In the left corner, wearing the white coat, Dr. Qi-Long Ying!
Call it a Boxing Day breakthrough, research appearing in the December 26th issue of Cell could go down in history as a knockout event! For the first time, a group of scientists have derived rat embryonic stem cells, a finding that is likely to revolutionize [...]
Category Archives: Biology
Dec
26
2008
A Boxing Day “Knockout”
Nov
19
2008
Medicinal Aging?
Compounds similar to THC, the psychoactive ingredient in marijuana, have been shown to reduce memory impairments in the aging brain. While marijuana is widely known to impair memory in the short-term, leading scientists from Ohio State University are contradicting this age-old dogma by investigating how endocannabinoids, the brain’s naturally occurring cannabis, can improve memory function [...]
