Healthy living can turn our cells’ clock back / telomeres regrow
00:01 17 September 2013 by Andy Coghlan Healthy living can reverse the telltale signs of ageing in your cells. The finding relates to telomeres, the caps that protect the…
Leaked report to the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) shows we may be headed for Global Cooling
Global warming? No, actually we're cooling, claim scientists A cold Arctic summer has led to a record increase in the ice cap, leading experts to predict a period of global…
Aging really is ‘in your head’
Scientists answer hotly debated questions about how calorie restriction delays aging process September 3, 2013 By Lee Phillion Among scientists, the role of proteins called sirtuins in enhancing…
Existence of new element confirmed
Contact: Dirk Rudolph Dirk.Rudolph@nuclear.lu.se 46-462-227-633 Lund University An international team of researchers, led by physicists from Lund University, have confirmed the existence of what is considered a new element with…
Long-term memory in the cortex
Contact: Mazahir T. Hasan mazahir.t.hasan@gmail.com 49-304-505-39176 Max-Planck-Gesellschaft 'Where' and 'how' memories are encoded in a nervous system is one of the most challenging questions in biological research. The formation and…
Art preserves skills despite onset of vascular dementia in ‘remarkable’ case of a Canadian sculptor
Contact: Susan Yellin s_yellin@rogers.com 416-789-4567 St. Michael's Hospital TORONTO, Aug. 22, 2013—The ability to draw spontaneously as well as from memory may be preserved in the brains of artists long…
A virus changes its stripes / human outbreak of eastern equine encephalitis
Contact: Jim Kelly jpkelly@utmb.edu 409-772-8791 University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston Outbreak in Panama brought Latin America's first human cases of eastern equine encephalitis In the summer of 2010,…
There’s life after radiation for brain cells
Contact: Stephanie Desmon sdesmon1@jhmi.edu 410-955-8665 Johns Hopkins Medicine Johns Hopkins researchers suggest neural stem cells may regenerate after anti-cancer treatment Scientists have long believed that healthy brain cells, once damaged…
It all started with a bang, but the universe may not be expanding after all
Theoretical physicist Christof Wetterich publishes paper 'a Universe without expansion' Heather Saul Tuesday, 13 August 2013 A theoretical physicist looks set to disrupt textbook concepts of cosmology, after producing a…
Cellphone use may not cause more car crashes / Cellphone legislation did not result in less
Contact: Shilo Rea shilo@cmu.edu 412-268-6094 Carnegie Mellon University Carnegie Mellon research shows cellphone use may not cause more car crashes PITTSBURGH—For almost 20 years, it has been a wide-held belief…
Back from the Dead – Resuscitation Expert Says End Is Reversible
Raising the dead may soon become medical reality. According to critical care physician Sam Parnia, modern resuscitation science will soon allow doctors to reanimate people up to 24 hours after…
Never-before-seen GIANT virus found that’s so unusual it may have come from Mars
The Pandoravirus is one micrometre big - ten times the size of other viruses It is found underwater but is not considered a threat to humans The virus has been…
New theory uncovers cancer’s deep evolutionary roots / Cancer is realated to embryo development
Contact: Skip Derra skip.derra@asu.edu 480-965-4823 Arizona State University Tracing cancer back to the dawn of multicellularity could explain its mysterious properties and transform therapyTEMPE, Ariz. -- A new way to look…
UC Davis MIND Institute researchers find exposure to maternal antibodies affects behavior
Contact: Phyllis Brown phyllis.brown@ucdmc.ucdavis.edu 916-734-9023 University of California - Davis Health System Researchers identify risk factor for autism in a subset of children: Maternal Antibody-Related autism Researchers with the UC…
Meet the small yellow worm that can REGROW its own head – and its old memories
If the planarian worm's head is cut off it can regenerate a new one Scientists have found this new head contains memories from the old one This suggests memories are…
Study appears to overturn prevailing view of how the brain is wired
New research in rats shows how brain layers work NEW YORK, NY (June 27, 2013) — A series of studies conducted by Randy Bruno, PhD, and Christine Constantinople, PhD, of…
Infections increase risk of mood disorders
Contact: Michael Eriksen Benrós benros@ncrr.dk 45-26-25-52-39 Aarhus University New research shows that every third person who is diagnosed for the first time with a mood disorder has been admitted to…
Time to re-write the textbooks: British scientists discover a new part of the human body – hidden deep in the eye
Nottingham researchers found the new layer - which is just 0.001 mm thick - within the cornea, the clear window at the front of the eye Called 'Dua's Layer', it…
Tumors disable immune cells by using up sugar
Contact: Michael C. Purdy purdym@wustl.edu 314-286-0122 Washington University School of Medicine Cancer cells' appetite for sugar may have serious consequences for immune cell function, researchers at Washington University School of…
No idle chatter: Study finds malaria parasites ‘talk’ to each other – It Changes everything
Contact: Liz Williams williams@wehi.edu.au 61-405-279-095 Walter and Eliza Hall Institute Melbourne scientists have made the surprise discovery that malaria parasites can 'talk' to each other – a social behaviour to…
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