JHU researcher discovers brain cells have 'memory'

JHU researcher discovers brain cells have 'memory'

As we look at the world around us, images flicker into our brains like so many disparate pixels on a computer screen that change every time our eyes move, which is several times a second. Yet we don'…
Global Payments Reports Third Quarter Earnings

Global Payments Reports Third Quarter Earnings

ATLANTA, April 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Global Payments Inc. (NYSE: GPN) today announced results for its fiscal third quarter ended February 28, 2009. For the third quarter, revenues grew 26% to US$392.7…
Epigenetic What?

Epigenetic What?

The other day I posted on my FaceBook profile that I better hurry up to finish my presentation on epigenetic inheritance. One of my friends commented: “I have no idea what that means, but good luck…
Healing heart attack victims, one cell at a time

Healing heart attack victims, one cell at a time

LIVERMORE, Calif. -- By using the amount of carbon 14 in the atmosphere from above-ground nuclear testing in the 1950s and 1960, researchers have determined that cells in the human heart develop into…