Items tagged with body

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Memory Trick Shows Brain Organization Sunday, August 31st, 2008 - 20:54:34 - Anuradha Menon A simple memory trick has helped show UC Davis researchers how an area of the brain called the perirhinal cortex can contribute to forming memories... read more

Bone that Blends into Tendons Sunday, August 31st, 2008 - 12:28:58 - Anuradha Menon Engineers at Georgia Tech have used skin cells to create artificial bones that mimic the ability of natural bone to blend into other tissues such as... read more

Nano-Sized 'Trojan Horse' to Aid Nutrition Friday, August 29th, 2008 - 12:20:54 - Anuradha Menon Researchers from Monash University have designed a nano-sized 'trojan horse' particle to ensure healing antioxidants can be better absorbed by the... read more

Balanced Bodies Are More Attractive Wednesday, August 20th, 2008 - 10:05:58 - Ehud Rattner With two hands, two legs, and two sides of the brain, humans are clearly bilateral beings. But bilateral doesn't mean perfectly symmetrical: One... read more

Flesh-Eating Bacteria Attacks Immune System Friday, August 15th, 2008 - 10:03:21 - Anuradha Menon 'Flesh-eating' or 'Strep' bacteria are able to survive and spread in the body by degrading a key immune defense molecule, according to researchers at... read more

Using Salmonella to Administer Vaccines Friday, July 11th, 2008 - 08:05:39 - Anuradha Menon Researchers at the Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University have made a major step forward in their work to develop a biologically engineered... read more

Magnet-Controlled Camera in the Body Saturday, July 5th, 2008 - 20:00:35 - Anuradha Menon Images from inside the body? It can be done with tiny cameras which the patient has to swallow. In the past there was no way of controlling the... 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

Can People Regenerate Body Parts? Monday, March 17th, 2008 - 10:47:02 - Ehud Rattner A salamander’s limbs are smaller and a bit slimier than those of most people, but otherwise they are not that different from their human... read more

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