How Stem Cells Are Changing the Way We Think About Disease

How Stem Cells Are Changing the Way We Think About Disease

If you don't know too much about stem cells, this TIME article gives you a good idea of where the technology is at now and how it can evolve to solve most medical problems.

Bonobos: Hippies of the jungle

Peaceful bonobos may have something to teach humans


Humans share 98.7 percent of our DNA with chimpanzees, but we share one important similarity with one species of chimp, the common chimpanzee, that we don't share with the other, the bonobo. That similarity is violence. While humans and the common chimpanzee wage war and kill each other, bonobos do not. "There has never been a recorded case in captivity or in the wild of a bonobo killing another bonobo," notes anthropologist Brian Hare.

Science Rhyme Time: A little exercise everyday can cause aging to delay

Regular exercise can delay the aging process

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of Canadian scientists working with mice genetically modified to age twice as fast as normal has found regular exercise keeps them young.

You might want to think twice before deciding to run a marathon...

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/03/09/when-exercise-is-too-much-of-a-good-thing/?nl=health&emc=healthupdateema11


Exercise is indisputably good for your health. But some recent studies suggest that it's also possible to do too much of a good thing.

Can a magazine with one subscriber survive? Absolutely!

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704758904576188621188047068.html

Each morning, the President of the United States gets briefed on the day's news by some of the smartest advisers around. The rest of us aren't so lucky. We have to sift through newspapers, magazines and websites to find out what's going on around us. Now, thanks to a free iPad app called Zite, the news-gathering process may get a lot easier for those of us who aren't leaders of the free world.

A new iPad app called Zite crawls the Web and uses your social network and online reading behavior to cull reading material you might like. WSJ's Katie Boehret compares this app to the similar Flipboard app.

Zite, by a Vancouver company of the same name, crawls over half a million Web domains to find specific reading material that would be of interest to you, according to your social network and/or online reading behavior. It evaluates this potential content by tracking signals (like tweets, comments, tags and sharing) from stories that indicate a certain level of social interest and momentum in the story. The result is a personalized magazine that gets more accurately targeted toward its reader the more it's used.

A light-and-heat combo makes for a great infrared sauna experience (& a way to track cancer and deliver drugs)

Organic nanoparticle uses sound and heat to find and treat tumors

Scientists have created an organic nanoparticle that is non-toxic, biodegradable, and nimble in the way it uses light and heat to treat cancer and deliver drugs, says principal investigator Dr. Gang Zheng, Senior Scientist, Ontario Cancer Institute (OCI) at Princess Margaret Hospital.

Personal health care...there's an app for that

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/01/technology/01iht-srhealth01.html?_r=1

For more and more people, computers and software are becoming a critical part of their health care.

Thanks to an array of small devices and applications for smartphones that gather vital health information and store it electronically, consumers can take a more active role in managing their own care, often treating chronic illnesses — and preventing acute ones — without the direct aid of a physician.