Tuesday, October 26, 2004

Tuesday

This week's issue of new@Nature seems to be full of results from IVF studies.. I wonder if it a seasonal thing?!

All these years we have blamed the wrong gene!

Looks like they need a new model for Down syndrome. Apparently new mice studies have found that chromosome 21 was not at fault. Think about all the biopsych books that need to be changed! :-)

Using Stem cells to hunt out Brain cancer

It is so interesting that so much stem cell research is coming out of Korea these days. I wonder even if the stem cell research ban gets resolved over the US presidential election, how long (or ever) would it take US to catch up?

New Brain Prosthesis developed

It looks like a neat way to reverse engineer a product, except we are reverse engineering brain tissue! Now if only they can make it so that we can all think smarter! I wonder if that would ever happen.. perhaps we can by parts to hot rod our brain from eBay some time in the future?