People with haemophilia have an error in their genetic code that doesn’t allow them to produce the protein needed for healthy blood clotting, this article explains. University College London and St Jude Children’s Research Hospital in the US tried to find a solution to this genetic problem that was more permanent solution than the medication [...]
Scientists have discovered how people form long-term memories. Apparently the process relies on communication between two parts of the hippocampus, committing a short-term memory to long term memory. This takes place deep within the brain, and has been poorly understood since its recent discovery. Recently, however, Theodore Berger and a team from Wake Forest University [...]
There is a small article on the Science News webpage about how cells can trap and “jail” bacteria. The new study shows that cells are able to trap and kill bacteria that invade the body. Serge Mostowy and Pascale Cossart of Pasteur Institute in Paris studied Shigella, a diarrhea causing bacteria, and saw that 10-30 [...]
Ever wondered on why we dream? Well I found this article to answer that question. Studies show that dreaming is a type of “overnight therapy.” The leader of the study, Matthew Walker, placed young volunteers into two groups. Both groups would look at images, and the scientists measured their brain activity using a MRI scanner. [...]
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) has always been a problem for those who have seen military action, and I suppose it always will be. But the newest development in “shell shock” has been in canines. Just like humans, dogs suffer from PTSD after seeing action, such as firefights, deaths, bombings, trauma, etc. This (PTSD) is [...]
Do you skateboard? One article talks about how skateboarders are good at physics, even better than most physics professors. People use their own experiences to solve problems such as how fast an object would go down different slopes. Researchers showed 122 college students two different paths: a steep, long incline, and a shorter, straight incline, [...]
Baldness treatments use methods similar to animals to increase hair growth. Extra fur growth is “not only triggered by hormones in the layer of skin called the dermis, but also by signals coming from elsewhere in the body,” according to Dr. Cheng-Ming Chuong. The signals change during different seasons, which makes the thickness of the animal’s [...]
Synesthesia is a very rare, very interesting, neural disease that causes senses to intermingle. People with synesthesia have a variety of symptoms, including things like seeing colors as music is played and hearing the tastes of their food. However, this disease is just common enough to be quite well defined, and really not widespread. What created [...]
In this article I found that new research with worms suggests that there are molecular mechanisms that can regulate the aging of a woman’s reproductive system. This will help researchers determine why it is that a woman’s fertility organs age a lot faster than the rest of the body. Coleen Murphy of Princeton University said [...]
Studies show that teens who were abused or neglected during childhood have fewer tissues that contain brain cells. The parts that are affected are different for both boys and girls, and on how their abuse or neglect was. For example, emotional neglect affected the area of the brain that regulated emotion. Then, researchers found that [...]
