Science and Health

This week in Science

Seeded on Sun Apr 22, 2007 3:07 PM EDT (The Boston Globe)

This week's Science includes a special section on germ cells -- the reproductive cells of an organism.

stem-cell, health, germ-cells

ScienceNews-USATODAY.com

Seeded on Sun Mar 18, 2007 1:05 AM EDT (USA Today)

stem-cell, science, chimera-controversy

Researchers Map Neuron Connections

Seeded on Wed Mar 14, 2007 11:20 PM EDT (Salk Institute)

Many neuroscientists and AI researchers believe that truly understanding how the brain works will be impossible until we can fathom how the billions of neurons are connected.

science, brain, neuron

Low Birth Weight May Predict Depression In Teen Girls

Seeded on Tue Mar 6, 2007 5:35 PM EST ()

Girls born weighing less than 2,500 grams (about 5.5 pounds) may be more likely to develop depression between ages 13 to 16 than those born at a normal weight, while the same does not appear to be true for boys, according to a report in the March issue of Archives of General Psyc …

science, depression, diet-and-weight-loss, dieting-and-weight-control

Neurons That Detect Motion Rapidly Switch Between Modes Of Data Collection

Mon Mar 5, 2007 1:52 PM EST

Form does follow function, as far as visual cortex neurons tasked with perceiving action are concerned.

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science, neron

Health experts bet on spread of bird flu

Seeded on Thu Mar 1, 2007 9:35 AM EST (The Boston Globe)

Think bird flu will become a worldwide threat this summer? Wanna put some money on that?

health, bird-flu, prevent

Bone sialoprotein may lead to better treatments for virulent breast cancers

Wed Feb 28, 2007 4:08 PM EST

Research under way in a bustling laboratory, Chen Lab, at Tufts University School of Dental Medicine may produce a therapy for stopping or controlling the metastasis of breast or prostate cancer to bone.

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science, breast-cancer, bone-sialoprotein, metastasis

Newsvine - Two methods of bypass surgery seem about equal

Seeded on Wed Feb 28, 2007 4:02 PM EST (Newsvine)

health

Two methods of bypass surgery seem about equal

Wed Feb 28, 2007 11:02 AM EST

Each of the two main methods of heart bypass surgery has its drawbacks: When surgeons stop a patient's heart and use a machine to do the work of the heart and lungs, it can, in rare cases, trigger a stroke or, more commonly, lead to a mental fuzziness described as "pump-head." Bu …

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health, heart, coronary-artery-disease, cabg