Electricity in my veins.
Surgeons are readying their Frankenstein-style electrodes, NBC says, in preparation for building new blood vessels with the power (and shape) of lightning: The artificial organs […]
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Art for health.
PhysOrg brightens up the future of health care with the healing power of art: Nanda, who has a doctorate in architecture with a specialization in […]
Wooden bones.
DiscoveryNews leaves me rooted to the spot with a sprouting fascination in the latest medical implant – bones made from wood: The researchers chose wood […]
Blue Gatorade heals broken spines.
Or, really, Science Daily explains, it’s the blue food dye that can heal and prevent spinal injuries: In an article published online in the Proceedings […]
SONG: Like Salamanders Do
SONG: “Like Salamanders Do” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: “Regenerated legs no big trick for salamanders”, Reuters, 1 July 2009, […]
Vatican funds stem-cell research.
The Australian Associated Press reports on a new move from the Catholic Church, which is offering a $100,000 research grant for work on adult stem […]
That healing fizz.
So you get a cut – ouch! – and you put a band-aid on it, but first, you make sure you disinfect it with hydrogen […]
Bisphenol-A: a Big Tobacco-style cover-up?
That seems to be what Science Blogs just published… an industry memo from the North American Metal Packaging Alliance, Inc. covering strategies for combating the […]
Skin, hair… stem cells?
The Guardian is covering a new medical breakthrough involving miracle cures made from the patients’ own skin and hair: People who are born with Fanconi […]
SONG: “If I Believe It”
SONG: “If I Believe It” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: “The science of voodoo: When mind attacks body “, New […]
Make mine an iced tea.
BBC says that Coke’ll kill you, man: This is because the drink can cause blood potassium to drop dangerously low, they report in the International […]
Music opens your heart. No, really.
CNN recently covered some fun physiological research from the University of Maryland that showed that music – music you like – really is good for […]
Imaginary poisons.
New Scientist examines the harmful health effects of the power of negative thinking: The placebo effect has an evil twin: the nocebo effect, in which […]
Food wrapper plastics are in our blood.
Something’s gotten in The Charleston Gazette’s blood – and ours, too. You want to know the future? One word. Plastics: Around the world, scientists are […]
Breathe out.
The MIT Technology Review (and other sources) have reported on a new technique that Canadian doctors devised for preparing lungs for transplants – or repairing […]