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We know that pork is not very healthy, but pig brain proves harmful in a very unexpected way. 18 pork plant workers in Minnesota, 5 in Indiana and 1 in Nebraska have been detected so far with a mysterious neurological disease got while removing brains from slaughtered pigs, as signaled at the American Academy of Neur... |
18 April 2008
14:06 GMT |
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Until a machine will read your thoughts, a first step has been made: New Scientists signals the development of a neckband that decodes your nerve signals into speech. For the first time, you could make a phone call without opening your mouth.A trained individual can transmit motor messages to its vocal cords without ... |
19 March 2008
06:12 GMT |
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There are women who do not even know what an orgasm feels like. Others must 'squeeze' a stud, like a lemon, to get one. And, let's face it, how many males are real studs?... The solution is found in the invention of Dr. Stuart Meloy, an anesthesiologist and pain specialist in Winston-Salem.4 years ago,... |
27 February 2008
14:06 GMT |
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Are you naturally born Viking? Or do you shiver at the slightest breeze? That's on your genetics. A new research, published in the Journal of Neuroscience, shows that it could be in fact in a single protein. Some studies had pointed that cold-sensing neurons have specialized functions, with some for painful cold... |
19 December 2007
03:12 GMT |
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Over 90 % of the amputees report severe pain in the "phantom" limb, in many cases a sensation that the arm or leg is not correctly positioned. The pain can be excruciating and common painkiller drugs do almost nothing. Researches have showed that a mirror 'tricking' the mind that lost limb is still there co... |
26 November 2007
06:14 GMT |
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In movies, machines and people can read your mind. Till we achieve that, a first step could be done, which would be quite a breakthrough: translate the thoughts of a paralyzed person into speech in a pioneering experiment. Jonathan Brumberg from Boston University revealed the results of his team at the meeting of the... |
16 November 2007
05:45 GMT |
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Up until now, humans were able to regenerate limbs only in science fiction and children movies. But for a salamander, this is as simple as for a lizard to regenerate its tail, a trait that has fascinated humans for a long time, but which has remained unexplained. Now, a new research shows that one molecule could be t... |
2 November 2007
04:42 GMT |
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One step further in turning the "Universal Soldier" into reality. A team at the University of Manchester and UK Center for Tissue Regeneration (UKCTR) led by Dr Paul Kingham has managed to turn fat tissue stem cells into nerve cells, with the potential of growing an artificial nerve that will revive paralyzed limbs a... |
18 October 2007
04:01 GMT |
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Nanotechnology could now perform what was regarded before as a miracle: nerve regenerating.As a first approach at the University of Miami, magnetic nanoparticles (MNPs) were used to build mechanical tension that enhanced the growth and elongation of axons of the central nervous system neurons. The second approach at ... |
21 May 2007
05:30 GMT |
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A breakthrough in creating robocops has been achieved: the world's first direct electrical link between nerve cells and photovoltaic nanoparticle films. The achievement made by a team at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston (UTMB) and the University of Michigan is the first step towards an artific... |
5 March 2007
07:31 GMT |
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