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Gene therapy cures monkeys of laziness

Gene therapy cures monkeys of laziness

Gene therapy cures monkeys of laziness

Procrastinating primates can be turned into workaholics, thanks to gene therapy. The discovery, which sheds light on the workings of the brain's reward centre, may further our understanding of mood disorders, such as depression and obsessive-compulsive disorder.

Like many huma

News Articles and Discussion   bio_man   889   13 years ago

8-Year-Olds Publish Article in Respected Biology Journal

8-Year-Olds Publish Article in Respected Biology Journal

A class project about bees prepared by a group of British schoolchildren was published in a leading scientific journal Wednesday.

The 25 students -- aged between eight and 10 -- studied how bees see color and patterns for a class project at Blackawton Primary School in southwestern England.

‘We discovered that bumble-bees can use a combin

News Articles and Discussion   bio_man   1057   13 years ago

Genetic Mutation May Lead to Violent and Reckless Behavior

Genetic Mutation May Lead to Violent and Reckless Behavior

In a discovery that could help scientists further understand impulsivity in humans, researchers have announced they found a genetic variant that may contribute to spontaneous violent behavior.

In a new study released in the journal Nature, a multinational research team examined the genes of 96 violent criminal offenders in Finland with behavioral disorders and compared i

News Articles and Discussion   bio_man   1206   13 years ago

Probiotic natural health product over undeclared dairy, says Health Canada

Probiotic natural health product over undeclared dairy, says Health Canada

Probiotic natural health product over undeclared dairy, says Health Canada

OTTAWA - Health Canada says a probiotic natural health product is being recalled because it could contain trace amounts of dairy not declared on the labels.

It says the oral capsules — Cultures de Yogourt 2 Milliards (NPN 80013273), from the company Bio-Dis

News Articles and Discussion   bio_man   948   13 years ago

What's the best solution for hair loss?

What's the best solution for hair loss?

THE two most commonly known medications for slowing down balding are Minoxidil lotion (Regaine or Rogaine), drops of which are rubbed into the scalp twice daily and Finasteride tablets (trade name Propecia), which are taken once daily.

The lotion can be purchased over the counter but the tablets require a script. Both only work as long as you

News Articles and Discussion   bio_man   832   13 years ago

Mount Sinai Researchers Develop Mouse Model To Help Find How A Gene Mutation Lea

Mount Sinai Researchers Develop Mouse Model To Help Find How A Gene Mutation Lea

Mount Sinai Researchers Develop Mouse Model To Help Find How A Gene Mutation Leads To Autism

Researchers from Mount Sinai School of Medicine have found that when one copy of the SHANK3 gene in mice is missing, nerve cells do not effectively communicate and do not show cellular properties associated with no

News Articles and Discussion   biolove   1004   13 years ago

HIV drugs, Abacavir and Didanosine increase the risk of heart attack

HIV drugs, Abacavir and Didanosine increase the risk of heart attack

HIV drugs, Abacavir and Didanosine increase the risk of heart attack

A study to assess the adverse effects of anti-retroviral drugs shows that two widely-used HIV drugs are associated with an increased risk of heart attack/the formation of blood clots in the heart. With the use of Didanosi

News Articles and Discussion   bio_man   857   13 years ago

Non-toxic chemical turned B.C. river green

Non-toxic chemical turned B.C. river green

Non-toxic chemical turned B.C. river green

When a stretch of the Goldstream River on Vancouver Island unexpectedly turned neon green last week, res

News Articles and Discussion   bio_man   1090   13 years ago

Life on Other Plants? Living on Mars

Life on Other Plants? Living on Mars

Living on Mars is a National Geographic production documentary dealing with the possibilities of making Mars more hospitable to humans, thus terraforming it.

“On the surface, the red planet’s freeze-dried world of rocks, ice, and dust looks like an unlikely place to plant a garden. But rocks and minerals found by the Mars rovers show it must once have had warm

News Articles and Discussion   bio_man   906   13 years ago

David Eagleman - The Brain and The Law

David Eagleman - The Brain and The Law

The Unconscious Part Of Your Brain Is The Real Main Decision-Maker.

The Role Of Consciousness Has Been Hugely Exaggerated, Ill Defined And Largely Misunderstood

News Articles and Discussion   bio_man   902   13 years ago

Using Light To Control Brains

Using Light To Control Brains

This video shows how scientists can control the behaviour of cells simply by switching on a light. The technique, known as optogenetics, is teaching us about everything from how we wake up to how we learn. That's why Nature Methods has named optogenetics as its Method of the Year 2010.

News Articles and Discussion   biolove   829   13 years ago

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News Articles and Discussion   mountain1996   1156   13 years ago

Tracking the tell-tale signs of pure genius

Tracking the tell-tale signs of pure genius

Tracking the tell-tale signs of pure genius

A leading neuroscientist on the intriguing case studies that are revealing the powerful, adaptive potential of the human brain

A 70-year-old

News Articles and Discussion   bio_man   1493   13 years ago

Genes may play role in friends we choose, says study

Genes may play role in friends we choose, says study

Genes may play role in friends we choose, says study

By Neil Bowdler

Researchers in the United States say they have uncovered tentative evidence of a genetic component to friendshi

News Articles and Discussion   bio_man   973   13 years ago

Drug may guard against lung cancer death

Drug may guard against lung cancer death

Drug may guard against lung cancer death

Tamoxifen, a drug commonly used to treat breast cancer, may also help reduce the risk of

News Articles and Discussion   bio_man   784   13 years ago

DNA caught rock 'n rollin'

DNA caught rock 'n rollin'

DNA caught rock 'n rollin'

DNA, that marvelous, twisty molecule of life, has an alter ego, research at the University of Michigan and the University of California, Irvine reveals.

On rare occasions, its building blocks "rock and roll," deforming the fa

News Articles and Discussion   bio_man   943   13 years ago

Unexpected find opens up new front in effort to stop HIV

Unexpected find opens up new front in effort to stop HIV

Unexpected find opens up new front in effort to stop HIV

HIV adapts in a surprising way to survive and thrive in its hiding spot within the human immune system, scientists have learned. While the finding helps explain why HIV remains such a formidable foe after three decades of research – more than 30 m

News Articles and Discussion   bio_man   882   13 years ago

An extra 5 years of life an unexpected benefit of osteoporosis treatment

An extra 5 years of life an unexpected benefit of osteoporosis treatment

An extra 5 years of life an unexpected benefit of osteoporosis treatment

Australian clinical researchers have noted an extraordinary and unexpected benefit of osteoporosis treatment – that people taking bisphosphonates are not only surviving well, better than people without osteoporosis

News Articles and Discussion   bio_man   973   13 years ago

IPTc found to reduce prevalence of malaria infection in children by up to 85 per

IPTc found to reduce prevalence of malaria infection in children by up to 85 per

IPTc found to reduce prevalence of malaria infection in children by up to 85 percent

Carried out in Burkina Faso and Mali– have found that combining intermittent preventive treatment of malaria in children (IPTc) with insecticide-treated bednets (ITNs) can substantially reduce the incid

News Articles and Discussion   bio_man   914   13 years ago

Researchers identify molecular predictor of metastatic prostate cancer

Researchers identify molecular predictor of metastatic prostate cancer

Researchers identify molecular predictor of metastatic prostate cancer

Prostate tumors that carry a "signature" of four molecular markers have the potential to become dangerously metastatic if not treated aggressively, researchers at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute report in a st

News Articles and Discussion   bio_man   847   13 years ago

Schizophrenia gene mutation found; target for new drugs

Schizophrenia gene mutation found; target for new drugs

Schizophrenia gene mutation found; target for new drugs

In a major advance for schizophrenia research, an international team of scientists, led by Jonathan Sebat, PhD, assistant professor of psychiatry and cellular and molecular medicine at the University of California, San Diego School

News Articles and Discussion   bio_man   1126   13 years ago

Biofuel from Tofu Waste

Biofuel from Tofu Waste

A tofu waste recycling facility opened a year ago here outside of Yogyakarta. Waste water from 400 kilograms of soybean used for tofu production is collected in tanks every day and undergoes fermentation.

The bio-gas generated in a treatment facility then flows into pipes connected

News Articles and Discussion   bio_man   1024   13 years ago

Why infertility will stop humans colonising space

Why infertility will stop humans colonising space

Why infertility will stop humans colonising space

According to a review by three scientists looking into the feasibility of colonising Mars, astronauts would be well advised to avoid getting pre

News Articles and Discussion   bio_man   789   13 years ago

Henry Markram on the Blue Brain Project

Henry Markram on the Blue Brain Project

The Blue Brain Project is the first comprehensive attempt to reverse-engineer the mammalian brain, in order to understand brain function and dysfunction through detailed simulations. This type of simulation is interesting because it uses a large amount of high-quality inputs and detailed logic. More money should go towards projects like this, instead of foggy climate simulations.

News Articles and Discussion   wouldbe   1088   13 years ago

Zebrafish key to cure?

Zebrafish key to cure?

HUMANS SHARE CANCER GENE



Melissa Kasheta a research technician at the University of Massachusetts Medical School does research on melanoma using zebrafi

News Articles and Discussion   bio_man   976   13 years ago

Bizarre Sea Creatures

Bizarre Sea Creatures

Weird, Strange, Bizarre and Unknown Fish and Sea Creatures, straight out of the Belly of Hell! REALLY! Pretty cool stuff.

