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Researchers find brain cell transplants help repair neural damage

Medicine & Health / Research

created Oct 29, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A Swiss research team has found that using an animal's own brain cells (autologous transplant) to replace degenerated neurons in select brain areas of donor primates with simulated but asymptomatic Parkinson's disease and ...





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Atomic-level Snapshot Catches Protein Motor in Action (w/ Video)

Atomic-level Snapshot Catches Protein Motor in Action (w/ Video)

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Nov 20, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- The atomic-level action of a remarkable class of ring-shaped protein motors has been uncovered by researchers with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory using a state-of-the-art protein ...


Computer Based on Insights From The Brain Moves Closer to Reality

Computer Based on Insights From The Brain Moves Closer to Reality

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Nov 18, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (24) | comments 4

(PhysOrg.com) -- Today at SC 09, the supercomputing conference, IBM announced significant progress toward creating a computer system that simulates and emulates the brain's abilities for sensation, perception, ...


Modernization Affects Children's Cognitive Development

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Nov 17, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (6) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Childhood is changing rapidly around the world, and the forces of modernization have a significant impact on shaping the intellectual development of children, researchers at the University of California, ...


Students with a lower socioeconomic background benefit from daily school physical activity

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created Nov 17, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

German school students -- especially those with low socioeconomic status (SES) -- significantly improved their exercise capacity and body leanness after a year of daily physical activity classes, according to research presented ...


Eco-Friendly SUV Gets a Hydrogen Mileage Boost

Eco-Friendly SUV Gets a Hydrogen Mileage Boost (w/ Video)

Technology / Energy

created Nov 17, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- Driving hydrogen fueled SUVs for 431 miles per fill-up is no longer a California dream. Researchers from NREL and Toyota recently completed a 331 mile round trip drive between Torrance and ...


Monetary gain and high-risk tactics stimulate activity in the brain

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Nov 17, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Monetary gain stimulates activity in the brain. Even the mere possibility of receiving a reward is known to activate an area of the brain called the striatum. A team of Japanese researchers report in the January 2010 issue ...


Cross-country runabouts -- immune cells on the move

Cross-country runabouts -- immune cells on the move

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Nov 17, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- In order to effectively fight pathogens, even at remote areas of the human body, immune cells have to move quickly and in a flexible manner.


Are teenagers wired differently than adults?

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Nov 17, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Parents have long suspected that the brains of their teenagers function differently than those of adults. With the advent of magnetic resonance imaging, or MRI, we have begun to appreciate how the brain continues to develop ...


First near-total face and upper-jaw transplant appears successful

Medicine & Health / Other

created Nov 16, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

More than a year and a half following the first near-total face and upper jaw transplant, the donor tissue appears successfully integrated, according to a report in the November/December issue of Archives of Facial Plastic Su ...


Researchers create compound that boosts anti-inflammatory fat levels

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created Nov 16, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1

UC Irvine pharmacology researchers have discovered a way to boost levels of a natural body fat that helps decrease inflammation, pointing to possible new treatments for allergies, illnesses and injuries related to the immune ...



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