Even though the brain makes up about two percent of the body it consumes up to 20% of the energy needed to power through the day. Just how neurons and mitochondria, the powerhouse of the cell, generate energy is the latest research that employs special imaging technique to view the process. Mice helped researchers at […]
Two thousand-the number of taste buds on the human tongue; tiny little sensors that tell us if we have salty, sweet, sour and umami flavored foods. Just how we distinguish taste is the subject of recent research at the Australian National University. With an imaging technique called intravital multiphoton microscopy, researchers used an infrared laser […]
The blood brain barrier (BBB) is a fortress to protect our brain. It necessarily rejects unwanted molecules that may be toxic to the brain. That protection comes at a cost. Sometimes medicines that can be beneficial cannot make it through the gate. Now researchers at the University of Montreal have developed a way that can […]
Exciting news from the world of imaging! MRI just might be able to discern cancer cells from non-cancer cells. Researchers at Johns Hopkins have been studying cancer cells in-vitro (in a petri dish) and in mice to see if their detection method works. They have taken advantage of particular biology, in four different types of […]
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 […]
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 […]