On the Neuroscience front, Scientific American reports that damage to the vetromedial prefrontal cortex (VMPC), a region of the brain that deals with emotional responses may make serious moral choices easier.
Researchers confronted volunteers with moral scenarios and found that those with VMPC injure were three times more likely than healthy people to advocate throwing the [...]
New Zealand scientists hit the jackpot with a mutant cow that produces low-fat milk naturally. Yes, you heard that right! The cow which apparently suffered a natural gene mutation is capable of producing milk with only 1% fat; that would be 3.5 times less fat than whole milk. In addition, the milk is also high [...]
NASA’s twin rovers Spirit and Opportunity are still going strong in their mission to explore the surface of Mars more than 3 years since the mission started. The rovers were initially designed to last 3 months but the engineers did a wonderful job building these machines such that the two rovers have outlived their original [...]
As genomic information piles up at an exponential rate, sorting through it all has become overwhelming. In the hopes that with enough eyes, breakthroughs will materialize, the Swiss drug company Novartis has helped create a free and open database on the genetics of type 2 diabetes. Posted at
www.broad.mit.edu/diabetes, the Diabetes Genetics Initiative is a collaboration [...]
