Items tagged with Human

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Sperm-Like Cells Made from Human Stem Cells Wednesday, July 8th, 2009 - 12:20:22 - Anuradha Menon Human embryonic stem cells have been coaxed into forming sperm-like cells, researchers report today. The cells have some of the hallmarks of sperm —... read more

A Limb Regeneration Mystery Solved Saturday, July 4th, 2009 - 09:02:57 - Anuradha Menon Salamanders have an enviable ability to regrow appendages that are amputated or injured; they re-create all the bones, muscle, skin, blood vessels... read more

An Alternative Way to Make Stem Cells Wednesday, July 1st, 2009 - 14:12:39 - Anuradha Menon iZumi Bio, is pursuing a technology as new and full of promise as the lab itself--a technology that's moving faster than the company can fill its... read more

Learn How We Think About Others from Blind Saturday, June 27th, 2009 - 09:01:12 - Anuradha Menon Human beings constantly make inferences about other people's state of mind, usually without even realizing they are doing it. Cognitive scientists... read more

Orangutans May Be The Closest Human Relative Thursday, June 25th, 2009 - 14:22:23 - Anuradha Menon Orangutans, not chimpanzees, are the closest living relatives to humans, a controversial new study contends. The authors base their conclusion on a... read more

A Stem-Cell Therapy for Blindness Thursday, June 18th, 2009 - 14:28:36 - Anuradha Menon An experimental therapy using human embryonic stem cells to treat degenerative eye diseases has proved safe and effective in animal studies, and may... read more

Did Basket Weaving Teach Humans to Count? Monday, June 8th, 2009 - 14:02:49 - Ehud Rattner Did animals teach us one of the oldest forms of human technology? Did this technology contribute to our ability to count? These are just two of the... read more

Genetically Modified Mice Yield Breast Milk Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009 - 18:00:31 - Anuradha Menon An experimental farm in Russia could soon be producing human breast milk substitutes following successful milking trials on mice, scientists report... read more

TV-Watching Tots Miss Out on Vital Chat Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009 - 17:58:21 - Ehud Rattner No wonder Americans call television the "boob tube". Infants vocalize less and hear fewer words from nearby adults when the TV is on, a new study of... read more

Earliest Evidence for Pottery Making Found Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009 - 16:06:10 - Ehud Rattner Shards of pottery dating back 18,000 years have been unearthed in a cave in Hunan province, southern China. The manufacture of ceramic pots and other... read more

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