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(Can’t beat this headline) “How to regrow your head.”

6 August 2013 grant 0

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 to regenerate parts of its body, even enabling it to

… Read the rest “(Can’t beat this headline) “How to regrow your head.””

Breast-feeding grows brains.

7 June 2013 grant 0

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 that looked for differences associated

… Read the rest “Breast-feeding grows brains.”

Novel bacteria live in Lake Vostok. THEY LIVE!

8 March 2013 grant 0

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 which bore no resemblance

… Read the rest “Novel bacteria live in Lake Vostok. THEY LIVE!”

Mommy and me. (Or, I can’t get this kid out of my mind!)

6 December 2012 grant 0

Scientific American reveals that researchers have found evidence of what they call “microchimerism” – the children’s cells are living in their mother’s… Read the rest “Mommy and me. (Or, I can’t get this kid out of my mind!)”

Climbing cukes clinch kinky springs.

5 September 2012 grant 0

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:

Harvard researchers, captivated by a strange

… Read the rest “Climbing cukes clinch kinky springs.”

So maybe that reduced-calorie diet won’t extend your life after all….

31 August 2012 grant 0

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 restriction—a diet comprised

… Read the rest “So maybe that reduced-calorie diet won’t extend your life after all….”

Science Art: 5257: Life cycle of Diphyllobothrium latum.

18 March 2012 grant 0


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This is Diphyllobothrium latum, a tapeworm that might make itself at home inside you if you eat undercooked fish. The picture comes from the 80s but it must’ve been… Read the rest “Science Art: 5257: Life cycle of Diphyllobothrium latum.”

The music of spider-silk strings.

7 March 2012 grant 0

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 University

… Read the rest “The music of spider-silk strings.”

Testosterone and bad ideas.

7 February 2012 grant 0

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 Centre for Neuroimaging at

… Read the rest “Testosterone and bad ideas.”

Skin becomes brain

6 February 2012 grant 0

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 other kinds of cells,… Read the rest “Skin becomes brain”

Garage biology. (Like garage rock.)

25 October 2011 grant b 0

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] Cowell and his counterpart Jason Bobe,

… Read the rest “Garage biology. (Like garage rock.)”

The human problem: long life and shrinking brains.

27 July 2011 grant b 0

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 time. And on the other, our brains shrink:

Anthropologist

… Read the rest “The human problem: long life and shrinking brains.”

Plastic isn’t sexy.

29 June 2011 grant b 0

Not just looking at – being around it. Science Daily has the skinny on how BPA is making male mice less attractive to females:

The latest research from the University of Missouri shows

… Read the rest “Plastic isn’t sexy.”

Stress alters kids’ chromosomes.

18 May 2011 grant b 1

Nature reports on the deep damage suffered by kids in orphanages – not psychological, but down in their chromosomes:

Children who spent their early years in state-run Romanian orphanages

… Read the rest “Stress alters kids’ chromosomes.”

Sex, 40 million B.C.

3 March 2011 grant b 0

The book of love might be rewritten by each generation, but the pictures don’t change much. So MSNBC proves with its personal look at an intimate moment from a long, long, long time … Read the rest “Sex, 40 million B.C.”

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  • Dr. Jim Webb, astronomy professor and acoustic guitarist.
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