HELSINKI — A team of Arctic researchers from Denmark say they accidentally discovered what they believe is the world’s northernmost island located off Greenland’s coast. The scientists from the University of Copenhagen initially thought they had arrived at Oodaaq, an island discovered by a Danish survey team in 1978, to collect samples during an expedition… Read More »
Breadcrumb Trail Links News Health Canada ‘One treatment for my disease makes it more likely that I will become a gambler’ Author of the article: Joseph Brean E. Fuller Torrey is a research psychiatrist and expert on schizophrenia who calls Parkinson’s disease, from which he personally suffers, the “weirdest disease” known to medicine. Photo by… Read More »
Scientists have discovered that humans have an innate or “salamander-like” ability to regenerate cartilage, which could lead to treatments for diseases such as osteoarthritis — and possibly provide a starting point for human limb regeneration. Published on Oct. 9 in Science Advances, researchers from Duke University in North Carolina and Sweden’s Lund University began by… Read More »