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January 30, 2008
Category: The Human Body
Andrea Gawrylewski from "The Scientist" has written a nice blog post describing new research that addresses whether adult brains learn by neurogenesis (the birth of new neurons). In the blog she writes: While researchers agree that the birth of...
Posted by Karen Ventii at 11:06 PM • 6 Comments •
January 28, 2008
Category: Sports & Medicine
This weekend I attended the NHL All-Star game in Atlanta and was impressed to learn about the Hockey Fights Cancer program. Hockey Fights Cancer is a joint initiative founded in December 1998 by the National Hockey League and the...
Posted by Karen Ventii at 10:25 PM • 5 Comments •
January 23, 2008
Category: The Human Body
New research from the University of Bristol shows that by suppressing one of the genes that normally switches on in wound cells, wounds can heal faster and reduce scarring. This has major implications not just for wound victims but...
Posted by Karen Ventii at 6:46 PM • 3 Comments •
January 16, 2008
Category: Health
Men develop liver cancer at twice the rate of women in the United States, according to the American Cancer Society. Considering that the liver is a non-reproductive organ, this is quite a difference. A research team led by Dr....
Posted by Karen Ventii at 11:53 PM • 1 Comments •
January 15, 2008
Category: Blogging
Suzanne E. Franks of Thus Spake Zuska and I are hosting a panel this coming weekend at the NC Science Blogging Conference, and we'd like your input. The title of the panel is "Gender and Race in Science Blogging". For...
Posted by Karen Ventii at 2:06 AM • 4 Comments •
January 4, 2008
Category: Food Science
A poll by BBC World and market research firm Synovate aimed at assessing global attitudes towards food found that the UK is ahead of the US as the world's leading fast food nation. How will an increase in consumption of...
Posted by Karen Ventii at 7:46 PM • 9 Comments •
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