A regenerated heartbeat
Science Daily reports on a rebuilt heart – a mouse heart remade with human stem cells – that they’ve gotten to start beating: For the […]
biology
(Can’t beat this headline) “How to regrow your head.”
Nature has the details on what it takes to come back from a decapitation: Knocking out a single gene can switch on a worm’s ability […]
Breast-feeding grows brains.
Futurity hops on the lactation train with a study that proves breastfed babies grow their brains earlier and better: [T]his is the first imaging study […]
Novel bacteria live in Lake Vostok. THEY LIVE!
PhysOrg announces the discovery of eerie, ancient lifeforms in an Antarctic lake: The samples obtained from the underground lake in May 2012 contained a bacteria […]
Mommy and me. (Or, I can’t get this kid out of my mind!)
Scientific American reveals that researchers have found evidence of what they call “microchimerism” – the children’s cells are living in their mother’s brains: We are […]
Climbing cukes clinch kinky springs.
Say that five times fast. Harvard Gazette wraps its tendrils around a new way to build springs based on the coiling shoots of cucumber vines: […]
So maybe that reduced-calorie diet won’t extend your life after all….
NIH reports that cutting calories by two-thirds, contrary to what you might expect, might not add years to your lifespan: Scientists have found that calorie […]
Science Art: 5257: Life cycle of Diphyllobothrium latum.
Click to embiggen This is Diphyllobothrium latum, a tapeworm that might make itself at home inside you if you eat undercooked fish. The picture comes […]
The music of spider-silk strings.
BBC reveals a Japanese project that combines biology, engineering and beauty – spinning violin strings out of spider silk: Shigeyoshi Osaki of Japan’s Nara Medical […]
Testosterone and bad ideas.
Irish Times reveals the link between lousy decision-making and the hormone linked to lust and aggression: Dr Nick Wright and colleagues at the Wellcome Trust […]
Skin becomes brain
BBC News ponders what it means for our bodies when Stanford University professors start shuffling around our cellular building blocks. Not turning stem cells into […]
Garage biology. (Like garage rock.)
The Daily is reporting on a revolution. DIY researchers are leaving the academy to take a punk rock approach to science: Three years ago, [Mackensie] […]
The human problem: long life and shrinking brains.
BBC News uncovers a strange complex of problems that humans have and chimps don’t. We get old. On the one hand, we live a long […]
Plastic isn’t sexy.
Not just looking at – being around it. Science Daily has the skinny on how BPA is making male mice less attractive to females: The […]
Stress alters kids’ chromosomes.
Nature reports on the deep damage suffered by kids in orphanages – not psychological, but down in their chromosomes: Children who spent their early years […]