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  1. SimonBurchell

    Brainworm

    This one is a bit yuck, from The Guardian , the linked article has pictures! ‘Oh my God’: live worm found in Australian woman’s brain in world-first discovery Woman complained of forgetfulness and depression before doctors pulled out an 8cm roundworm normally found in pythons It was a fairly...
  2. Swifty

    Organoid Mini Brain Grown In Lab

    Scientists at Cambridge have grown an organoid .. 'Scientists have grown a miniature brain in a dish with a spinal cord and muscles attached, an advance that promises to accelerate the study of conditions such as motor neurone disease. The lentil-sized grey blob of human brain cells were seen...
  3. kamalktk

    It Doesn't Even Look Like A Brain, Really

    A brain, minus the ridges and folds. http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21929340.100-is-this-the-most-extraordinary-human-brain-ever-seen.html#.Ujdxbj8QM42 ============== ONCE you know what it is, this apparently innocuous picture of a blob assumes a terrible gravity. It is an adult human...
  4. S

    Human Brain Size (& Evolution; Intelligence; Etc.)

    http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200608/s1704016.htm So nothing much has changed in the last 50 000 years... :P
  5. ramonmercado

    Inserting An Electrode Into One's Brain To Study Consciousness

  6. Mal_Adjusted

    Human Brain Result Of 'Extraordinarily Fast' Evolution

    Greets http://www.guardian.co.uk/life/science/story/0,12996,1380427,00.html mal
  7. S

    Cases Of Little Or No Brain; Unusually Small Or Partial Brains

    I've heard stories of mentally handicapped people having no more than a brain stem, and various horrible injuries sustained that necessitated the removal of large parts of the brain (ship worker crushed inbetween ship and dock, train worker having steel bar though noggin, lad having half brain...
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