Neuro News Nanos

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Here are this morning’s:

* RAGE GENE FOUND — Is there an anger gene? — Researchers identify gene responsible for regulating anger.

* Man and machine — A novel implant seeded with muscle cells could better integrate prosthetic limbs with the body — tiny cups, made from an electrically conductive polymer, that fit on nerve endings and attract the severed nerves

* A mouse gets to play the coolest videogame in the world… for science — “team designed an apparatus in which a mouse, its head firmly held in a metal helmet, walks on the surface of a styrofoam ball” — “The ball is kept aloft by a jet of air, so that it functions like a multidirectional treadmill.”

* Colombian guerrillas teach us about the neuroscience of literacy — men more used to holding a gun than a pencil — scanning their brains as they learn to read

* Does the vaccine matter? — there is little immediate danger from getting a seasonal flu shot, aside from a sore arm and mild flu-like symptoms — but vaccines and antivirals must be viewed as only partial and uncertain defenses against the flu

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