Row over study puts Korea's scientific community under scrutiny again
... one of the most powerful players in the country's struggle for biotech supremacy, writes journalist Jonathan Gornall. It is also threatening to disrupt Korea's efforts to recover scientific credibility in the wake of the recent scandal over Woo-Sok Hwang's stem cell research. Dr Kim claims a paper about p...A 'traffic light' for neurons means 'go' for improving brain research
...of circuits. At this fundamental level, scientists struggle to explain the mind. Worse yet, they have lacked tools to understand what's going wrong in patients with ailments such as depression or Parkinson's disease. New Stanford-led research published in the April 5 issue of Nature describes a technique to d...Helium helps patients breathe easier
...h this disorder. People with severe COPD typically struggle for every breath while exercising and any improvements that could be made to their ability to perform exercise could have significant clinical implications. The results of the study were published recently in the American Journal of Respiratory C......to their right frontal lobe following a stroke may struggle in everyday situations which require attention to be switched flexibly from one thing to another. ‘This study highlighted the role that the right-hand side of the brain has in keeping track of our own actions and helping us to notice when we have ...