Eye Size
Does the eye get bigger as we get older? (yes, but it's already 65 percent of adult size at birth)
Stroke Bacteria
The bacterium that causes stomach ulcers also appears to put people at risk for strokes.
Cancer Spread
A protein that's crucial to the immune system also helps cancer spread through the body.
Cavity-Fighting Bacteria
Bacteria used to ferment milk can also prevent harmful bacteria from sticking around inside the body
Storms, Beer and Blood
Predicting tropical cyclones, a powder that stops bleeding, and freeze-dried beer flavoring.
Nervous Stomach – rerun #2593
Why does your stomach get upset when you're nervous? (tension in stomach muscle, just like you can get a tension headache-- a muscle spasm)
Wound-Healing Bandage
A bandage helps promote healing without scarring.
Anthrax Antibodies
Protein antibodies against the anthrax toxin may prevent illness from infection
Headache Prevention
Injected into specific muscles, Botox prevents migraines and chronic headaches
Blood Cell Delivery
A new technique to use red blood cells to deliver medications
Melanoma Resistance
The mechanism that allows skin cells to survive UV exposure to make melanin may make those same skin cells harder to treat should they turn cancerous.
Bone Healing
Cox-2 inhibiting NSAIDS can slow down or stop bone healing (in rats and mice)
Ginseng Berries
The ginseng berry has a high concentration of a compound that lessens symptoms of diabetes.
Aluminum & Alzheimer’s
Can aluminum cause Alzheimer's disease? (current evidence says no)
Alcoholic Lungs
Heavy drinking lowers antioxidant level in lungs-- causing lung complications if injured or sick
Kidney Transplants
A new protocol that allows doctors to transplant patients who have problematic antibodies -- allowing transplant of organs from different blood types, and patients who've had pregnancies, or received donated blood or organs
Bacteria Breath Test
A breath test for h. pylori just as effective as endoscoy for diagnosing possible ulcers
Cold Virus vs. Cancer
Targetting cancer with a genetically-modified cold virus
Color Blindness
Is color blindness in your brain or in your eyes? - eyes (physically missing a set, pigment, of light receptors)
Fly Stress Test
A stress test for fruit flies helps provide clues to the genetics of heart disease.
Cooling Headaches
A method to stop migraines by cooling down an area of the mouth.
Therapeutic Eggs
The first steps in genetically engineering chickens to produce protein-based medicines in eggs