Archives for February 2009
Protein reverses Alzheimer’s brain damage
10 February 2009 | Interesting | No Comments
Injections of a natural growth factor into the brains of mice, rats and monkeys offers hope of preventing or reversing the earliest impacts of Alzheimer’s disease on memory. The benefits arose even in animals whose brains contained the hallmark plaques that clog up the brains of patients.
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HIV Mutates to Death With New Drug
10 February 2009 | Interesting | No Comments
HIV is notorious for its ability to mutate and evade drugs designed to destroy it. Now scientists are testing a new drug that actually speeds up that rate of change in the hope that the deadly virus will mutate itself to death.
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Kissing feels so pleasurable due to hormone surge: research
10 February 2009 | Interesting | No Comments
The reason that kissing feels so pleasurable is that sparks a surge of hormones in our brains, according to new research.
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Study Suggests Why Gut Instincts Work
10 February 2009 | Interesting | No Comments
After conducting some unique memory and recognition tests, while also recording subjects’ brain waves, scientists conclude that some gut feelings are not just guesswork after all. Rather, we access memories we aren’t even aware we have.
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Extinct ibex is resurrected by cloning
1 February 2009 | Interesting | No Comments
An extinct animal has been brought back to life for the first time after being cloned from frozen tissue.
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