Light Drinking During Pregnancy May Benefit Baby
Women who drink a glass of wine once a week throughout their pregnancy may not be harming their unborn children.
Researchers at University College London found boys born to light drinkers get higher scores in vocabulary tests.
Girls are also thought to benefit, with researchers finding 30 percent of those born to light drinkers are less likely [...]
Understanding Immunosuppressive Viruses
Researchers were able to observe the direct actions of an immunosuppressive virus in a living organism for the first time, using unsuspecting mice once again. The animals were inoculated with the lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus, which acts by virtually shutting down the host’s immune system completely, thus opening the door for new infections to occur, which [...]
New Possible Treatment for Coma
A new medical experiment aimed at increasing the awareness level comatose patients are in showed promising results after 26-year-old Josh Villa, who suffered terrible brain damage in a car accident in 2005, started exhibiting consciousness symptoms after a number of therapy sessions, carried out with a device called a transcranial magnetic stimulator (TMS). This piece [...]
The Brain Sees What the Eyes Don’t
For quite a while now, some people with various degrees of vision loss claimed they could feel a certain object around them, even if they couldn’t actually see it. This phenomenon was dubbed “blindsight” and doctors have been trying to find a reasonable, scientific explanation for it over the past few years. Now, Japanese scientists [...]
New Possible Cure for Diabetes
Mice came through for researchers once again, revealing the original stem cells that eventually evolve into fat cells. According to the experiment, mice lacking normal fat tissues can be given such a tissue by implementing them with these newly-found stem cells. Scientists at the Rockefeller University (RU) have been trying to separate this class of [...]
