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Using DBS in severely brain-damaged patients may be a brand-new breakthrough, but the technology has already proved itself as a treatment for the tremors of Parkinson's disease, is nearing Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval for obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and is in clinical trials as a therapy for depression. Studies suggest it could also help control symptoms of Alzheimer's disease, dystonia--or paralytic muscle rigidity--epilepsy and even some addictions. "DBS is like a pacemaker for the brain," says Cleveland Clinic neurosurgeon Ali Rezai, who performed the operation on the brain-damaged man. "We pinpoint...
...Thailand, designed a 22-lb. (10 kg) shoelike prosthetic foot that is little more than a canvas sack filled with sawdust and held in place by a giant sling. It's not much, but as proof of the principle that such an appliance could work, it counted as a breakthrough...
Hwang Woo-Suk, the Korean scientist who gained international media attention for making fraudulent claims about cloning a human embryo, may have inadvertently made a significant breakthrough in stem cell research, a team of scientists led by a Harvard professor announced last week...
HSCI Scientific Director David T. Scadden said that while the research was unable to discover Hwang’s methods from his falsified paper, the fact that parthenogenesis is possible in humans is still a major breakthrough...
...rest of the characters are as admirably cast. His would-be love interest, Ginny Ryerson (Anna Kendrick, in a marvelous breakthrough performance), is the preppy perfectionist of the school debate team, whose ice-cold ambition drives her to do whatever is necessary to win. She convinces Hal to become her debate partner, and he jumps in headfirst, hoping to master love and public debate in the same sitting. Aaron Yoo nearly steals the movie as Hal’s curiously surreal friend Heston, who casts a strange otherworldliness that would put E.T. to shame. Despite his limited screen time...