People who are at risk for a certain form of colon and other types of…
Month: August 2011
New treatment approach for Alzheimer’s disease: Researchers plan to use specialized cells of the immune system
A research team has documented how the immune system can counteract the advancement of Alzheimer’s…
Speaking and listening share large part of brain infrastructure
What areas of the brain are involved in the linguistic processes underlying speech and listening…
Carbon nanotube structures changed by ‘attack’ from within, researchers discover
A team of researchers has shown for the first time that chemical reactions at the…
Practice makes perfect: Competitive Scrabble players push the boundaries of accepted visual word recognition
Word recognition behavior can be fine-tuned by experience and practice, according to a new study…
A mold on which to create new parts of the puzzle that is the nervous system
Nervous system diseases are especially difficult to treat, as it is not easy to replace…
UK man using two cell phones while driving at 70mph given ban (Digital Trends)
Digital Trends – All the talk about the hazards of using a cell phone while…
Broken Thumb Apps pays out $50k to FTC for violating children’s privacy (Digital Trends)
Digital Trends – Broken Thumb Appsâ parent company W3 Innovations has been forced to pay…
Facebook page reunites mother and daughter after 63 years (Digital Trends)
Digital Trends – When Helen Torres was 17 years old in 1948, she became pregnant and…
Company creates DVD format made to last 1000 years (Digital Trends)
Digital Trends – When a traditional optical disc is created, information is copied onto the…