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...generated stem cells by reprogramming adult skin cells - without using embryos - American researchers have managed to use that groundbreaking technique to achieve another scientific milestone. They created the first nerve cells from reprogrammed stem cells - an important demonstration of the potential power of stem-cell-based treatments to cure disease...
Still, the underlying question remains: are diet and exercise a reliable cure for obesity? Modern-day obesity researchers are skeptical - achieving thinness, they say, is not simply a matter of willpower. Research suggests that weight may largely be regulated by biology, which helps determine the body's "set point," a weight range of about 10 lbs. to 20 lbs. that the body tries hard to defend. The further you push you weight beyond your set point - either up or down the scale - some researchers say, the more your body struggles to return to it. That might help to explain...
...available on the Internet - new mothers sometimes use it to trigger the release of breast milk (and nearly half of all women who give birth in the U.S. intravenously receive Pitocin, a commercial version of oxytocin, to induce labor). But some entrepreneurs are already touting oxytocin as a shyness cure. One website hawks a "trust elixir," an oxytocin-laced perfume that its manufacturers say will make its wearers seem more trustworthy to others - and vice versa...
Oxytocin may be something of a wonder compound, spurring childbirth and creating love, but it's not exactly a performance enhancer and certainly not a cure-all - not for shyness or autism, or any other social dysfunction. "The nervous system is not just oxytocin. There are many other hormones that might be just as important as oxytocin that haven't been identified yet," Carter says. "A piece of social support is oxytocin. That doesn't mean that oxytocin alone equals social support...
...seemed, were eager to be done with divisive questions about Waldheim's Nazi past and to let the victorious candidate of the conservative People's Party get on with his job. It was soon apparent, however, that the analgesic effects of the decisive election would not be enough to cure Austria's headache. The very next day, Socialist Chancellor Fred Sinowatz unexpectedly resigned, vowing to devote himself to rebuilding his tattered party. His replacement: Finance Minister Franz Vranitzky. By midweek three more Socialist ministers had quit their posts, among them Foreign Minister Leopold Gratz, who refused to ''direct the Austrian...