Ted Larson arrives at geek headquarters smack in the middle of the much-awaited season premiere of UPN’s latest Star Trek show, Enterprise. The former chief technical officer at an Internet startup, Larson sports blue jeans, a white Tech TV T-shirt, and loafers with white socks, and is carrying a large, tattered FedEx box that contains […]

An anti-epilepsy drug has shown promising results for treating cocaine addiction in a preliminary US trial.
Gamma-vinyl-GABA (GVG), also known as vigabatrin, works in part by blocking the craving for cocaine. When combined with counselling, 40 per cent of addicts successfully gave up their habit for the duration of the sixty-day study.

Cells taken from cloned mouse embryos have been used to successfully treat a condition similar to Parkinson’s disease in humans.
The breakthrough, by US researchers, could assist the search for a cure for the common brain condition.

The embryonic “stem cells”, reports the journal Nature Biotechnology, were grown into new tissue which was implanted into the mouse […]