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		<title>Brain Blood Flow And Oxygen Monitored By First-Of-Its-Kind Head Patch</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 11:52:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A research team led by investigators at Mayo Clinic in Florida has found that a small device worn on a patient&#8217;s brow can be useful in monitoring stroke patients in the hospital. The device measures blood oxygen, similar to a pulse oximeter, which is clipped onto a finger.
Their study, published in Neurosurgical Focus, suggests this tool, known as frontal near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS), could offer hospital physicians a safe and cost-effective way to monitor patients who are being treated for a stroke, in real time.
&#8220;About one-third of stroke patients in the ...]]></description>
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		<title>Heartbeat Vibrations Power Pacemakers</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 11:51:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Though pacemakers require only small amounts of energy (about 1 millionth of a Watt), their batteries have to be replaced periodically, which means multiple surgeries for patients. Researchers have searched for ways to prolong battery life &#8211; trying to generate energy to power a pacemaker using blood sugar, or the motion of the hands and legs &#8211; but these methods either interfere with metabolism or require a more drastic surgery, such as passing a wire from the limbs to the chest area. Aerospace engineers from the University of Michigan in ...]]></description>
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		<title>Brain Activity Can Show Scientists Words We Are &#8220;Thinking&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 15:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A study conducted by researchers at the University of California, Berkley, and published in PLoS Biology reveals neuroscientists&#8217; new breakthrough research on how they will be able to understand the thoughts of patients without actually hearing them speak. This will be incredibly helpful when treating patients who are unable to speak after strokes, paralysis, or even possibly during comas.
Brian N. Pasley, a post-doctoral researcher and first author of the study says:
&#8220;This research is based on sounds a person actually hears, but to use it for reconstructing imagined conversations, these princicples ...]]></description>
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		<title>Scientists Transform Skin Cells Direct To Brain Cells, Bypassing Stem Cell Stage</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 15:38:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rukn2002</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bypassing the stem cell stage, researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine in California converted mouse skin cells directly into neural precursor cells, the cells that go on to form the three main types of cell in the brain and nervous system. They write about their findings in the 30 January early online issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
The findings of this and an earlier study question the idea that pluripotency (the ability to become virtually any other cell in the body, a key characteristic ...]]></description>
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		<title>Testicular zap &#8216;may stop sperm&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 13:06:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rukn2002</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A study on rats published in Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology showed that sound waves could be used to reduce sperm counts to levels that would cause infertility in humans.
Researchers described ultrasound as a &#8220;promising candidate&#8221; in contraception.
However, far more tests are required before it could be used.
The concept was first proposed in the 1970s, but is now being pursued by researchers at the University of North Carolina who won a grant from the Bill &#38; Melinda Gates Foundation.
They found that two, 15-minute doses &#8220;significantly reduced&#8221; the number of sperm-producing cells ...]]></description>
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		<title>Cloned Brain Cells Could Help MS, Parkinson’s, Depression Patients</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 13:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rukn2002</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the birthplace of Dolly the sheep comes another advancement in cloning, as scientists at Scotland’s University of Edinburgh have reportedly created brain tissue from patients suffering from mental illnesses.
According to NewsCore reports, researchers at the university’s Centre for Regenerative Medicine (CRM) have developed a method of taking a patient’s skin sample, turning it into stem cells, and then directing them to grow into brain cells. They then study those man-made brain cells hoping to learn more about patients suffering from ailments such as bipolar depression and schizophrenia.
“A patient’s neurons ...]]></description>
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		<title>Genes Influence Criminal Behavior According To Criminologist&#8217;s Research</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 14:01:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Your genes could be a strong predictor of whether you stray into a life of crime, according to a research paper co-written by UT Dallas criminologist Dr. J.C. Barnes.
&#8220;Examining the Genetic Underpinnings to Moffitt&#8217;s Developmental Taxonomy: A Behavior Genetic Analysis&#8221; detailed the study&#8217;s findings in a recent issue of Criminology. The paper was written with Dr. Kevin M. Beaver from Florida State University and Dr. Brian B. Boutwell at Sam Houston State University.
The study focused on whether genes are likely to cause a person to become a life-course persistent offender, ...]]></description>
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		<title>Bacteria Transplant Effective At Treating Bowel Infection</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 13:53:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Persistent bacterial infections can make a mess of our bowels and the usual treatment method of adding antibiotics usually causes even more disruptions. Researchers, however, are fine tuning a treatment that involves adding a sample of the stool of another which jump-starts the infected patients immune system, reports Kerry Grens for Reuters Health.
The procedure is used primarily to treat patients with infections from the bacterium Clostridium difficile. “It’s unbelievably effective,” said Dr. Neil Stollman, who was not involved in this research, but who has reported similar success using colonoscopy to ...]]></description>
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		<title>Promising Results In First-ever Trial Of Stem Cell Therapy For The Blind</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 13:11:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rukn2002</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Scientists have improved the eyesight of two people who were nearly blind by injecting their eyes with stem cells from human embryos.
One patient, a 51-year-old graphic artist, had suffered from Stargardt’s disease, the most common form of macular degeneration in young patients, since she was a teenager.  Her condition had progressively worsened to the point she was unable to read a single letter on a standard eye chart and was legally blind.
A second patient, aged 78, suffered from dry macular degeneration, the leading cause of blindness in the elderly, and ...]]></description>
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		<title>Same Mechanism As For DNA Employed As Protein Networks Stabilize Muscle Fibers</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 15:37:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The same mechanism that stabilises the DNA in the cell nucleus is also important for the structure and function of vertebrate muscle cells. This has been established by RUB-researchers led by Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Linke (Institute of Physiology) in cooperation with American and German colleagues. An enzyme attaches a methyl group to the protein Hsp90, which then forms a complex with the muscle protein titin. When the researchers disrupted this protein network through genetic manipulation in zebrafish the muscle structure partly disintegrated. The scientists have thus shown that methylation also ...]]></description>
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