Medicine News

Hearing the Light

A breakthrough in the way laser light interacts with nerve cells could greatly improve the quality of hearing for people who require cochlea implants. ...

Music to make your heart sing

Listening to your favourite, feel-good music might not only put you in a great mood but it could also be good for your heart.  Researchers from the Un...

Flu clue to pandemic potential

Analysis of one of the genes in the H5N1 flu virus, which is viewed as the best contender for the next pandemic, has shed new light on the virus's awesome virulence. ...

Famine makes genes hungry for life

Scientists have uncovered the first clear genetic evidence linking low birthweight and maternal malnutrition and subsequent ill-health. Writing in this week's PNAS Leiden Universit...

Grow your own prostate

Researchers have discovered a stem cell that can recreate a prostate from scratch. ...

Rotten eggs regulate blood pressure

As the childhood saying goes, “he who smelt it, dealt it”, and we’re all familiar with that unpleasant whiff of rotten eggs, the ‘pleasant’ perfume released by breaking wind. This ...

The ST-E-Card

Doctors have developed a new technique with which to tackle the problem of sexually transmitted infections (STIs). At the moment when a patient is diagnos...

Warm coffee warms the heart

Here at the Naked Scientists we’re all pretty warm-hearted people, but now researchers at Yale University have shown that it might be down to our choice of drinks rather than our n...

9000 Year Old TB

Researchers sequence oldest traces of TB from a 9000 year old victim and her child - Writing in this week's PLoS One, scientists working amongst a series of buried settlements in I...

I think therefore I move

Scientists have developed a system that offers patients paralysed by spinal injuries the prospect of regaining the ability to move. ...