Paralysis Treatment
Hydrogel tubes made to bridge severed spinal cords encourage regrowth
Tourette’s Treatment
Nicotine patches can cut the medicine needed for Tourette's, reducing devastating side effects.
Mad Cow Cure
Antibodies that stop the prions of mad cow disease could help BSE and other prion diseases
Reading in the Dark
Can reading in the dark hurt your eyes? (yep, can cause myopia, especially if you're under 25)
Aging Genes
Gene expression changes negatively as we age, but in rats, cutting calories reverses some of those changes.
Steady Cam
Measuring how people hold limbs steady to unlock the secrets of tremors.
Lizard Spit
Spit from the Gila Monster could help diabetics stabilize their blood sugar levels
Laser Nerve Treatment
New laser treatment could replace common root canal
Myelin Transplant
Transplanting Schwann cells into the brain to treat multiple sclerosis
Navajo Bones
Traditional foods provide elderly Navajos with adequate calcium for strong bones.
Friendly Microbes
Bacteria in your gut change how your genes express themselves, making it easier for other friendly microbes to enter and affecting your physiology as well.
Seasonal Fat
Studying how hamsters gain and lose weight so quickly may teach us more about how humans can do it, too.
Fixing Diabetes
In mice, diabetes type 1 can be cured by killing off the cells that murder islets and educating other cells not to kill islets. The islets make a full recovery and the disease is gone.
Glowing Wounds
Civil War wounds that glowed meant that infection was staved off-- new research shows how p. luminescens bacteria saved the lives of soldiers.
Dad’s Hormones
First-time dads experience changes in their hormone levels, similar to, though not to the same degree, as new moms.
Intestine Rejection
Irradiating intestines before transplant can prevent rejection
Brain Drain
When you think, you drain the glucose from the brain area you are using.
Infecting Tumors
How infections may be a good way to stop cancer tumors by stopping angiogenesis.
Selenium and the Flu
In selenium-deprived mice, the flu virus can mutate into a deadlier form, later causing worse infections in both selenium deficient and selenium adequate mice.
Aspirin and Transplants
How aspirin can be used to prevent organ rejection by weakening immune cells that cause it.
Baby Taste Test
Babies get their first taste of native foods from their mother in the womb and in breast milk, and prefer those tastes later.
New Heart Muscle
Putting leg cells in the heart may help it to heal after heart attack