 Self-Paced Brain-Computer Interface Gets Closer to Reality January 15, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 43 vote(s)
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Using the human mind to control computers could lead to a wide range of applications, such as giving people with limited motion the ability to operate machines. However, translating thoughts into actions is ... | |
 Quality of Sleep Determines Where the Brain Stores Memories December 13, 2007 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 82 vote(s)
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As time passes, our memories are transferred to different parts of the brain in order to ideally store our past experiences. While scientists have known that sleep plays an important role in helping consolidate ... | |
 Neurons created from skin cells of elderly ALS patients July 31, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 8 vote(s)
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Less than 27 months after announcing that he had institutional permission to attempt the creation of patient and disease-specific stem cell lines, Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI) Principal Faculty member ... | |
Radiation for health June 19, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 33 vote(s)
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Could exposure to low doses of radiation cure our ills?
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 Working memory has limited 'slots' April 03, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 51 vote(s)
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A new study by researchers at UC Davis shows how our very short-term "working memory," which allows the brain to stitch together sensory information, operates. The system retains a limited number of high-resolution ... | |
Study shows that a larger abdomen in midlife increases risk of dementia March 26, 2008 | User rating: 4 / 5 after 10 vote(s)
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People in their 40s with larger stomachs have a higher risk for dementia when they reach their 70s, according to a study published in the March 26, 2008, online issue of Neurology®, the medical journal of the American ... | |
Physician revolutionizes gene research March 26, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 27 vote(s)
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A dramatic new study published in the most recent issue of Nature questions some of the mechanisms underlying a new class of drugs based on Nobel Prize-winning work designed to fight diseases ranging from macular degeneration ... | |
 First look: Princeton researchers peek into deepest recesses of human brain February 27, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 28 vote(s)
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A team of scientists from Princeton University has devised a new experimental technique that produces some of the best functional images ever taken of the human brainstem, the most primitive area of the brain. | |
Researchers create beating heart in laboratory January 13, 2008 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 78 vote(s)
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University of Minnesota researchers have created a beating heart in the laboratory. By using a process called whole organ decellularization, scientists from the University of Minnesota Center for Cardiovascular Repair grew ... | |
Researchers discover human embryonic stem cells are the ultimate perpetual fuel cell July 11, 2007 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 52 vote(s)
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A startling discovery on the development of human embryonic stem cells by scientists at McMaster University will change how future research in the area is done. | |
Moral judgment fails without feelings March 21, 2007 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 51 vote(s)
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Consider the following scenario: someone you know has AIDS and plans to infect others, some of whom will die. Your only options are to let it happen or to kill the person. Do you pull the trigger? | |
Male sweat boosts women's hormone levels February 07, 2007 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 48 vote(s)
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Just a few whiffs of a chemical found in male sweat is enough to raise levels of the stress hormone cortisol in heterosexual women, according to a new study by University of California, Berkeley, scientists. | |
 Conceptualizing a cyborg January 18, 2007 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 18 vote(s)
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Investigators at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine describe the basis for developing a biological interface that could link a patient's nervous system to a thought-driven artificial limb. Their ... | |
Alzheimer's gene identified: study January 14, 2007 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 18 vote(s)
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An international effort led by scientists at the University of Toronto, Columbia University and Boston University has isolated another gene responsible for Alzheimer's disease. | |
Scientists discover stage at which an embryonic cell is fated to become a stem cell January 10, 2007 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 13 vote(s)
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Cambridge scientists have discovered the stage at which some of the cells of a fertilised mammalian egg are fated to develop into stem cells and why this occurs. The findings of the study, which overturn the long-held belief ... | |
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