On Science News, an article about brain studies on Psychopaths on Wisconsin prison inmates show that they have weaker brains than that of a normal person. The study was performed on all inmates, 13 inmates which were non-psychopathic and 14 that were. The 14 that were classified as psychopaths had weak connections with the ventromedial [...]
I found this really interesting article about how pregnant women’s emotional conditions can affect their unborn babies’ development. It says that if mothers maintain a stable mood, healthy or depressed, their babies are more likely to develop better, according to psychologist Curt Sandman and his team of the University of California. So I guess its [...]
What do mood changes really do to your baby? This article talks about how mood changes during pregnancy may harm the baby. Research shows that babies do better on mental and motor abilities if their mother had a steady mood, even if the mood was depressed. Why? Researchers think that infants’ brains may detect their [...]
In this article I read about how pigs hearts could potentially be used as transplants for humans. I chose to read this article because I thought about how many people who are on waiting lists for organs, and how this could change their lives. It is called xenotransplantation. The major problems that could occur besides [...]
“A 3D printer is being used to create ‘bone-like’ material which researchers claim can be used to repair injuries,” says this article. By printing out replacements for areas of damaged bone, the printed bone can act like “scaffolding,” or the cartilage model that bone uses to repair itself. Bone tissue grows over it and it [...]
In this article I read that California a law was recently passed so that nobody under the age of 18 are allowed to use a tanning bed unless their parents give them permission. Governor Jerry Brown signed the bill and it will go effect on 1 January.Skin cancer is rising in women between the ages [...]
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/238137.php “Italian authors carried out an updated meta-analysis on the relationship between wine, beer or spirit consumption and cardiovascular outcomes, using state-of-the-art statistical techniques. ” Drinking in European countries is very common, especially in countries like Italy. http://www.aim-digest.com/gateway/pages/brain/articles/cognitive%20function1.htm This article states that there is a clear relationship that states alcohol consumption and cardiovascular disease have [...]
Researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, and two Swiss institutions, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL) and the University of Lausanne have found that if they tweaked with the genome regulator (NCoR1) they would be able change the results of certain genes that might help certain diseases concerning muscle disorders. By genetically manipulating [...]
People’s hair stylists may act as their doctors. According to this article, people see their hairdressers more than their doctors. During a survey, hair stylists or dressers said that they sent at least one of their customers to go see a doctor, and more than a third have randomly checked their customer’s scalp. Because of [...]
Remember the Matrix? Where the machines took over and used all the humans as batteries? Yeah. That would never actually work – there’s no way to tap the power inside a body, and producing electricity the way the human body does – a reaction between sugar and oxygen – is just not powerful enough to run anything, [...]
