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Obesity's Cellular Traffic Jam
Obesity's Cellular Traffic Jam
Research in mice reveals why brain cells become deaf to appetite-suppressing signals.
The Year in Biomedicine
The Year in Biomedicine
Brain trauma among soldiers, a $5,000 genome, cellular switches, and insight into the brain's beauty.
Magnetic Depression Treatment
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Magnetic Depression Treatment
Caffeine Detector
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Our Past Within Us
The new field known as archeogenetics is illuminating prehistory.
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Recession-Resistant Medicine
Novel medical treatments thrive as investors get cautious.
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Spinning Silk into Sensors
A simple process turns cocoons into optical devices with biological applications.
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Philips iPill
A tiny device delivers drugs exactly where they're needed.
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Interpreting the Genome
New technologies will soon make it possible to sequence thousands of human genomes. Now comes the hard part: understanding all the data.
A Way to Spot Cancer Early
A prototype device employs the same magnetic phenomenon used to write data to computer hard drives.
Nanotubes Track Cellular Toxins
Tiny sensors can monitor cancer-causing agents and chemotherapy drugs in cells.
New Ways to Boost Memory
Enhancing neuron gene expression may improve memory.
Cancer, Carefully Illuminated
A new imaging probe brings live cancer cells into sharp relief.
Diagnosing Disease with Paper and Tape
By adding tape, researchers can make more-complex tests that are portable and cheap.
Broad Use of Brain Boosters?
Use of drugs to enhance memory and concentration should be permitted, experts say.
Greener Glass
Bacteria could make acrylic glass from sugar.
Drug Trials for Autism
Treatments are being tested for three inherited forms.
Making an Old Brain Young
Scientists are developing new ways to manipulate the brain's normal plasticity.
Improving Prenatal Testing
A DNA chip could make it easier to diagnose rare conditions while the patient is still in utero.
How Cells Age
Parallels between mice and yeast uncover a potentially universal aging mechanism.

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A Simpler Way to Report Drug Side Effects
How to Spot Stem Cell Snake Oil
Unconventional-Weapons Warnings from Obama Advisors
An Appetite Suppressant in Time for Turkey Day
The Future of Health Care
How to Grow New Eyes
The Latest Brain Research
New Treatments for Brain Injury
Cooling the Brain
Bone-Marrow Transplant Appears to Halt HIV

News from Around the Web

Super stethoscope
How FBI technology is driving a medical advance
Observatory: To Assist in Fusion, Researchers Arrange for Cells to Meet Cells
New technology may make cell fusion, which is an important tool in biological and biomedical research, more efficient.
Bending the President's Ear
A science adviser is only as effective as the president wants him to be, say the men who have held the job since Sputnik.
Hope of insulin cell transplant
Scientists working towards pancreatic cell transplants as a cure for diabetes have taken the first step to getting around the problem of immune rejection
Text checks
How medics can monitor mental health by text

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