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Thursday January 3, 2013 Daily edition   News and Blog Headlines Electric stimulation of brain releases powerful, opiate-like painkiller How to lose 50 years of aging in 16 days The slower you grow, the longer you live Why you should go paperless in 2013 How to watch chemo killing liver tumors in real time Latest News Electric stimulation of brain releases powerful, opiate-like painkiller January 3, 2013   Researchers used electricity on certain regions in the brain of a patient with chronic, severe facial pain to release an opiate-like substance that’s considered one of the body’s most powerful painkillers. The findings help explain what happens in the brain that decreases pain during the brief sessions of electricity, says Alexandre DaSilva, the senior researcher … more… How to lose 50 years of aging in 16 days January 3, 2013   Attention seniors: French scientists have developed a process that permanently dyes white hair without harmful chemicals. Philippe Walter and colleagues soaked white hairs in a solution containing fluorescent gold nanoparticles. The hairs turned pale yellow and then darkened to a deep brown. The color remained even after repeated washings. Using an electron microscope, the scientists … more… The slower you grow, the longer you live January 3, 2013   New research from the University of Glasgow suggests that lifespan is affected by the rate at which bodies grow early in life: manipulating growth rates in stickleback fish can extend their lifespan by nearly a third or reduce it by 15 percent. A team from the University’s Institute of Biodiversity, Animal Health and Comparative Medicine altered … more… Why you should go paperless in 2013 January 3, 2013   Are you still printing things out? Really? Amazingly, the average office worker still uses about 10,000 sheets of paper per year, the EPA says. To make a new push for a really paperless office, the “Paperless Coalition,” which includes Google Drive, HelloFax, Manilla, HelloSign, Expensify, Xero and Fujitsu ScanSnap, has launched a new campaign to … more… How to watch chemo killing liver tumors in real time January 3, 2013   Using two successive pairs of specialized CT scans, a team of Johns Hopkins and Dutch radiologists has produced real-time images of liver tumors dying from direct injection of anticancer drugs into the tumors and their surrounding blood vessels. Within a minute, the images showed whether the targeted chemotherapy did or did not choke off the … more… Visit KurzweilAI.net You are currently subscribed to the KurzweilAI.net newsletter as *|EMAIL|* To unsubscribe, please click here. To change your email preferences, please click here. *|LIST:ADDRESS|*.