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Comment Re:Different bacteria in different parts of the wo (Score 1) 227

>And ulcers did eventually turn out to have a bacterial origin - so you just never know.
However, highlighting the odd relationship between bacteria and the human body some research now points to the fact that the drop in number of people infected with Heliobacter pylori is directly related to the increase in people suffering reflux as the bacteria helps regulate the strength of sotmach acid.
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So you do just never know...!
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Watching Brain Cells In Action 37

Roland Piquepaille writes "A Stanford University team has developed a microscope weighing only 1.1 grams. It is so small that it can be mounted to the head of a freely moving mouse to watch its brain cell activity. According to what the lead researcher told New Scientist, 'A lot of work has been done using brain slices, or anaesthetised animals — even using animals that are awake but restrained. But so far it has been impossible to image cellular-level activity in a freely moving mouse.' Not any more. And as mice are the 'preferred' animals in medical labs, this new kind of microscope could lead to new ways to study human diseases."

Comment Re:Link for the uninformed. (Score 5, Interesting) 538

Indeed. I remember an interview of his where he discussed his ideas around satellites. The amusing thing to him was in fact how wrong he had been. He had imagined them as (relatively) enourmous, crewed space stations. A limitation of the technology at the time he was envisaging them, where you only had unreliable vacuum tubes (or whatever they would have been) which needed constant replacing, and hence a human crew. Also a salutory lesson out there for all the people who like to predict what the future holds technology wise. It is just impossible to know what is going to come along out of the blue and knock your world view on its head.

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