Morning News Run
June 11, 2007 by Liz Lewis
Filed under Morning News
Arizona TB Patient Jailed as a Public Health Menace – NPR (Audio & Copy)
Andrew Speaker, the Atlanta lawyer who flew to Europe and back against medical advice, is not the only American with drug-resistant tuberculosis.
A Step Toward a Living, Learning Memory Chip – Scientific American
Researchers at Tel Aviv University in Israel have demonstrated that neurons cultured outside the brain can be imprinted with multiple rudimentary memories that persist for days without interfering with or wiping out others.
Scientists warn new EU rules threaten MRI scans – Reuters
New European Union safety rules, designed to safeguard workers, would jeopardize the use of MRI scanners in hospitals, leading scientists said on Monday. The European Society of Radiology said new scientific evidence showed the limits set in the EU Physical Agents Directive were impractical, since they would be routinely exceeded by workers close to magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanners.
Alzheimer’s Disease To Quadruple Worldwide By 2050 – Science Daily
More than 26 million people worldwide were estimated to be living with Alzheimer’s disease in 2006, according to a study led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. The researchers also concluded the global prevalence of Alzheimer’s disease will grow to more than 106 million by 2050.
Researchers evolve a protein to extend fly life spans – Ars Technica
The researchers converted the sequence of the RNA into DNA, and inserted it into the Drosophila genome. Expression of the evolved protein extended the mean lifespan of flies by 38 percent, and the maximum lifespan by 26 percent. In short, the researchers evolved an anti-aging peptide.
