Sleep Science awakens from deep slumber!
Sleep science was of little help in matters of sleep till late the reason being high cost associated with finding solutions. But as a ray of new light comes the IST project 'Sensation' which is a project of 46 partners from 20 different // countries, addressing sensing of physiological parameters, core computation, medical and industrial research. They aspire to develop a multipurpose sensing pla...Terry Wallis who is now 42 years old has been slightly unconscious and has recovered after a period of 20 years//. .. His nerves were completely sheared in a car crash and he was in a state of partial coma wherein he communicated with others by means of grunts and nods. But now his speech and movement were slowly improving. The doctors and researchers said that the tiny nerve connections in his...University of Pennsylvania researchers have shown in an animal study that a gene therapy used to restore retinal activity to the blind also restores function to the brain's visual centre , a critical component of seeing. ......Geoffrey K. Aguirre, Assistant Professor of Neurology at the university who led that multi-institutional study, feels that gene therapy can improve retinal, visual-pathway...