The American Academy of Pediatrics has urged CBS Outdoor to take down the advertisement funded by anti-vaccine groups — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Astronauts on long space missions may not be able to take paracetamol to treat a headache or antibiotics to fight infection, a study has found.
Scientists at the Johnson Space Center have shown that the effectiveness of drugs declines more rapidly in space.
Continuous doses of radiation onboard spacecraft may be to blame, according to the study published in the AAPS Journal — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A new study presented at the European Association for the Study of the Liver in Berlin this month has renewed hopes for a possible cure for the hepatitis C virus (HCV) — via redwolf.newsvine.com
By asking a group of older adults to analyze videos of other people conversing — some talking truthfully, some insincerely — a group of scientists at the University of California, San Francisco has determined which areas of the brain govern a person’s ability to detect sarcasm and lies.
Some of the adults in the group were healthy, but many of the test subjects had neurodegenerative diseases that cause certain parts of the brain to deteriorate. The UCSF team mapped their brains using magnetic resonance imaging, MRI, which showed associations between the deteriorations of particular parts of the brain and the inability to detect insincere speech.
These patients cannot detect lies,
said UCSF neuropsychologist Katherine Rankin, PhD, a member of the UCSF Memory and Aging Center and the senior author of the study. This fact can help them be diagnosed earlier
— via redwolf.newsvine.com
A tiny sea mollusk uses eyes made of a calcium carbonate crystal to spot predators lurking above, researchers say of the first such rocky lenses found in the animal kingdom — via redwolf.newsvine.com
In a breakthrough that may aid treatment of learning impairments, strokes, tinnitus and chronic pain, UT Dallas researchers have found that brain nerve stimulation accelerates learning in laboratory tests.
Another major finding of the study, published in the April 14 issue of Neuron, involves the positive changes detected after stimulation and learning were complete. Researchers monitoring brain activity in rats found that brain responses eventually returned to their pre-stimulation state, but the animals could still perform the learned task. These findings have allowed researchers to better understand how the brain learns and encodes new skills — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A long-standing idea that human languages share universal features that are dictated by human brain structure has been cast into doubt.
A study reported in Nature has borrowed methods from evolutionary biology to trace the development of grammar in several language families.
The results suggest that features shared across language families evolved independently in each lineage — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The times are changing for European biologists who work with octopuses, squid and cuttlefish. A European Union (EU) regulation on animal experiments will soon make them familiar with the bureaucracy that is already the daily routine of those who experiment on monkeys and mice.
The EU directive on “the protection of animals used for scientific purposes”, which member states must incorporate into their national laws by January 2013, for the first time extends protections to cephalopods as well as vertebrate lab animals — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Juicy. Extremely Sweet. Visually attractive. Easy to peel. Low seeded. These are the fine qualities that mark KinnowLS
, the latest citrus variety released by researchers at the University of California, Riverside.
Large-sized for a mandarin, the fruit has an orange rind color. The rind is thin and extremely smooth. The 10-11 segments in each fruit are fleshy and deep orange in color — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Whales and dolphins aren’t the only marine creatures bothered by the increasing amount of undersea noise. The first study to detail the physical toll of low-frequency noise on cephalopods has revealed a surprising amount of trauma, according to a study published today in the journal Frontiers in Ecology and Environment.
In four separate species, noise exposure resulted in significant permanent damage in the statocyst, the fluid-filled structure in a cephalopod’s head responsible for helping the animal determine its position and maintain balance. Hair cells and nerve fibres in the statocyst were missing or damaged within 12 hours of noise exposure. And, in the worst cases, large holes were present immediately in the sensory epithelium of the statocyst—and became more pronounced 96 hours after noise exposure. The noise impact was acute and immediate, yet worsened over time — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Archaeologists in central London have uncovered a 16th century mass grave containing the remains of patients from the former St Bethlehem’s mental hospital, known as Bedlam — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The wolves of Isle Royale in Lake Superior have been studied by scientists for more than 50 years, but they’re still learning new tricks. The scientists discovered a new immigrant in the population by analyzing the genes in its poop.
The scientists, John Vucetich and Rolf Peterson, of Michigan Technological University, long thought that the wolves were an isolated group, because no other wolves could make it onto the island, located in Lake Superior. The wolf, called The Old Gray Guy
crossed an ice bridge onto the island in 1997.
Before this discovery, the Isle Royale wolf population had been considered completely isolated since it was founded in the late 1940s,
Vucetich said in a statement — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Embryonic stem cells from mice have been transformed into a rudimentary eye, raising hopes of growing parts of the human eye to investigate and treat blindness — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Metallic copper surfaces kill microbes on contact, decimating their populations, according to a paper in the February 2011 issue of the journal Applied and Environmental Microbiology. They do so literally in minutes, by causing massive membrane damage after about a minute’s exposure, says the study’s corresponding author, Gregor Grass of the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. This is the first study to demonstrate this mechanism of bacteriocide — via redwolf.newsvine.com
People with autism use their brains differently from other people, which may explain why some have extraordinary abilities to remember and draw objects in detail, according to new research.
University of Montreal scientists say in autistic people, the brain areas that deal with visual information are highly developed.
Other brain areas are less active — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The chemical which summons stem cells from bone marrow to the site of a wound has been discovered by scientists in the UK and Japan.
The study, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, identified the distress signal – HMGB1 — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A geologist sitting on a bush toilet in a remote part of the Northern Territory has discovered a potentially lucrative mineral discovered a potentially lucrative mineral deposit.
Rum Jungle Resources chief executive David Muller said the company was already looking for phosphate on a site near Barrow Creek, north of Alice Springs, but it was not expecting to find anything of value where it had set up its camp toilet — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Experts in Hanoi have captured a legendary giant turtle for medical treatment, a milestone in a case that has grabbed national attention and cast a spotlight on environmental degradation in Vietnam — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Angry ravens might kick and chase each other, but if they are close allies they make up afterwards.
Plenty of primates and other mammals reconcile after a conflict, but previously no birds were known to do so, says Orlaith Fraser of the University of Vienna in Austria — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Five more genes which increase the risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease have been identified, scientists say — via redwolf.newsvine.com
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