This SHOULD be a headline in major newspapers, but due to big money manipulations it has not been picked up. Many communities have enacted smoking bans in public places, some of which have been in effect for several years. How is that affecting our overall health? According to an analysis of studies, the bans are significantly [...]

Paralyzed rats walk
Scientists recently used treadmill exercise, drugs, and electrical stimulation to train paralyzed rats to walk once again, demonstrating a way to possibly treat spinal injuries in humans, which at present are basically untreatable.

Sometimes you have to think that maybe a pig is mans best friend
When a hobby-store owner in Cincinnati sliced off his fingertip in 2005 while showing a customer why the motor on his model plane was dangerous, he went to the emergency room without the missing tip. He couldn’t find it anywhere. The doctor bandaged [...]

scientists have developed a pair of glasses that receive visual data from a camera mounted on a them and send the images to a chip attatched on the side of the eyeball.

Inspired by the success of cochlear implants that can restore hearing to some deaf people, researchers at MIT are working on a retinal implant [...]

Of the countless equinoxes Saturn has seen since the birth of the solar system, this one, captured here in a mosaic of light and dark, is the first witnessed up close by an emissary from Earth … none other than our faithful robotic explorer, Cassini.
NASA scientists are marveling over the extent of ruffles and dust [...]

For the first time, an experimental vaccine has prevented infection with the AIDS virus, a watershed event in the deadly epidemic and a surprising result. Recent failures led many scientists to think such a vaccine might never be possible.  The World Health Organization and the U.N. agency UNAIDS said the results “instilled new hope” in [...]

Sharron Kay Thornton talks with her lead surgeon Victor Perez who restored sight to her left eye.
Doctors in Miami announced Wednesday that they had performed a vision-restoring surgery that used the 60-year-old patient’s tooth.The surgery, the first in the USA, was performed Labor Day weekend at the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute at the University of [...]

A skeleton, found at one of the most important, but least understood, Roman sites in Britain is puzzling experts from The University of Nottingham.
A skeleton, found at one of the most important, but least understood, Roman sites in Britain is puzzling experts from The University of Nottingham.

Wine tastes different to those who are given information on the product before a wine tasting, tests where the test people received information on the wine before and after the tasting have shown.
Wine tastes different to those who are given information on the product before a wine tasting, tests where the test people received information [...]

 
Space time continuum may be the stuff of Star Trek, but it’s not mere fiction to Holly Branigan. The Edinburgh University psychologist can actually “see” time:
“I thought everyone thought like I did, says Holly Branigan, also a scientist at Edinburgh University, and someone with time-space synaesthesia.
“I found out when I attended a talk in the [...]

A tiny bit of genetic material with no previously known function may hold the key to stopping the spread of cancer, researchers at Yale School of Medicine and Sichuan University in Chengdu, China report in two papers in the September 7-11 issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
 

These are zebrafish that were cloned in the Michigan State University Cellular Reprogramming Laboratory
A team of Michigan State University researchers has developed a new, more efficient way of cloning zebra fish, a breakthrough that could have implications for human health research.

A new study shows that heat can produce a potentially toxic substance in high-fructose corn syrup that may kill honeybees.
Researchers have established the conditions that foster formation of potentially dangerous levels of a toxic substance in the high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS) that is often fed to honey bees. Their study, which appears in the current [...]

The Army’s Advanced Combat Helmet replaced the older Personal Armor System for Ground Troops helmet.
New research on the effects of blast waves could lead to an enhanced understanding of head injuries and improved military helmet design.

University of California Santa Barbara researcher Erkki Ruoslahti
Scientists at UC Santa Barbara have discovered a potential new drug delivery system. The finding is a biological mechanism for delivery of nanoparticles into tissue. The results are published in this week’s Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
 

The breakthrough could potentially free thousands of patients from attending hospital every other day.  More than 25,000 people in Britain need to have regular dialysis, usually around three times a week, because their kidneys do not function properly.
 

The world’s first face, jaw and tongue transplant has been carried out by doctors in Spain.  Surgeons spent 16 hours operating on a 43-year-old man whose face had been horribly disfigured.
 

Social rejection can hurt.
UCLA psychologists have determined for the first time that a gene linked with physical pain sensitivity is associated with social pain sensitivity as well.

Oh what fun it appears that scientists are attempting to play God again
In what has been described as a step towards the creation of a synthetic cell, scientists have created a new “engineered” strain of bacteria.

DNA or faux DNA?

A laboratory at Nucleix, a life-sciences company, was able to manufacture DNA that would be accurate enough to pass forensic scrutiny:
“You can just engineer a crime scene,” Nucleix founder Dan Frumkin told The New York Times. “The current forensic procedure fails to distinguish between such samples of blood, saliva, and touched surfaces [...]

Serena Rush, 6, who got cochlear implants about 4 years ago and now has about 70% hearing.
Six-year-old Serena Rush loves to belt out It’s a Hard Knock Life, her favorite tune from the musical Annie, and someday she hopes to be a stage actress, when she’s not being a lifeguard. Which is pretty splendid considering [...]

I think its about time we give mice credit for their role in creating new medicine
A new study conducted on mice has uncovered a chemical compound that effectively targets cancer stem cells – the key cells that spread malignant tumours and are usually resistant to treatment.

A new experimental treatment for multiple sclerosis (MS) completely reverses the devastating autoimmune disorder in mice, and might work exactly the same way in humans, say researchers at the Jewish General Hospital Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research and McGill University in Montreal.
 

Two of St. Jude Medical’s latest devices, a pacemaker and an AICD, that feature company’s wireless reporting technology.
After relying on a pacemaker for 20 years, Carol Kasyjanski has become the first American recipient of a wireless pacemaker that allows her doctor to monitor her health from afar — over the Internet.
 

Can you hear me now?

A new generation of hearing aids will be able to block out background noise and let users directly jack into music:
On Friday Mr Hughes had tiny titanium screws drilled into bone behind each ear during a 90-minute operation under general anaesthetic. Once the wounds heal and the screws have fused with [...]