Genetically Modified Monkeys to Help Fight Huntington's Disease
	Huntington's disease is an abnormal hereditary genetic mutation, currently incurable, which determines an increasingly fast deterioration of certain nerve cells in the brain. The disease itself is not lethal, although the complications are. The symptoms usually appear around middle age and manifest themselves through uncontrolled movement, emotional disturbances and mental deterioration, followed - in 10 to 15 years’ time - by death. ... [read more >>]
	19 May 2008, 08:29GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

New Cocktail Makes the Brain Grow
	You have to eat well to function well. To grow muscles you need proteins in your food. We stimulate our brain with various products, from caffeine to lecithin. But what about a cocktail making your brain grow? A MIT team has discovered that a cocktail made of 3 chemicals, normally found in the blood stream, boosts the formation of new synapses (brain cell connections), improving cognitive skills in rodents, as it is detailed in the res ... [read more >>]
	27 November 2007, 04:07GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The Smarter You Are, The Later and Faster You'll Get Demented
	It may sound paradoxical, but ‘exercised’ brains get demented much rapidly than the nerd ones. Highly instructed patients seem to outcome easier dementia symptoms in the first stages, compensating subliminally the deficits through trained "thinking power". University graduates experience memory loss 50 % faster than people with less formal education do. At the time dementia becomes noticeable, both educational groups may disp ... [read more >>]
	25 October 2007, 09:18GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Blueberry Boosts Brain Activity
	We have just found out why the Americans are so smart: because of the blueberry!... Just a sole dietary switch on the lab animals with a genetic pattern rendering them prone towards Alzheimer's disease enabled them to act as well as healthy counterparts in maze tests. The team at the Agricultural Research Service (ARS), U.S. Department of Agriculture's chief scientific research agency, found the diet-induced beha ... [read more >>]
	10 August 2007, 07:17GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Cloned Pigs Are Demented
	After the mad cow, why not the demented pig? This is what Danish researchers at Institute of Human Genetics, Aarhus University, and University of Copenhagen, led by Associate Professor Arne Lund Jorgensen, are going to produce: the first pigs containing genes that trigger the Alzheimer’s disease. The first cloned piglets will be born in August. The Alzheimer linked gene was inserted into the somatic cells. The nuclei of these ... [read more >>]
	06 July 2007, 06:33GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Sony's Throwing the PS3 into Curing Diseases
	If the PS3 can't make it into the hearts of fans with its super-console abilities, Sony thought of including the machine in more useful ... [read more >>]
	16 March 2007, 08:27GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia