Brain Guardians Remove Dying Neurons

Brain Guardians Remove Dying Neurons

LA JOLLA--By adolescence, your brain already contains most of the neurons that you'll have for the rest of your life. But a few regions continue to grow new nerve cells--and require the services of…
Behemoth Black Hole Found In An Unlikely Place

Behemoth Black Hole Found In An Unlikely Place

Astronomers have uncovered one of the biggest supermassive black holes, with the mass of 17 billion Suns, in an unlikely place: the centre of a galaxy that lies in a quiet backwater of the Universe.…
Xenotransplantation: Pig Hearts In Baboons

Xenotransplantation: Pig Hearts In Baboons

Could organs explanted from other mammals save human lives someday? A new study shows that genetically modified pig hearts developed by US and Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) in Munich…