Some people, like my mother for example, think that tea can cure or do anything. Have an upset stomach? Have some soothing tea. Broke your arm? Oh dear, just have some of this tea. Road rash head to toe? Oh, just have a little tea, it will fix you right up. Well according to new […]
Forgetting is something that many of us worry about as we get older. Then we start to wonder if we are getting Alzheimer’s disease or something else. Relax. It probably isn’t Alzheimer’s, but the natural way our brain ages. The brain cells called neurons lose their connections between each other that can cause long term […]
What if there was a way to look at individual brain cells and how they work. Not only how they work but the behavior that they cause? Neuroscience researchers at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and Stanford University are making truly remarkable advances with the help of state of the art technology and […]
Amazing new video of blood stem cells taking root may help cancer patients, people with blood diseases, and improve bone marrow transplants. The video, from Harvard School of Medicine, shows blood stem cells budding off from the aorta in zebra fish. They then take a whirl around the body via the circulatory system until the […]