Researchers Use Brain Scans To Reveal Hidden Dreamscape
Scientists say they have found a way to get a glimpse of people's dreams."Our results show that we can predict what a person's seeing during dreams," says Yukiyasu Kamitani, a researcher at the ATR...
View ArticleHow Much Does It Hurt? Let's Scan Your Brain
Scientists reported Wednesday that they had developed a way to measure how much pain people are experiencing by scanning their brains.The researchers hope the technique will help doctors treat pain...
View ArticleGut Bacteria's Belch May Play A Role In Heart Disease
Scientists have discovered what may be an important new risk factor for heart disease.
View ArticleScientists Clone Human Embryos To Make Stem Cells
Scientists say they have, for the first time, cloned human embryos capable of producing embryonic stem cells.The accomplishment is a long-sought step toward harnessing the potential power of embryonic...
View ArticleResearch Reveals Yeasty Beasts Living On Our Skin
Scientists have completed an unusual survey: a census of the fungi that inhabit different places on our skin. It's part of a big scientific push to better understand the microbes that live in and on...
View ArticleProposed Changes In Organ Donation Stir Debate
The nation's organ transplant network will consider a controversial proposal Monday to overhaul the guidelines for an increasingly common form of organ donation.The board of directors of the United...
View ArticleScientists Grow A Simple, Human Liver In A Petri Dish
Japanese scientists have cracked open a freaky new chapter in the sci-fi-meets-stem-cells era. A group in Yokohama reported it has grown a primitive liver in a petri dish using a person's skin...
View ArticleBrains Of Dying Rats Yield Clues About Near-Death Experiences
A burst of brain activity just after the heart stops may be the cause of so-called near-death experiences, scientists say.The insight comes from research involving nine lab rats whose brains were...
View ArticleDiverse Gut Microbes, A Trim Waistline And Health Go Together
Scientists have discovered new clues about how microbes in our digestive systems may affect health.European researchers found that the less diverse those microbes are, the more likely people are to...
View ArticleCould Detectives Use Microbes To Solve Murders?
In the woods outside Huntsville, Texas, scientists are trying to determine whether they can use the microbes that live on the human body as microscopic witnesses that could help catch criminals.It's a...
View ArticleGetting Your Microbes Analyzed Raises Big Privacy Issues
After spending months working on a series of stories about the trillions of friendly microbes that live in and on our bodies, I decided it might be interesting to explore my own microbiome.So I pulled...
View ArticleCan Probiotics Help Soothe Colicky Babies?
When Melissa Shenewa and her husband imagined their first weeks with their new baby, they pictured hours of cuddling. Instead, they're enduring hours of inconsolable crying.Their 6-week-old son,...
View ArticleScientists Question Safety Of Genetically Altering Human Eggs
A panel of government advisers has expressed serious concerns about a controversial proposal to allow scientists to try to make babies using eggs that have been genetically altered to include DNA from...
View ArticleGenetic Sequencing May Not Be Ready To Become Routine
Transcript ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: This is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News. I'm Robert Siegel.MELISSA BLOCK, HOST: And I'm Melissa Block.Getting your entire genetic code deciphered is the cutting edge...
View Article'Provocative' Research Turns Skin Cells Into Sperm
Scientists reported Thursday they had figured out a way to make primitive human sperm out of skin cells, an advance that could someday help infertile men have children."I probably get 200 emails a year...
View ArticleKeep Or Kill Last Lab Stocks Of Smallpox? Time To Decide, Says WHO
The World Health Organization is revisiting a question that's been the subject of intense debate for decades: whether to destroy the only known samples of the smallpox virus.The World Health Assembly,...
View ArticleResearcher Urges Wider Genetic Screening For Breast Cancer
A prominent scientist has started a big new debate about breast cancer. Geneticist Mary-Claire King of the University of Washington, who identified the first breast cancer gene, is recommending that...
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'Inner GPS' Discovery Wins Nobel Prize In Medicine
Copyright 2014 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.Transcript RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Its Nobel Prize season. In Stockholm this week, Nobel officials will announce winners in the natural sciences...
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Study Finds Human Stem Cells May Help To Treat Patients
Copyright 2014 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.Transcript AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: For the first time ever, scientists are reporting that human embryonic stem cells may be helping treat patients.
View ArticleBig Zika Virus Outbreak Unlikely In The U.S., Officials Say
The outbreak of Zika virus in Brazil and other countries has raised concern that the pathogen could start spreading widely in the United States, as well. But federal health officials and other...
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