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Stem cell ‘first aid’ for rat stroke
27 January 2013 Last updated at 20:06 ET Stem cells given in the vital period immediately after a stroke may aid recovery, suggest researchers. Rats injected with stem cells 30 minutes after a stroke had almost normal brain function restored within a fortnight. The Bolivian research team say the method has potential in human trials
Poor sleep in old age prevents the brain from storing memories
Jan. 27, 2013 The connection between poor sleep, memory loss and brain deterioration as we grow older has been elusive. But for the first time, scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, have found a link between these hallmark maladies of old age
Magnetic levitation tissues could speed toxicity tests
Jan. 24, 2013 In a development that could lead to faster and more effective toxicity tests for airborne chemicals, scientists from Rice University and the Rice spinoff company Nano3D Biosciences have used magnetic levitation to grow some of the most realistic lung tissue ever produced in a laboratory.
Science needs a second opinion: Researchers find flaws in study of patients in ‘vegetative state’
Jan. 24, 2013 A team of researchers led by Weill Cornell Medical College is calling into question the published statistics, methods and findings of a highly publicized research study that claimed bedside electroencephalography (EEG) identified evidence of awareness in three patients diagnosed to be in a vegetative state. The new reanalysis study led by Weill Cornell neurologists Drs
Scientists discover how epigenetic information could be inherited: Mechanism of epigenetic reprogramming revealed
Jan. 24, 2013 New research reveals a potential way for how parents’ experiences could be passed to their offspring’s genes. The research was published January, 25 in the journal Science
Scientists discover how epigenetic information could be inherited: Mechanism of epigenetic reprogramming revealed
Jan. 24, 2013 New research reveals a potential way for how parents’ experiences could be passed to their offspring’s genes
Jet fuel, plastics exposures cause disease in later generations; Reproductive diseases, obesity
Jan. 24, 2013 Washington State University researchers have lengthened their list of environmental toxicants that can negatively affect as many as three generations of an exposed animal’s offspring
Chance finding reveals new control on blood vessels in developing brain
Jan. 24, 2013 Zhen Huang freely admits he was not interested in blood vessels four years ago when he was studying brain development in a fetal mouse. Instead, he wanted to see how changing a particular gene in brain cells called glia would affect the growth of neurons
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