Good mental health and clear thinking depend upon our ability to store and manipulate thoughts…
Month: February 2013
Fragile X makes brain cells talk too much
The most common inherited form of mental retardation and autism, fragile X syndrome, turns some…
Children with brain lesions able to use gestures important to language learning
Children with brain lesions suffered before or around the time of birth are able to…
Smoking cessation in old age: Less heart attacks and strokes within five years
Smokers increase their risk of myocardial infarction (heart attack) and stroke with every cigarette they…
Gains made towards treatment of rare bone disease
Diagnosed in toddlers, X-linked hypophosphatemia (XLH) is the most common form of heritable rickets, in…
Ultrahigh-definition TV: New Quad HD TV chip developed
It took only a few years for high-definition televisions to make the transition from high-priced…
Searching for the solar system’s chemical recipe
The ratio of isotopes in elements like oxygen, sulfur, and nitrogen were once thought to…
Molecules assemble in water, hint at origins of life
Researchers are exploring an alternate theory for the origin of RNA: they think the RNA…
Cure for common hangover? ‘Pill’ mimics action of human liver in fighting alcohol intoxication
In a discovery that could promise a quick fix to the common hangover, a team…
Self-healing protective coating for concrete
Scientists are reporting development of what they describe as the first self-healing protective coating for…