Items tagged with Human

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Human Blood Vessels in Mice Monday, July 21st, 2008 - 14:17:49 - Ehud Rattner For the first time, researchers have successfully grown functional human blood vessels in mice using cells from adult human donors — an important... read more

Human-Like Hand Controlled by 'Brain' Saturday, July 19th, 2008 - 14:28:19 - Anuradha Menon A European research project has brought the dream of human-like robots closer to reality by creating a human-like arm and hand controlled by an... read more

Can We Build a Bionic Human? Saturday, July 5th, 2008 - 18:03:47 - Anuradha Menon More and more of the body is becoming, if not obsolete, then certainly replaceable. But which of our body parts can be engineered today, and which... read more

New Map IDs the Core of the Human Brain Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008 - 12:58:36 - Anuradha Menon An international team of researchers has created the first complete high-resolution map of how millions of neural fibers in the human cerebral cortex... read more

Canine Tooth Provides Historical Clues Monday, June 30th, 2008 - 12:16:57 - Ehud Rattner Measuring and testing the teeth of living primates could provide a window into the behavior of the earliest human ancestors, based on their... read more

Mutations May Make Humans Walk on All Fours Thursday, June 5th, 2008 - 14:19:57 - Ehud Rattner A mutated gene may have a role in a rare condition in which humans walk on all fours, researchers say. But precisely how mutations in this gene might... read more

Human Vision and Bird Vision Thursday, May 15th, 2008 - 18:24:41 - Ehud Rattner The most attractive male birds attract more females and as a result are most successful in terms of reproduction. This is the starting point of many... read more

Humans Nearly Wiped Out 70,000 Years Ago Friday, April 25th, 2008 - 22:11:29 - Sarah Gingichashvili Human beings may have had a brush with extinction 70,000 years ago, an extensive genetic study suggests. The human population at that time was... read more

Problems May Delay Human Moon Landing Friday, April 4th, 2008 - 14:37:15 - Iddo Genuth Uncertain planning and lack of adequate funding may keep an ambitious vision of taking people to the moon and Mars from ever seeing the light of day... read more

The (Shocked) Nose Knows Friday, March 28th, 2008 - 22:25:17 - Ehud Rattner Although they're staples of popular culture, Pavlov's dogs have nothing on the human nose. Scientists have shown for the first time that people can... read more

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