Items tagged with body

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Cell Invasion Caught on Camera Thursday, October 15th, 2009 - 10:02:21 - Anuradha Menon Despite being surrounded by a supposedly unbreachable defensive line, the body's central nervous system can still be attacked by autoimmune diseases... read more

Adult Brain Can Change Within Seconds Wednesday, July 15th, 2009 - 10:49:38 - Anuradha Menon The human brain can adapt to changing demands even in adulthood, but MIT neuroscientists have now found evidence of it changing with unsuspected... read more

Matter Over Mind Thursday, July 9th, 2009 - 09:05:28 - Anuradha Menon A new study suggests activities combining movement and force tax our brains to capacity, countering a long-held belief that difficulty with dexterous... 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

Armpits Are 'Rain Forests' for Bacteria Saturday, May 30th, 2009 - 10:25:16 - Anuradha Menon Long considered a source of odor and embarrassment, the humble armpit may be coming up in the world. On the microbial level, a person's underarms are... read more

'Beating' Heart Machine Expedites Research Wednesday, May 13th, 2009 - 18:46:00 - Anuradha Menon A new machine developed at North Carolina State University makes an animal heart pump much like a live heart after it has been removed from the... read more

MRSA's 'Weak Point' Visualised by Scientists Friday, January 23rd, 2009 - 16:39:57 - Anuradha Menon An enzyme that lives in MRSA and helps the dangerous bacterium to grow and spread infection through the human body has been visualised for the first... read more

Baffling the Body into Accepting Transplants Friday, January 23rd, 2009 - 12:05:38 - Anuradha Menon An unexpected discovery made by a Sydney scientist has potential to alter the body's response to anything it perceives as not ‘self’, such as a... read more

Young Blood Fights Cancer Saturday, January 17th, 2009 - 18:12:03 - Anuradha Menon Recent research by Tel Aviv University finds that young blood does a body good as well, especially when it comes when fighting cancer. The TAU... read more

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