Can you help overeating.

There are some people who when asked" why do you so much? " they would answer I just can't help it. Turns out what they are may be true. Some scientists have discovered the exact connections in the brain that cause this hunger signal. If this discovery turns out to be true, people all over who have any eating disorder ( not just overeating) will be able to maintain a healthy eating habit. If there is way to help control this signal we could possibly turn America from obese to healthy.

Article link:  http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/09/130926142834.htm

Coma brain activity

We all know that if someone goes into a coma for to long they can become brain dead, which leaves their  families with difficult decision to make. Well as it turns out there may be some type of activity in the brains of patients in a deep coma. Some researchers from the University of Montreal of discovered oscillations of the hippocampus ( the part of the brain that is responsible for learning processes and memory) while performing an EEG on deep coma cats. The whole reason they started this research was because a doctor found these type of oscillations of one of his coma patients and didn't know how to explain them.

 Although they did find the oscillations, they said that families that have decided to unplug near brain dead relatives should not be mad at the doctors because this new discovery is no where near understood. As of now the criteria for labeling someone as "brain dead" is still the same. These researchers have just begun to scratch the surface of this discovery. It would be amazing if this discovery could lead to a way to reverse those patients that are labeled " brain dead", but as of now all we can do is wait and hope.

Article link: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/09/130918180246.htm

The new Terminator.

While looking at Science Daily an article talking about a new Terminator caught my eye. I thought for some reason they were talking about a new movie, but instead I discovered that it was talking about a new polymer that had been invented. They call this new polymer the Terminator due to its self healing ability, just like how in the Terminators do in the movies. Although a self healing polymer has been made before this new polymer is cheaper to make and has a 97% healing efficiency in about two hours. This new development can have a major effect not only in the medical world, but also in our everyday lives. Having products that could mend themselves would be amazing, but at the same time kind of freaky. This kind of technology leaves one to wonder if one day the technology could be transferred into human DNA. Would it be possible for people who have broken a bone or even lost a limb can heal themselves?
Read the article at http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/09/130913101819.htm

Tumor Growth.

A team of researchers from The Scripps Research Institue (TSRI) have discovered that a protein once thought to inhibit tumor growth is actually key to start the growth of a tumor. (http://www.news-medical.net/news/20130905/TSRI-scientists-discover-isoform-of-angiomotin-protein-responsible-for-tumorigenesis.aspx)  The discovery of the angiomotin protein being essential to tumor growth has changed both past and future studies of tumors. Many studies that have been done in the past have shown that angiomtin inhibits the Yes-associated protein (YAP), which helps prevent the growth of tumors.(http://genesdev.cshlp.org/content/25/1/51.full)
This new discovery will have a major affect on how researchers study tumors, and ultimately change the way doctors treat tumors. Studying the angiomotin protein can help researchers understand how to possibly stop tumor growth before it can spread.