‘Double, double toil and trouble; fire burn, and cauldron bubble’ chant the three witches in the cavern, lightening flashing outside, in Act 4, Scene 1 of Shakespeare’s Macbeth. It’s images like these, conjured up by the great …
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Traditional Chinese medicine: Eye of newt and toe of frog
Posted by Nic Rawlence on December 9th, 2017
How babies learn to walk holds potential clues to autism
Posted by Jim Dryden-WUSTL on December 8th, 2017
“Our findings may allow us to identify the brain regions and networks that can predict aspects of autism before it’s possible to make a clinical diagnosis.”
Posted in Biology, Health, Science General 
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No Comments »Med students aren’t learning enough about marijuana
Posted by Jim Dryden-WUSTL on September 15th, 2017
Medical marijuana is legal in more and more US states, but medical education is lagging.
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Posted by Chuck Bednar on September 8th, 2017
Researchers from the University of Texas at Austin have developed a new pen-like device that could allow doctors to more quickly and accurately identify and remove tumors during surgery, allowing them to distinguish between cancerous and healthy cells in as little as 10 seconds. Described in a study published in a recent edition of the […]
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Posted in Health Tags: according, accurate, analyze, austin, Breast, Cancer, cancerous, detect, device, diagnostic, different, during surgery, eberlin, explained, growing, healthy, healthy tissue, Human Tissue, Human Tissue Samples, improve, instrument, little, masspec, Medicine, molecular, normal, patient, precise, proved, really, remove, Researcher, samples, Scientist, seconds, Spectrometer, surgery, Technology, that’s, tissue, Tissue Samples, Tissues, Tumors No Comments »View NIH’s Inaugural Behavioral and Social Science Festival
Posted by Social Science Space on December 20th, 2016
The U.S. National Institutes of Health debuted its NIH Behavioral and Social Sciences Research Festival on December 2, an event which focused on research underway in the past year.
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