No comments yet Multi-tasking affects the brain's learning systems, and as a result, we do not learn as well when we are distracted, UCLA psychologists report this week in the online edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Bubbles go high-tech to fight tumors Medicine & Health July 20, 2006 \| User rating: 3.6 / 5 after 7 vote(s) \| No comments yet Bubbles: You've bathed in them, popped them, endured bad song lyrics about them. Now, University of Michigan researchers hope to add a more sophisticated application to the list---gas bubbles used like corks ...

Virtual reality puts telepathy to the test Medicine & Health July 17, 2006 \| User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 29 vote(s) \| No comments yet Scientists at The University of Manchester have created a virtual computer world designed to test telepathic ability. The system, which immerses an individual in what looks like a life-size computer game, has been created ...

Hope I Die Before I Get Old? Medicine & Health June 13, 2006 \| User rating: 3.6 / 5 after 15 vote(s) \| No comments yet Back when he was 20 years old in 1965, rock star Pete Townshend wrote the line "I hope I die before I get old" into a song, "My Generation" that launched his band, the Who, onto the rock 'n' roll scene. But a unique new study ...

Researchers produce images of AIDS virus that may shape vaccine Medicine & Health May 29, 2006 \| User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 41 vote(s) \| No comments yet As the world marks the 25th year since the first diagnosed case of AIDS, groundbreaking research by scientists at Florida State University has produced remarkable three-dimensional images of the virus and the ...

Gorillas harbour AIDS-like virus, says study

Teenager moves video icons just by imagination

Part Of Human Brain Functions Like A Digital Computer, Professor Says

Nobel Prize for Medicine: Silence is golden for US laureates (Update 3)

Anticipation Plays a Powerful Role in Human Memory

Brain's Filing System Uncovered

Infants, as Early as 6 Months, Do See Errors in Arithmetic

Researchers show how the brain turns on innate behavior

Scientists discover evolutionary origin of fins, limbs

How Much the Eye Tells the Brain

Don’t Talk to a Friend While Reading This; Multi-Tasking Adversely Affects the Brain’s Learning Systems

Bubbles go high-tech to fight tumors

Virtual reality puts telepathy to the test

Hope I Die Before I Get Old?

Researchers produce images of AIDS virus that may shape vaccine

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