Brain/Neuroscience
Celltex v. the FDA: Do patients have a right to use their own stem cells for unproven treatments?
By classifying stem cells as drugs, regulations from the FDA have prompted Celltex, a Texas-based company that stores and multiplies ...
Stem cell-based bioartificial tissues and organs
The following is an excerpt. Surgeon Paolo Macchiarini has made his name by successfully transplanting bioengineered stem cell-based trachea, composed ...
FDA approves bionic eye for adults with rare genetic disease
The following is an excerpt. For most of us, light-sensitive cells that line our retinas convert light rays into electrical ...
The problem with the bioscience industry (video)
The following is an excerpt. Hilary Rose, co-author of Genes, Cells and Brains, argues that we should treat the medical claims ...
Bionic eyes may soon be available in the U.S.
For people with retinitis pigmentosa -- a rare genetic disease that damages cells in the back of the eye -- ...
First genomic explanation for schizophrenia proposed
The following is an excerpt. In a new study, Buffalo University geneticists have demonstrated how defects in an important neurological ...
Genome sequencing reveals driving mutations behind common brain tumor
The following is an excerpt. Large-scale genomic sequencing has identified two DNA mutations that appear to drive about 15 percent ...
Scientists look to burrowing mice to understand genetics of instinct
A recent study in Nature reveals that the complex burrowing behavior of two sister species of mice is controlled by ...
Autism and genetics: It’s complicated
The latest news in autism and genetics, courtesy of Laura Blue writing at Time Healthland: In one of the largest-ever ...
Human enhancement could turn soldiers into weapons that violate international law
Memory-erasing drugs to ward off PTSD; co-opting the physiology of dolphins and sled-dogs to work all week without sleep few ...
Could a dopamine gene be the key to longer life?
A gene linked to attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and addiction might also help you live to be 100. A study ...
Risk genes show up in newborns’ brain scans
Brain scans of newborns show the same brain changes that appear in adults with gene variants linked to Alzheimer’s, schizophrenia, ...
Personality-influencing gene may be a key to long life
The human genome is like a roadmap for the body, but our understanding of the road signs that point some ...
Gene determines how much of a “reward” people get from booze
One in six U.S. adults binge-drinks four times a month, consuming an average of eight drinks per session, according to ...
Evolution may contradict ‘dumb jock’ notion
According to a popular stereotype, intellectual achievement and athleticism are inversely linked. Now a controversial view of evolution suggests that ...
Gene therapy extends lives of children with brain disease
Children born with a rare, genetic brain disorder that causes severe atrophy and often leads to death within three years, ...
Restless genes: How the human compulsion to explore is a defining part of human success
What drove us out from Africa and on to the moon and beyond? If an urge to explore rises in us ...
Cells from human urine used to make stem cells
Biologists in China have published a study detailing how they transformed common cells found in human urine into neural stem ...
Drag-and-drop DNA builds cancer-combating drug
A drug has been developed to combat a lethal brain cancer using a drag-and-drop DNA-self assembly technique. A team from Parabon Nanolabs ...
Short DNA strands may be key to understanding human cognition and diseases
Short snippets of DNA found in human brain tissue provide new insight into human cognitive function and risk for developing ...
Stem cells help paralyzed dog to walk again
Daily MailDogs paralysed by spine damage are able to walk again following pioneering ...Daily MailEarlier tests on paralysed rats showed ...
Brain gene separates humans from apes
An international team of researchers have discovered a new gene that helps explain how humans evolved from apes. Scientists say ...
Mutations that accelerate neural development linked to autism spectrum disorder
Neurodevelopmental disorders such as intellectual disability and autism spectrum disorders are marked by mutations that impair signaling between neurons. These ...
Genetic data may be double-edged sword
Another heavyweight addresses the concerns of the burgeoning era of personal medicine: Nancy Andrews, Dean of Medicine at Duke University, ...
Political correctness alert: Science literacy collapses when male/female genetics are debated
The difficulty in discussing what everyone intuitively knows—males and females are genetically programmed to respond differently, emotionally and intellectually, to ...
Human brains: Could we transfer the mind to other devices?
There is no reason why the complex information processing at the core of human experience -- consciousness, the mind -- ...
Why I don’t want to know my genome sequence
PLoS Blogs (blog)Why I Don't Want to Know My Genome SequencePLoS Blogs (blog)The quest to know ourselves by our DNA ...