News Articles and Discussion   duddy   1084   13 years ago

Tribute to YURI GAGARIN ( The First Man In Space ) - 50th anniversary

Tribute to YURI GAGARIN ( The First Man In Space ) - 50th anniversary

April 12, 2011 - 50th anniversary of the world's first manned flight into space carried out by Yuri Gagarin.Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin Hero of the Soviet Union, was a Soviet cosmonaut who on 12 April 1961 became the first human to journey into outer space,launching to orbit aboard the Vostok 3KA-3 (Vostok 1). His call sign in this flight was Kedr (Russian: ?). On 27 March 1968

News Articles and Discussion   duddy   894   13 years ago

World's First 3D Human Brain Map

World's First 3D Human Brain Map

World's biggest human brain map unveiled



The world's biggest computerised map of the brain was released yesterday by scientists at the Allen Institute for Brain Science, in Seattle, Washington, after mor

News Articles and Discussion   bio_man   1294   13 years ago

Sickle cell anemia breakthrough

Sickle cell anemia breakthrough

Reported December 2009

SAN DIEGO (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Sickle cell -- it's a genetic disease that affects 70,000 people in the U.S. A blood disease that causes extreme pain, there is no cure. Now researchers are working toward a life-saving solution.

 

"I've had my spleen, gallbladder, tonsils and adenoids removed," 15-year-old si

News Articles and Discussion   Aj5   926   13 years ago

Are You Prepared For Human-Driven Technological Evolution ?

Are You Prepared For Human-Driven Technological Evolution ?

Medical ethicist Harvey Fineberg shows us three paths forward for the ever-evolving human species: to stop evolving completely, to evolve naturally -- or to control the next steps of human evolution, using genetic modification, to make ourselves smarter, faster, better. Neo-evolution is within our grasp. What will we do with it?

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News Articles and Discussion   bio_man   713   13 years ago

David Christian: Big history

David Christian: Big history

Backed by stunning illustrations, David Christian narrates a complete history of the universe, from the Big Bang to the Internet, in a riveting 18 minutes. This is "Big History": an enlightening, wide-angle look at complexity, life and humanity, set against our slim share of the cosmic timeline.

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News Articles and Discussion   bio_man   739   13 years ago

The Evolution of Mobile

The Evolution of Mobile

Using cutting edge 3D Projection Vodafone bring you The Evolution of Mobile. This is the first small-scale projection mapping installation using a hand-held camera. From the Motorola brick through to the first text message and colour screen to GPS and Android. The question is, what's next?

News Articles and Discussion   bio_man   652   13 years ago

Mars Science Laboratory (Curiosity Rover) Mission Animation

Mars Science Laboratory (Curiosity Rover) Mission Animation

This artist's concept animation depicts key events of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission, which will launch in late 2011 and land a rover, Curiosity, on Mars in August 2012.

News Articles and Discussion   bio_man   820   13 years ago

Evolution of Altruism (Kin Selection)

Evolution of Altruism (Kin Selection)

How altruism evolved, kin selection, etc.

News Articles and Discussion   bio_man   727   12 years ago

Cell Phones Photonic ‘Tweezer-Like’ Effect May Cause Human Tissue Damage !

Cell Phones Photonic ‘Tweezer-Like’ Effect May Cause Human Tissue Damage !

The long running debate on whether cell phones are capable of damaging human tissue and causing health problems received new fuel from a paper published at arXiv by theoretical biologist Bill Bruno from Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico.

Cell phones and the microwave photons they create have been looked at for some time as having the pote

News Articles and Discussion   bio_man   996   12 years ago

One Step Closer To Building Artificial Chromosomes

One Step Closer To Building Artificial Chromosomes

Whitehead Institute scientists report that two proteins once thought to have only supporting roles, are the true "stars" of the kinetochore assembly process in human cells.

The kinetochore is vital to proper DNA distribution during cell division. This finding suggests that scientists may be able to stimulate kinetochore assembly in a process that could le

News Articles and Discussion   bio_man   834   12 years ago

Augmented Reality With A “Cyborg-Like” Device Invented !!!

Augmented Reality With A “Cyborg-Like” Device Invented !!!

Eye-tracking microdisplay delivers Terminator vision, distracts joggers



The folks at Fraunhofer IPMS have done it! After years of tireless research and promises of Borg-like eyewear, the group h

News Articles and Discussion   bio_man   908   12 years ago

Machiavellian Intelligence

Machiavellian Intelligence

News Articles and Discussion   bio_man   711   12 years ago

Significant Step Towards Full 3-D INVISIBILITY CLOAK In Visible Light

Significant Step Towards Full 3-D INVISIBILITY CLOAK In Visible Light

Full 3-D invisibility cloak in visible light

Watching things disappear "is an amazing experience," admits Joachim Fischer of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany. But making items vanish is not the reason he creates invisibility cloaks. Rather, the magic-like tricks are attractive demonst

News Articles and Discussion   bio_man   658   12 years ago

A Software That Creates And Tells ‘Dirty’ Jokes

A Software That Creates And Tells ‘Dirty’ Jokes

That's what she said: Software that tells dirty jokes



Double entendres have been making us laugh since the days of Chaucer and Shakespeare, but up until now computers weren't in on the joke. Chloé Kiddon and

News Articles and Discussion   bio_man   729   12 years ago