Health & Medicine
Molecular duo dictate weight and energy levels
01 Mar 2012
New discoveries on depression
29 Feb 2012
DNA nanorobot-targeted therapeutic responses
28 Feb 2012
Researchers have developed a robotic device made from DNA that could potentially seek out specific cancer cells and cause them to self-destruct
"Popeye" proteins help the heart adapt to stress
27 Feb 2012
Engineers create wireless, self-propelled medical device
By By Andrew Myers | 25 Feb 2012
For 50 years, scientists searched for the secret to making tiny implantable devices that could travel through the bloodstream. Engineers at Stanford have demonstrated just such a device. Powered without wires or batteries, it can propel itself though the bloodstream and is small enough to fit through blood vessels.
Old antibiotic could be a new weapon to fight TB
17 Feb 2012
UCSD uses heat energy to fix odd heart beat
17 Feb 2012
FDA-approved non-surgical technology uses heat energy, or radio frequency waves, to irreversibly alter heart tissue that trigger an abnormal heart rhythm or atrial fibrillation
Complexities in caregiving at the end of life
15 Feb 2012
New cases of rare genetic disorder identified
15 Feb 2012
Neuron memory key to taming chronic pain
14 Feb 2012
Exercise triggers stem cells in muscle
11 Feb 2012
Scientists decode brain waves to eavesdrop on what we hear
By By Robert Sanders | 03 Feb 2012
Neuroscientists may one day be able to hear the imagined speech of a patient unable to speak due to stroke or paralysis, according to University of California, Berkeley, researchers.