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Facebook Beats Books - and Faces - in Memory Test
Business & EconomicsIf this were a Facebook post, you would remember it – better than a stranger’s face or a line from a published book.
Surgical Technique Spots Cancer Invasion with Fluorescence
Health & BehaviorA team of surgeons and scientists at University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have developed a new technique that will allow surgeons to identify during surgery which lymph nodes are cancerous so that healthy tissue can be saved. The findings will be published in the January 15 print edition of Cancer Research.
Regulating Single Protein Prompts Fibroblasts to Become Neurons
Health & BehaviorRepression of a single protein in ordinary fibroblasts is sufficient to directly convert the cells into functional neurons. The findings, which could have far-reaching implications for the development of new treatments for neurodegenerative diseases like Huntington’s, Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s, will be published online in advance of the January 17 issue of the journal Cell.
Next Steps in Potential Stem Cell Therapy for Diabetes
Health & BehaviorResearchers from the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, collaborating with scientists from San Diego-based biotech company ViaCyte, Inc., looked at the differences and similarities between two types of hESC-derived endocrine cell populations and primary human endocrine cells, with the longer-term goal of developing new stem cell therapies for diabetes.
Making of Modern World Lecture Series to Focus on What It Means to Be Musical
HumanitiesWhat makes music musical? Why is music such a potent form of expression? And how does the human brain respond to music? A series of talks by UC San Diego faculty will answer these questions and more in the free lectures series “The Making of the Modern World: To Be Musical,” to be held Jan. 9 to Feb. 27.
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