Laboratory-grown vaginas implanted in patients(Is it strange of me to automatically think 'This is going to be very helpful for trans women'? I know gender-reassignment surgery already works, but, as the article says, vaginal construction surgery as it stands now has a very high chance of complications. Apparently these vaginas are much closer to ( Read more... )

So they've found a way to reverse (some form of) female infertility by switching off a junk-damaged-eggs gene.

Iiiiiiiiiiiiiii don't know if this is really the best thing. Stinks of a "THIS IS GOING TO BITE US IN THE ASS LATER" stratagem. ...Wait and see, I guess.

Killing melanoma by cutting off its (glucose) food supply
Zombie cancer cells eat ( Read more... )

“Psychopathy is probably the most pleasant-feeling of all the mental disorders,” says the journalist Jon Ronson, whose book, The Psychopath Test, explored the concept of psychopathy and the mental health industry in general. “All of the things that keep you good, morally good, are painful things: guilt, remorse, empathy.”
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Well ( Read more... )

Smokers' brains biased against negative images of smokingWhat's next? "Liberals' brains biased against negative depictions of liberalism"? "Conservatives' brains biased against negative depictions of conservatism"? "Gourmets' brains biased against negative images of food"? "Athletes' brains biased against negative images of sports ( Read more... )

In-Progress RunsMy Silver Randomlocke:
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Researchers discover idling brain activity in severely brain-injured patients who "wake up" after using Ambien
Stuck on flu: How a sugar-rich mucus barrier traps the virus-and it gets free to infect
Imaging the magnetically stimulated brain
Social symptoms in autistic children may be caused by hyper-connected neurons
Psychiatry professor takes new ( Read more... )

Free logic-puzzles site. Good for a brief distraction.

Also, I haven't given you guys MedicalXpress links for a while... let's fix that.

Staph infections and eczema: What's the connection?
(*sourly* This is now relevant to my interests.)
Mind over gray matter: Placebo improves both pleasure and pain
How video gaming can be beneficial for the brain
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There is a Higher Power, and It is a troll.
World record solar cell with 44.7% efficiency (the record last year was 37.7% - progress!)

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I'm thinking that the reporter is taking an optimistic interpretation, but...

Responding to a list of questions published in the paper by Mr Scalfari, who is not a Roman Catholic, Francis wrote: “You ask me if the God of the Christians forgives those who don’t believe and who don’t seek the faith. I start by saying - and this is the fundamental ( Read more... )

Video games do not make vulnerable teens more violent, study says
Do men and women really look for different things in a romantic partner? (...Ehem. Out of curiosity, is this study on males and females in general or HETEROSEXUAL males and females? Inquiring minds...)

By the way, Autostraddle lists Carmilla as a trashy lesbian romance. ...Accurate ( Read more... )