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Published on
8/24/2009 de Catalin Mosoia, Bucharest, Romania
in categories: Science and politics,Astronomy,Chemistry,Medicine,Personalia,Space,Science and sport
Cancer. Obesity. Robot. Astronomy and peace. Premier League.
Life and comet. These are the keywords for the week that has just
passed.
Published on
3/17/2009 de Gabriella Ficz, Cambridge, UK
in categories: Science communication,Biology,Chemistry,Genetics,Medicine,Personalia
It has always been known that a good mother-child contact leads
to healthier and happier babies and adults. But what would happen
if we knew that early life nurturing affects our genes and can
leave life long imprints in our genome? This is a research focus of
Patrick McGowan and his colleagues at the Douglas Mental Health
University Institute in Montreal, Canada, who found that suicide
victims with a history of childhood abuse are more prone to carry
stable chemical modification on their DNA that will cause impaired
response to stress later in life, published in a recent volume of
Nature Neuroscience (McGowan et al., 2009).
Published on
3/14/2009 de Catalin Mosoia, Bucharest, Romania
in categories: Physics,Medicine,Personalia,Science and religion
Scientists in the US used brain imaging techniques to localize
the areas in the human brain that are activated when thinking about
God and religion. The results suggest that specific
components of religious beliefs are mediated by known brain
networks. What techniques helped researchers to reach to this
conclusion and if we are close to an instrument for measuring
religious belief are just few of the questions discussed with
Dimitrios Kapogiannis, first author of research that was published
in PNAS.