Friday, September 30, 2011

Dominant personality may be hardcoded in the brain

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A study with dominant and subordinate mice suggests that personality traits making one a social leader are likely to be hardcoded in the br...

Early steps in tumour formation made more clear

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A new technique has given us more insights in how cells start to become cancerous. Scientists observed a process called translocation, whe...
Thursday, September 29, 2011

Autism induced in mice to help us study the disease

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Psychological diseases, like autism, are hard to study in animals, because they can not think in the way we humans do. However, in an effor...
Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Rats get partly 'robot brain'

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A new step in the development to create fully-fledged bionic robots, as scientists have replaced part of the rat brain by a chip, which is...
Monday, September 26, 2011

Protein study shows how our brain forms memories

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Studies conducted on a protein called kibra shows how our brain creates and erases memories. Scientists from John Hopkins University used ...
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Potent new compounds found to combat flu

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Flu epidemics are a yearly recurring event, caused by the mutational strength of the virus that causes the disease: influenza. Because of t...
Sunday, September 25, 2011

Artificial heart cells beat in response to light

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Heart cells created in the lab are able to beat in synchronized fashion by externally controlling them with light. This remarkable feature ...