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Evidence builds that meditation strengthens the brain
ScienceDaily (Mar. 14, 2012) Earlier evidence out of UCLA suggested that meditating for years thickens the brain (in a good way) and strengthens the connections between brain cells.
Study shows brain flexibility, gives hope for natural-feeling neuroprosthetics
ScienceDaily (Mar. 4, 2012) Opening the door to the development of thought-controlled prosthetic devices to help people with spinal cord injuries, amputations and other impairments, neuroscientists at the University of California, Berkeley, and the Champalimaud Center for the Unknown in Portugal have demonstrated that the brain is more flexible and trainable than previously thought. Their new study, published March 4 in the advanced online publication of the journal Nature , shows that through a process called plasticity, parts of the brain can be trained to do something they normally do not do
Injectable gel could repair tissue damaged by heart attack
ScienceDaily (Feb. 21, 2012) University of California, San Diego researchers have developed a new injectable hydrogel that could be an effective and safe treatment for tissue damage caused by heart attacks. The study by Karen Christman and colleagues appears in the Feb.
Breast cancer spread triggered by a cleaver-wielding protein on cancer cell’s surface
ScienceDaily (Jan. 16, 2012) Scientists from the University of Helsinki, Finland, and from UCSF, US, have exposed a cell pathway that breast tumor cells use to destruct local tissue neighborhood. Cancer cells may use this pathway to free themselves from mammary epithelial tissue architecture, to spread to surrounding tissues
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