News: The future of brain interfaces Posted by Edyta Zielinska [Entry posted at 18th November 2008 04:48 PM GMT] We're writing a feature to check in on scientists working on bridging the gap between brain and machine. We're planning on asking them, "What's taking so long?" When I think of brain-machine interfaces, a couple of things come to mind: The Borg ... Click to continue View comments (18) | Comment on this news story News: From lizard claw to mammal hair? Posted by Edyta Zielinska [Entry posted at 10th November 2008 10:53 PM GMT] Mammalian hair has a surprising evolutionary origin, according to a study published in PNAS this week: the reptilian claw. Evolutionary biologists have long conjectured about the origin of hair -- did this defining mammalian characteristic ... Click to continue View comment (1) | Comment on this news story News: New tool sheds light on cell imaging Posted by Edyta Zielinska [Entry posted at 10th November 2008 10:13 PM GMT] In the same way it's hard to see the Milky Way in a major city, researchers sometimes struggle to see tagged structures because of natural background light emitted by cells. In this week's Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, ... Click to continue View comments (3) | Comment on this news story News: Weight loss drugs scrapped Posted by Edyta Zielinska [Entry posted at 7th November 2008 05:07 PM GMT] Sanofi-Aventis announced this week that it would discontinue clinical trials of its anti-obesity drug, Acomplia. The decision followed similar moves by Pfizer and Merck, who also recently abandoned development of similar weight loss drugs. Why is ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Frozen mouse cloned Posted by Edyta Zielinska [Entry posted at 4th November 2008 03:42 PM GMT] While restoring dinosaurs from preserved mosquitoes remains as scientifically implausible as it was when the hit science fiction film Jurassic Park was made in 1993, the possibility of cloning the ... Click to continue View comments (3) | Comment on this news story

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