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Stem Cell Breakthrough: Creating Stable, Self-Renewing Neural Stem Cells

A recently released paper on April 25 had big news for stem cell researchers. Published in the online edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences by researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, the Gladstone Institutes in San Francisco. “It’s a big step forward,” said Kang Zhang, MD, PhD, [...]

CERN Smashing Particles at Record Intensity

The CERN Physics and Research Center in Geneva is where the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) resides. One of its purposes in finding the “mysteries of the universe”, among others, is to replicate the Big Bang. Friday they released a report that they had been smashing particles together at a record intensity in a key advance [...]

Alcohol: Good For the Brain

In my idea for a new ad campaign for alcohol, which frankly is half truths and downright lies at times, we discover that alcohol helps your brain. How? Subconscious memory. “Usually, when we talk about learning and memory, we’re talking about conscious memory,” says Morikawa, whose results were published last month in The Journal of [...]

“Naked” Penguins?

Nope…this isn’t a new Batman porn. Apparently there is a condition called feather-loss disorder that is afflicting baby penguins in the South Atlantic. This gets closer and closer to an article from The Onion every sentence…lol A study on the disorder appears in a recent edition of the journal Waterbirds. The authors of the paper [...]

Unique Father’s Day Gift Ideas

Dad is probably a lot harder to shop for on Father’s Day than mom is on Mother’s Day. Dad just doesn’t typically make a big fuss about it all, and a card usually is sufficient for the day, or a phone call. Finding unique fathers day gift ideas isn’t something most of us put a [...]